TiddlyWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Foswiki

General Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
Version
5.1.21
2.3.13
2.1.11
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Alex Schroeder
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
Operating System
Any
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
A common browser
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
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
Yes
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Development/Support TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8642 ⭐
89 ⭐
118 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
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 Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
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
Yes
Links TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
Perl
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Output TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media and Files TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
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
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/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
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
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
''bold''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
//italic//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
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)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

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

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
---
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