KeheiWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Zim

General Features KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Version
Pleiades-M45
2.3.13
2.5.4
5.1.21
0.56
Last Release Date
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2025-12-06 (11 days ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-23 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2025-12-06 (11 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
team
Alex Schroeder
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
GPL2+
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
corporate and special interest groups
family people, hackers
All
Individuals, private, small groups
Private users, small teams
System Requirements KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Operating System
Unix/Linux
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
None
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
Writable data directory
none
A common browser
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Apache
None (use your web server instead)
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
optional extensions available
File permissions
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
No
No
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
8486 ⭐
N/A
Common Features KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Preview
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
No
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
None
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
none
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Perl
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
No
Extras KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Internal Link
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
^{sup}
Subscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
_{sub}
Images
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
no example known
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
not implemented
Text Indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: term : definition
; term
: description
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
----
----
----
not implemented
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