The White-winged Apalis is a small East African bird with black upperparts, yellow underparts and white wings. It searches for insects in the canopy and along forest edges.
It is about 15 cm long. It has black upperparts, golden-yellow underparts, white wing panels, a white throat and a black breast-band. Females are paler and lack the breast-band.
It gleans insects from leaves and twigs in the canopy and at forest edges. It is most frequent in tall, wet forest and also uses riparian strips, generally below 1,600 m but recorded up to 2,000 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.