EditMe vs. BrainKeeper vs. PmWiki

General Features EditMe BrainKeeper PmWiki
Version
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2.7.6
Last Release Date
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N/A
2026-09-18 (23 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-07-12 (16 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2026-09-18 (23 days ago)
Author
EditMe, LLC
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
Yes
License
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N/A
GPL2+
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Files
License Cost/ Fee
From $4.95/mo
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
All
Hosting Features EditMe BrainKeeper PmWiki
Storage Quota
25MB to 4GB
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
1GB to 25GB
Unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
None
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
No Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
No
N/A
System Requirements EditMe BrainKeeper PmWiki
Operating System
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N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
none
Datastorage EditMe BrainKeeper PmWiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
Yes
MySQL
N/A
N/A
Plugin
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
No
Oracle
N/A
N/A
No
SQLite
N/A
N/A
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
Plugin
Other
N/A
N/A
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam EditMe BrainKeeper PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
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
No
Unknown
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
Unknown
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support EditMe BrainKeeper PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features EditMe BrainKeeper PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features EditMe BrainKeeper PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
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
Optional
Comments
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links EditMe BrainKeeper PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features EditMe BrainKeeper PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Unknown
Optional
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability EditMe BrainKeeper PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics EditMe BrainKeeper PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Unknown
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output EditMe BrainKeeper PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files EditMe BrainKeeper PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras EditMe BrainKeeper PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples EditMe BrainKeeper PmWiki
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[[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
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
'''bold'''
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
''italic''
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
'_subscript_'
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
%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
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
Use WYSIWYG editor
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