KeheiWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki

General Features KeheiWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Version
Pleiades-M45
2.5.4
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
2025-12-06 (11 days ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-23 (15 years ago)
2025-12-06 (11 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL2+
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
corporate and special interest groups
All
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements KeheiWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Operating System
Unix/Linux
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
none
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage KeheiWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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 KeheiWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Apache
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
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Development/Support KeheiWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
8486 ⭐
N/A
Common Features KeheiWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Preview
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features KeheiWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links KeheiWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features KeheiWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability KeheiWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics KeheiWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output KeheiWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files KeheiWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras KeheiWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Internal Link
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
//italic//
_italic_
Underline Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%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
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
: term : definition
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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