TiddlyWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Zim vs. Hatta

General Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Zim Hatta
Version
5.1.21
2.3.13
0.56
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Alex Schroeder
Jaap Karssenberg
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
Python
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
family people, hackers
Private users, small teams
System Requirements TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Zim Hatta
Operating System
Any
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
None
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
A common browser
Writable data directory
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Mercurial
Datastorage TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Zim Hatta
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
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
Text Files with index in SQLite
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Zim Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
None (use your web server instead)
File permissions
n/a
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Zim Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
8695 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Zim Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Zim Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
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
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
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
No
No
Links TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Zim Hatta
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Zim Hatta
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
None
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
complex
simple + complex
none
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Perl
None
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Usability TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Zim Hatta
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Statistics TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Zim Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
No
Output TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Zim Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Unknown
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Zim Hatta
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Zim Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki Oddmuse Zim Hatta
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
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[link]]
[[link|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
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
=== Heading ===
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
''bold''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
n/a
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
``monospace``
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
~~strike~~
n/a
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^{sup}
n/a
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
_{sub}
n/a
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)
{{./image.png}}
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
no example known
not implemented
n/a
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

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

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
indent with tabs
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
n/a
Definition Lists
; term
: description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
not implemented
n/a
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
not implemented
----
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