ProntoWiki vs. ProWiki vs. TWiki

General Features ProntoWiki ProWiki TWiki
Version
1.0.1
2.0.045
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2026-04-04 (today)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
Helmut Leitner
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
C#
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements ProntoWiki ProWiki TWiki
Operating System
Windows
Unix / Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage ProntoWiki ProWiki TWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
No
No
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki ProWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support ProntoWiki ProWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProntoWiki ProWiki TWiki
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
No
Yes
Special Features ProntoWiki ProWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
No
Threaded
Categories
Optional
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
Links ProntoWiki ProWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features ProntoWiki ProWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Usability ProntoWiki ProWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics ProntoWiki ProWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output ProntoWiki ProWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
No
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProntoWiki ProWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Extras ProntoWiki ProWiki TWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki ProWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[pagename]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
{title|url}
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
__under__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
[[strike]strikethrough text]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
<sup>text</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
<sub>text</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
: indented line
:: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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