Instiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. TWiki

General Features Instiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Version
0.30.0
1.0.1
1.5.1
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2026-04-04 (today)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Clay Alberty
PukiWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
BSD
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
C#
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
One theme, one PukiWiki
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Instiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Windows
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
IIS 5+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
.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.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Instiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Text Files
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Unknown
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Unknown
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
No
RCS
No
Unknown
No
Yes
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)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support Instiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
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 ProntoWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Instiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
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
No
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
No
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Structured Data
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Links Instiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Features Instiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
none
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
None
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability Instiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics Instiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Yes
Output Instiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Instiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras Instiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Calendar
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
No
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Instiki ProntoWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[pagename]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[another site](http://example.com)
{title|url}
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
!, !!, !!!
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
''italics''
'''italic'''
_italic_
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__under__
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`monospace`
N/A
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<<super>> (using custom tags)
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
{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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
available through custom tags
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
+
++
+++
++++
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
#
##
###
####
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
term
: definition
:term|definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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