ProWiki vs. Zim vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Hatta

General Features ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Hatta
Version
2.0.045
0.56
5.1.21
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (20 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Jaap Karssenberg
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL v2
Programming Language
Perl
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Private users, small teams
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Hatta
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Linux, Windows, OSX
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
None
Not required (optional backends available)
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
none
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
A common browser
Mercurial
Datastorage ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Hatta
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
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
File permissions
optional extensions available
n/a
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
8695 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Comments
No
No
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
No
No
Yes
No
Links ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Hatta
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Features ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Hatta
HTML Tags
Some
None
Optional
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
none
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
None
JavaScript
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
No
Usability ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Hatta
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Statistics ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Output ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Filenames only
Extras ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Hatta
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Hatta
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
=== Heading ===
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
n/a
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
``monospace``
{{{monospaced}}}
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
~~strike~~
--strikethrough--
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
^{sup}
^^superscript^^
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
_{sub}
~~subscript~~
n/a
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
{{./image.png}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
not implemented
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
n/a
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
indent with tabs
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
n/a
Definition Lists
; term: definition
not implemented
; term
: description
n/a
Horizontal Rule
----
not implemented
----
----
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