Phonemos vs. Papyrs vs. ikiwiki vs. Foswiki

General Features Phonemos Papyrs ikiwiki Foswiki
Version
2026.01
N/A
2.67
2.1.11
Last Release Date
2026-01-15 (7 months ago)
N/A
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
Last Update here
2026-02-12 (7 months ago)
2020-08-06 (6 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
Author
http://www.phonemos.com
Stunf BV
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
Proprietary
N/A
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
React/Typescript, Scala
N/A
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Database
N/A
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
from USD/EUR/CHF 50.-/mo.
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
0
$0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Businesses
Companies, teams and professionals.
Anyone
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Hosting Features Phonemos Papyrs ikiwiki Foswiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
161061273600
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
-
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
Content must be legal and not discriminatory
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Phonemos Papyrs ikiwiki Foswiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, Unix variants, Kubernetes
N/A
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Webserver
Nginx
N/A
Any, or none
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
N/A
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Phonemos Papyrs ikiwiki Foswiki
Text Files
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
N/A
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
No
No
Oracle
No
N/A
No
No
SQLite
No
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
RCS
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
Other
N/A
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Phonemos Papyrs ikiwiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
SAML2, OIDC, FIDO2
N/A
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support Phonemos Papyrs ikiwiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Phonemos Papyrs ikiwiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Phonemos Papyrs ikiwiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Italian
1
English
1
English
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links Phonemos Papyrs ikiwiki Foswiki
CamelCase
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features Phonemos Papyrs ikiwiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Scripting
via REST API
JavaScript
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Phonemos Papyrs ikiwiki Foswiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
Yes
Statistics Phonemos Papyrs ikiwiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Yes
Output Phonemos Papyrs ikiwiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Optional
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Phonemos Papyrs ikiwiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Phonemos Papyrs ikiwiki Foswiki
Calendar
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Phonemos Papyrs ikiwiki Foswiki
Internal Link
[Link](/page)
[[internal]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
[link text](http://example.org)
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
## Heading
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
*bold*
Italics Format
*italic*
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`mono`
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
- list
- list
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. list
2. list
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
***
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
---
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