TiddlyWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. DokuWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Version
5.1.21
2.3.13
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-25 (17 days ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Alex Schroeder
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
family people, hackers
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Operating System
Any
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
A common browser
Writable data directory
Datastorage TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Text Files
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
None (use your web server instead)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Optional
Development/Support TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8580 ⭐
89 ⭐
4593 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
Perl
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media and Files TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
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
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

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

section
=======

subsection
----------
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
''bold''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

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

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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