TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. TWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Version
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Pleiades-M45
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
corporate and special interest groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
A common browser
perl 4 or newer
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Text Files
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Apache
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Development/Support TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8586 ⭐
4604 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
*bold*
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
Plugin
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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remove TiddlyWiki remove DokuWiki remove KeheiWiki remove TWiki