BrainKeeper vs. EditMe vs. WackoWiki vs. TWiki

General Features BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki
Version
N/A
N/A
6.2.0
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
N/A
N/A
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2010-07-12 (15 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
EditMe, LLC
WackoWiki Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
N/A
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
From $4.95/mo
0
N/A
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
25MB to 4GB
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
1GB to 25GB
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
None
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
Yes
N/A
N/A
System Requirements BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
No
Yes
MySQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
No
No
Oracle
N/A
N/A
No
No
SQLite
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
No
Yes
Other
N/A
N/A
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
All
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Usability BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
//italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
one
two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
Use WYSIWYG editor
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