PmWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Foswiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2.7.6
2.3.13
2.1.11
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2026-09-18 (1 month ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-09-18 (1 month ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Alex Schroeder
Foswiki Community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
Datastorage PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki 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
No
Yes
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
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.
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Plugin
Unknown
Development/Support PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
118 ⭐
8695 ⭐
Common Features PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
No
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Perl
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Output PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki Oddmuse Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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 autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"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
no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* 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
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
---
----
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