ProntoWiki vs. Zim vs. DokuWiki

General Features ProntoWiki Zim DokuWiki
Version
1.0.1
0.56
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2026-07-27 (today)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
Jaap Karssenberg
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
C#
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small teams
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements ProntoWiki Zim DokuWiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
None
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage ProntoWiki Zim DokuWiki
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
Plugin
No
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Text Files with index in SQLite
None
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki Zim DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
File permissions
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support ProntoWiki Zim DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ProntoWiki Zim DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
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 Zim DokuWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
No
Optional
Comments
No
No
Plugin
Categories
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Plugin
Links ProntoWiki Zim DokuWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Features ProntoWiki Zim DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Some
None
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
none
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
Footnotes
Optional
No
Yes
Quoting
Optional
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
No
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
No
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Usability ProntoWiki Zim DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics ProntoWiki Zim DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Optional
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Output ProntoWiki Zim DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files ProntoWiki Zim DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Extras ProntoWiki Zim DokuWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki Zim DokuWiki
Internal Link
[pagename]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
{title|url}
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
=== Heading ===
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
__under__
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
``monospace``
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
~~strike~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
^{sup}
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
_{sub}
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
{{./image.png}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
not implemented
Plugin
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
indent with tabs
N/A
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
not implemented
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
not implemented
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