TiddlyWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. Foswiki vs. Zim

General Features TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Zim
Version
5.1.21
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.1.11
0.56
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Foswiki Community
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
MPL-2.0
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
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
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Private users, small teams
System Requirements TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Zim
Operating System
Any
Linux / Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
None
Other Requirements
A common browser
php-mbstring, php-imagick (for previews), php-fileinfo (for checking file uploads), php-intl (for unicode text normalization in the search index), `php-sqlite3` (for search index storage), and php-zip (for exporting)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Zim
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
Yes
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
n/a
caching of content into database using plugins
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
None yet
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8642 ⭐
206 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
1
English
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
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
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Links TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Zim
CamelCase
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Zim
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Usability TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Zim
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Statistics TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Output TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Zim
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Zim
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[Internal Link]]s
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
# Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold text**
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
_italics_
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
`code text`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
~~strikethough text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{sub}
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
not implemented
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
> Blockquote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. A
2. B
3. C
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
-------
---
not implemented
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