GWiki vs. ProWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wiclear

General Features GWiki ProWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiclear
Version
2.4.0
2.0.045
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
1.0
Last Release Date
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Helmut Leitner
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL2
Programming Language
Java
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
private users
System Requirements GWiki ProWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiclear
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Unix / Linux
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
none
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
MySql
Datastorage GWiki ProWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiclear
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Other
Google Datastore
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki ProWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Development/Support GWiki ProWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
7 ⭐
N/A
8585 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features GWiki ProWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiclear
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features GWiki ProWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
2
German, English
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
4
German, English, French, Japanese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
No
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links GWiki ProWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiclear
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features GWiki ProWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability GWiki ProWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiclear
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics GWiki ProWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Output GWiki ProWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki ProWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiclear
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Contents
No
Extras GWiki ProWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiclear
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki ProWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiclear
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Title]
External Link
[http://example.com]
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
__bold__
Italics Format
_Italic format_
''italic''
//italic//
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
[[strike]strikethrough text]
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
<sup>text</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
<sub>text</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
: indented line
:: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
# numbered list
## numbered list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
; term: definition
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
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