Foswiki vs. TightWiki

General Features Foswiki TightWiki
Version
2.1.11
2.39.3
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2026-10-03 (13 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2026-10-06 (10 days ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
NetworkDLS
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
MIT
Programming Language
Perl
C#
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Small to medium business and personal use.
System Requirements Foswiki TightWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
IIS / Kestrel / nginx
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
.NET runtime
Datastorage Foswiki TightWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki TightWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Plugin
Development/Support Foswiki TightWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
47 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki TightWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki TightWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
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
48
Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Moldavian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Optional
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Links Foswiki TightWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Foswiki TightWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
TightWiki proprietary
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Foswiki TightWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Foswiki TightWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Output Foswiki TightWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
Media and Files Foswiki TightWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Foswiki TightWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples Foswiki TightWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[Home, Take me home]]
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[[https://Tightwiki.com, Go to TightWiki]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Header
===Sub Header
Bold Format
*bold*
**this is bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
//this is Italic//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__this is underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{Code(bash)
This is syntax highlighted monospace text.
}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~this is strikethrough~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^^Large
^^^^Larger
^^^^^Even larger
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Would require a plugin.
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
##Image(download.jpg)
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{{Blockquote(Center, This is the caption)
This is the content text
}}

-or-

{{Figure(Center, This is the caption)
This is the content text
}}
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Ony inside bulleted or numbered lists, otherwise would require a plugin.
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
{{Bullets
Item 1
>Sub item 1.1
>Sub item 1.2
Item 2
>Sub item 2.1
}}
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
{{Bullets(Ordered)
Item 1
>Sub item 1.1
>Sub item 1.2
Item 2
>Sub item 2.1
}}
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Would require a plugin.
Horizontal Rule
---
##HR
remove Foswiki remove TightWiki