BrainKeeper vs. EditMe vs. WackoWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Version
N/A
N/A
6.2.0
TWiki-6.1.0
2.5.5
Last Release Date
N/A
N/A
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-01-10 (21 days 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)
2026-01-10 (21 days ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
EditMe, LLC
WackoWiki Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
N/A
BSD
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Database
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
From $4.95/mo
0
N/A
0
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
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
All
Hosting Features BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
25MB to 4GB
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
1GB to 25GB
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
No
No
No
Oracle
N/A
N/A
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
N/A
N/A
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
Yes
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
N/A
Common Features BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Patch
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
one
two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# 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
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
Use WYSIWYG editor
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