TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. ikiwiki

General Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Version
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.3.13
2.67
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
Anyone
System Requirements TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any, or none
Other Requirements
A common browser
Writable data directory
Datastorage TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Text Files
Optional
Yes
Yes
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
No
No
No
Yes
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8586 ⭐
4604 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Perl
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse ikiwiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[internal]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
no example known
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
; term
: description
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove TiddlyWiki remove DokuWiki remove Oddmuse remove ikiwiki