Instiki vs. mobiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features Instiki mobiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Version
0.30.0
2016-06-26
1.0.1
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2016-06-26 (9 years ago)
2026-04-04 (today)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2016-06-26 (9 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Martin D�ring
Clay Alberty
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
MIT
BSD
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
PHP
C#
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
Text centric websites and mobile use
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements Instiki mobiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
any
Windows
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
any
IIS 5+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
PHP 5.4+
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage Instiki mobiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Unknown
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
No
Unknown
No
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki mobiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
No
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
Patch
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
No
Development/Support Instiki mobiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
506 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Instiki mobiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Preview
No
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
No
Change Summary
No
No
No
No
Page History
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
None
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
No
Yes
Special Features Instiki mobiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
1
English
0
1
English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
No
No
No
Yes
Comments
No
No
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
No
Optional
No
Namespaces
No
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Structured Data
No
No
Unknown
No
Links Instiki mobiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
No
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Features Instiki mobiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
none
none
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
None
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Instiki mobiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Patch
Page Templates
No
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
No
Statistics Instiki mobiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Output Instiki mobiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
No
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Instiki mobiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Extras Instiki mobiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Instiki mobiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[Internal Link]
[pagename]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
[another site](http://example.com)
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
{title|url}
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
!Headline
!, !!, !!!
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
''italics''
''italics''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
n/a
__under__
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
`monospace`
n/a
N/A
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
n/a
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
<<super>> (using custom tags)
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
N/A
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
http://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
___
aligned text
___
available through custom tags
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
n/a
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
+
++
+++
++++
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
#
##
###
####
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
term
: definition
n/a
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
***
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