Oddmuse vs. TiddlyWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features Oddmuse TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki DokuWiki
Version
2.3.13
5.1.21
Pleiades-M45
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
LGPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Individuals, private, small groups
corporate and special interest groups
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements Oddmuse TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Any
Unix/Linux
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
A common browser
perl 4 or newer
Datastorage Oddmuse TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
None
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
optional extensions available
Apache
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support Oddmuse TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
89 ⭐
8586 ⭐
N/A
4604 ⭐
Common Features Oddmuse TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
1
English
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Oddmuse TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Oddmuse TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Optional
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Perl
JavaScript
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Oddmuse TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Oddmuse TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output Oddmuse TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Oddmuse TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras Oddmuse TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Oddmuse TiddlyWiki KeheiWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
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
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
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|With a Title]]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

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

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
no example known
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Plugin
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: description
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
----
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
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