TiddlyWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Foswiki vs. Hatta vs. Zim

General Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta Zim
Version
5.1.21
2.3.13
2.1.11
1.6.6
0.56
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Alex Schroeder
Foswiki Community
Radomir Dopieralski
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
Perl
Python
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Private users, small teams
System Requirements TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta Zim
Operating System
Any
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
None
Other Requirements
A common browser
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Mercurial
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta Zim
Text Files
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
n/a
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
8695 ⭐
89 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
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
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Links TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta Zim
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta Zim
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
None
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
none
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Perl
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
JavaScript
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Usability TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta Zim
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Statistics TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Output TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta Zim
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta Zim
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]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
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]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
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
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
''bold''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
n/a
__underline__
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>
{{{verbatim}}}
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
n/a
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
^{sup}
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
_{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"}%
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
n/a
not implemented
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

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

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
n/a
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
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
n/a
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
; term
: description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
n/a
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
---
----
not implemented
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