Pepperminty Wiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Foswiki vs. LionWiki

General Features Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki LionWiki
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
5.1.21
2.1.11
3.2.4
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2026-03-15 (1 month ago)
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-15 (1 month ago)
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Foswiki Community
Adam Živnéř
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
BSD
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
0
$0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
advanced users, minimalists
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki LionWiki
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
All PHP supported
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything PHP enabled
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Other Requirements
php-mbstring, php-imagick (for previews), php-fileinfo (for checking file uploads), php-intl (for unicode text normalization in the search index), `php-sqlite3` (for search index storage), and php-zip (for exporting)
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki LionWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
n/a
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki LionWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
None yet
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki LionWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
206 ⭐
8587 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki LionWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki LionWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
None
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Links Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki LionWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki LionWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
JavaScript (plugin)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki LionWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki LionWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Output Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki LionWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki LionWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
No
Extras Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki LionWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki LionWiki
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
External Link
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
Headlines
# Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
Bold Format
**bold text**
''bold''
*bold*
'''bold''
Italics Format
_italics_
//italic//
_italic_
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
'__underline__'
Monospace Format
`code text`
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
'--strikethrough--'
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[path_to_img.jpg]
Aligning Text
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
Numbered Lists
1. A
2. B
3. C
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
Definition Lists
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
-------
----
---
----
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