Git-Wiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Zim vs. SubWiki

General Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Zim SubWiki
Version
1.0
6.2.0
5.1.21
0.56
0.1-dev
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
no official
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (3 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Jaap Karssenberg
Greg Stein
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
BSD
BSD
GPL
Academic Free License
Programming Language
Ruby
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Python
Data Storage
RCS
Database
Files
Files, RCS
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Alpha
Intended Audience
Private, Public
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Individuals, private, small groups
Private users, small teams
System Requirements Git-Wiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Zim SubWiki
Operating System
*nix
OS Independent
Any
Linux, Windows, OSX
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Not required (optional backends available)
None
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
Ruby
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Git-Wiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Zim SubWiki
Text Files
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
Git
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Text Files with index in SQLite
No
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Zim SubWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
File permissions
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support Git-Wiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Zim SubWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
54 ⭐
8509 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Zim SubWiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Zim SubWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
4
Czech, German, English, French
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Comments
No
Flat
Plugin
No
No
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Links Git-Wiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Zim SubWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Zim SubWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Optional
None
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
none
none
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
None
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Usability Git-Wiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Zim SubWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Statistics Git-Wiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Zim SubWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output Git-Wiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Zim SubWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Unknown
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
No
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Zim SubWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
No
No
Extras Git-Wiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Zim SubWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Zim SubWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
=== Heading ===
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
//italic//
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
N/A
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
``monospace``
{{monospaced}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
~~strike~~
N/A
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
^{sup}
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
~~subscript~~
_{sub}
N/A
Images
{{Image.png}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{./image.png}}
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
not implemented
N/A
Text Indentation
one
two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
indent with tabs
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: description
not implemented
N/A
Horizontal Rule
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not implemented
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