EditMe vs. PodWiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. TracWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki PmWiki
Version
N/A
0.9.1
N/A
0.11.5
2.7.6
Last Release Date
N/A
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
N/A
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-09-18 (23 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-07-12 (16 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
2026-09-18 (23 days ago)
Author
EditMe, LLC
Thomas Linden
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Edgewall Software
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
N/A
Modified BSD license
GPL2+
Programming Language
N/A
Perl
N/A
Python
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Files, RCS
N/A
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
From $4.95/mo
GPL / none
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
N/A
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
average to advanced users
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Software development teams
All
Hosting Features EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
25MB to 4GB
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
1GB to 25GB
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
No Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki PmWiki
Operating System
N/A
Unix
N/A
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
N/A
No
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
apache
N/A
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
N/A
mod_rewrite optional
N/A
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
none
Datastorage EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki PmWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
MySQL
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
No
N/A
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
Plugin
Other
N/A
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
N/A
0
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
builtin
N/A
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
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
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Optional
Development/Support EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#49
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
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
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
1
English
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Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
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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
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Unknown
N/A
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
Perl
yes, using Python
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
No
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Output EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[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
L<http://www.daemon.de>
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
=head1 The Weather
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
B<bold>
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
I<italics>
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
via html only
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
put a space in front of monospaced text
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
via html only
~~strike-through~~
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
via html only
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
via html only
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
G<logo.png>
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
via stylesheet only
%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
via stylesheet only
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
=over

=item* listitem

=back
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
via html only
term::
definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
Use WYSIWYG editor
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