PmWiki vs. Foswiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features PmWiki Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2.7.6
2.1.11
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2026-09-18 (1 month ago)
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-09-18 (1 month ago)
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Foswiki Community
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
MPL-2.0
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
Free!
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements PmWiki Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux / Windows
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Anything PHP enabled
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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
Datastorage PmWiki Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
caching of content into database using plugins
n/a
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None yet
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support PmWiki Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
118 ⭐
207 ⭐
8695 ⭐
Common Features PmWiki Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
None
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links PmWiki Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PmWiki Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability PmWiki Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics PmWiki Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output PmWiki Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras PmWiki Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[Internal Link]]s
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
![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]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
# Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold text**
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
_italics_
//italic//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`code text`
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~strikethough text~~
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
sometext^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
sometext~subscript~
~~subscript~~
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
> Blockquote
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. A
2. B
3. C
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
---
-------
----
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