Phonemos vs. Papyrs vs. XWiki

General Features Phonemos Papyrs XWiki
Version
2026.01
N/A
18.9.0
Last Release Date
2026-01-15 (9 months ago)
N/A
2026-10-26 (4 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-02-12 (8 months ago)
2020-08-06 (6 years ago)
2026-10-26 (4 days ago)
Author
http://www.phonemos.com
Stunf BV
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
N/A
Yes
License
Proprietary
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
React/Typescript, Scala
N/A
Java
Data Storage
Database
N/A
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
from USD/EUR/CHF 50.-/mo.
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Businesses
Companies, teams and professionals.
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Phonemos Papyrs XWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
161061273600
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
Other Limits
-
Topic Restrictions
Content must be legal and not discriminatory
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
No
No
System Requirements Phonemos Papyrs XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, Unix variants, Kubernetes
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Nginx
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Phonemos Papyrs XWiki
Text Files
No
N/A
No
MySQL
No
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
Yes
Oracle
No
N/A
Yes
SQLite
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
RCS
No
N/A
Plugin
Other
N/A
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam Phonemos Papyrs XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
SAML2, OIDC, FIDO2
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Phonemos Papyrs XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Phonemos Papyrs XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Phonemos Papyrs XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Italian
1
English
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Phonemos Papyrs XWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Phonemos Papyrs XWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
via REST API
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Phonemos Papyrs XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
Statistics Phonemos Papyrs XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output Phonemos Papyrs XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Optional
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Phonemos Papyrs XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Phonemos Papyrs XWiki
Calendar
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Yes
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Phonemos Papyrs XWiki
Internal Link
[Link](/page)
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
## Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
*italic*
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
`mono`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Images
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
- list
- list
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. list
2. list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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