bLADE Wiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. ikiwiki vs. UseMod

General Features bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki UseMod
Version
3.4.9
N/A
2.67
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2008-11-10 (17 years ago)
N/A
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-11-21 (17 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
Dale Lane
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
N/A
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
C#
N/A
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Files
N/A
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Users wanting to be able to view/edit their wiki from a mobile phone or PDA, with a simple wiki that needs almost no setup
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Anyone
Hosting Features bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki UseMod
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki UseMod
Operating System
Windows, Windows Mobile
N/A
Any
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Any, or none
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
.NET 2 Framework
N/A
Datastorage bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki UseMod
Text Files
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
N/A
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
No
No
Oracle
No
N/A
No
No
SQLite
No
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
RCS
No
N/A
Yes
No
Other
N/A
No
Security/Anti-Spam bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki UseMod
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
No
N/A
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
Unknown
No
Patch
Blacklist
No
Unknown
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
N/A
No
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki UseMod
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki UseMod
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
0
1
English
1
English
0
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
No
Flat
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
N/A
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Links bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki UseMod
CamelCase
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki UseMod
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Usability bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki UseMod
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Statistics bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki UseMod
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
Plugin
Patch
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
No
Output bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki UseMod
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Image Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki UseMod
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki UseMod
Internal Link
[Link to a page]
[[internal]]
External Link
[http://www.linkme.com]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
+Heading
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
*bold text*
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
=italic text=
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
Underline Format
_underlined text_
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
[|code sample|]
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough text-
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
N/A
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[$image.jpg$]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
N/A
Text Indentation
> blockquote text
: indented
Bulleted Lists
- bulleted
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# numbered
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
___
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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