About Tangent
Tangent connects Wikipedia articles as you read. Pick a starting point, then follow the links to another topic. Each article shows how you got there.
It's a reading toy, not a destination: no feed to clear, no streak to keep. Wander until something catches, then tangent off it.
Where the writing comes from
Every article, summary, and image is drawn live from Wikipedia. Article text is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Tangent shows excerpts and reformats them for reading, and every card links back to its source article on Wikipedia, where you'll find the full text and the list of authors. Images come from Wikimedia Commons under their own individual licenses. Open any image on Wikipedia for its specific terms.
Tangent is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation or Wikipedia.
Accounts & privacy
Tangent works fully without an account. The interests that tune your feed and the trail you leave live in your browser by default, and you can wipe them anytime from the interests panel. There are no ads and no tracking cookies; any usage Tangent measures is anonymous and aggregate, never tied to you.
Signing in is optional. When you sign in with an email link, a one-time code, or a passkey, Tangent stores your email, a synced copy of that interests list, and any passkeys you add, so your feed can follow you across devices. Deleting your account erases all of it. The specifics are in the Terms & Privacy.
The fine print
Tangent is free and provided as-is, with no warranty of any kind. Article content reflects Wikipedia at the moment you load it; its accuracy, completeness, and tone are Wikipedia's, not ours. Use it at your own discretion, and the project may change or go offline at any time. The full Terms & Privacy cover the rest.
Open source
Tangent is open source under the MIT license. Read the code, file an issue, or fork it on GitHub.