smasi vs. DokuWiki vs. Instiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki
Version
8.3
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
0.30.0
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2026-07-09 (1 month ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-10 (1 month ago)
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
Author
2S-Software AG
Andreas Gohr
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Freemium
GPL 2
Ruby's
GPL
Programming Language
Flutter
PHP
Ruby on Rails
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
USD 18 (one-time in-app purchase)
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, tradespeople, worldbuild-creators, story-writers
personal, small to medium companies
general, education
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Android, iOS, macOS, or Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
No server installation required
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
Available securely from all major app stores
Ruby 2.0-2.6
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
None
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
No
Security/Anti-Spam smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4707 ⭐
508 ⭐
42 ⭐
Common Features smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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
1
English
0
Email notification
No
Optional
No
Patch
Comments
No
Plugin
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
None
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Yes
Usability smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Statistics smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Output smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Patch
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
No
Extras smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
No
No
No
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[another site](http://example.com)
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
//italics//
_italic_, *italic*
//italic//
Underline Format
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
__underlined__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underlined__
Monospace Format
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
''monospace''
`monospace`
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
N/A
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
Plugin
term
: definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
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