GWiki vs. mobiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. ProWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. TWiki

General Features GWiki mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Version
2.4.0
2016-06-26
1.0.1
2.0.045
1.5.1
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2016-06-26 (9 years ago)
2026-04-24 (today)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2016-06-26 (9 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Martin D�ring
Clay Alberty
Helmut Leitner
PukiWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
MIT
BSD
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
C#
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
Free
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Text centric websites and mobile use
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
One theme, one PukiWiki
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements GWiki mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
any
Windows
Unix / Linux
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
any
IIS 5+
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
PHP 5.4+
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage GWiki mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Other
Google Datastore
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
.NET Membership platform
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
No
No
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support GWiki mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
7 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features GWiki mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features GWiki mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Interface Languages
2
German, English
0
1
English
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
No
No
No
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Links GWiki mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features GWiki mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
Some
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
none
none
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability GWiki mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics GWiki mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Output GWiki mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
No
No
Contents
Extras GWiki mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki mobiki ProntoWiki ProWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[Internal Link]
[pagename]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
{title|url}
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
!Headline
!, !!, !!!
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
_Italic format_
''italics''
''italics''
''italic''
'''italic'''
_italic_
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
n/a
__under__
<u>underlined</u>
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
n/a
<tt>monospace</tt>
N/A
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
n/a
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
[[strike]strikethrough text]
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
n/a
<<super>> (using custom tags)
<sup>text</sup>
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
n/a
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
<sub>text</sub>
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
http://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
___
aligned text
___
available through custom tags
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
n/a
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
: indented line
:: indented line
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
+
++
+++
++++
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
#
##
###
####
# numbered list
## numbered list
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
n/a
; term: definition
:term|definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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---
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