We do not provide an official Kiwix App for Synology NAS, but thanks to our friend Anton here’s a simple how-to to get it working without the need for Docker:

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1. On your Synology, go to Package Center > Settings > Package Sources > Add and add the following:
Name: SynoCommunity
Location: packages.synocommunity.com/

A screenshot of the package settings panel

2. You will now find Kiwix under the Community tab. Click Install.

A screenshot of the community tab showing Kiwix

3. Download a .zim file from library.kiwix.org/

4. Put the .zim file in the /kiwix-share folder that got created during the installation of Kiwix.

5. Open up port 22 on your Synology NAS by enabling the SSH service in Control Panel > Terminal & SNMP, then SSH into it with the following command:
(ssh username@ipaddressofyoursynology)


and then run this command:
kiwix-manage /volume1/kiwix-share/library.xml add /volume1/kiwix-share/wikipedia_en_100_2024-06.zim (replace with the name of your file)
A screenshot of the Terminal & SNMP panel
It is good to close port 22 again when you’re done.

Restart Kiwix and browse to the address of your Synology NAS and port 8092. For example: http://192.168.1.100:8092

From there on it is all yours to install and run any content from the Kiwix library that you like!