ProWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki

General Features ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Version
2.0.045
1.5.1
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
PukiWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
One theme, one PukiWiki
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
OS independent
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Yes
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
Patch
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Development/Support ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
8585 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
4
German, English, French, Japanese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
No
No
Yes
Yes
Links ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Statistics ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Output ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
No
Contents
Extras ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Internal Link 
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link 
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]

http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
 
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 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format 
'''bold'''
 
''bold''
 
''bold''
 
*bold*
Italics Format 
''italic''
 
'''italic'''
 
//italic//
 
_italic_
Underline Format 
<u>underlined</u>
 
%%%underlined%%%
 
__underline__
 
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format 
<tt>monospace</tt>
 
N/A
 
{{{monospaced}}}
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format 
[[strike]strikethrough text]
 
%%strikethrough%%
 
--strikethrough--
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format 
<sup>text</sup>
 
N/A
 
^^superscript^^
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
<sub>text</sub>
 
N/A
 
~~subscript~~
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images 
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]

#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
 
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text 
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
 
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
 
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation 
: indented line
:: indented line
 
N/A
 
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists 
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2

* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists 
# numbered list
## numbered list
 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists 
; term: definition
 
:term|definition
 
; term
: description
 
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule 
----
 
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----
 
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