Foswiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Hatta

General Features Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Version
2.1.11
5.1.21
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL v2
Programming Language
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Not required (optional backends available)
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
Mercurial
Datastorage Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
n/a
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Development/Support Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
8673 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
No
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Links Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Features Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
HTML Tags
All
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
JavaScript
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
*bold*
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
n/a
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
n/a
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
n/a
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
n/a
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
; term
: description
n/a
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
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