bLADE Wiki vs. Sputnik vs. BrainKeeper vs. ikiwiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki TiddlyWiki
Version
3.4.9
8.08.13
N/A
2.67
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2008-11-10 (17 years ago)
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
N/A
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-11-21 (17 years ago)
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Dale Lane
Yuri Takhteyev
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
MIT/X
N/A
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
C#
Lua
N/A
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
N/A
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
0
Development status
Mature
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
Small teams or private users
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Anyone
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Windows, Windows Mobile
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
N/A
Any
Any
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, CGI, Xavante
N/A
Any, or none
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
.NET 2 Framework
gcc or Lua
N/A
A common browser
Datastorage bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Optional
MySQL
No
Plugin
N/A
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
No
No
Oracle
No
No
N/A
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
No
No
RCS
No
No
N/A
Yes
No
Other
Git
N/A
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
No
Yes
N/A
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Unknown
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
No
Unknown
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
N/A
No
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
1
English
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
No
No
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
None
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Lua, JavaScript
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Output bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[Link to a page]
[[Sputnik]]
[[internal]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://www.linkme.com]
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
[link text](http://example.org)
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
+Heading
# Sputnik
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

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

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough text-
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
[$image.jpg$]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
> blockquote text
> Sputnik
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
- bulleted
* Sputnik
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# numbered
1. Sputnik
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
: description
Horizontal Rule
___
- - -
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
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