ProntoWiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. PhpWiki

General Features ProntoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki
Version
1.0.1
N/A
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2026-06-14 (today)
N/A
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
BSD
N/A
GPL
Programming Language
C#
N/A
PHP
Data Storage
Database
N/A
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Any
Hosting Features ProntoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements ProntoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki
Operating System
Windows
N/A
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
N/A
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
N/A
various opt. helpers
Datastorage ProntoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki
Text Files
Unknown
N/A
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
N/A
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
N/A
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
N/A
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
N/A
Yes
RCS
Unknown
N/A
Yes
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
N/A
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
N/A
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
Unknown
No
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
Unknown
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support ProntoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
N/A
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProntoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProntoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Optional
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Links ProntoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ProntoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Unknown
Plugin
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability ProntoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics ProntoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Output ProntoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProntoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Extras ProntoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki
Internal Link
[pagename]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
{title|url}
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__under__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
<sub>below</sub>
Images
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
# list
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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