TiddlyWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Hatta vs. Foswiki

General Features TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Hatta Foswiki
Version
5.1.21
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.3.13
1.6.6
2.1.11
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Alex Schroeder
Radomir Dopieralski
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
MPL-2.0
GPL
GPL v2
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free!
free
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Hatta Foswiki
Operating System
Any
Linux / Windows
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Anything PHP enabled
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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)
Writable data directory
Mercurial
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Hatta Foswiki
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
No
Yes
Yes
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
n/a
No
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Hatta Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
None yet
None (use your web server instead)
n/a
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Hatta Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
8642 ⭐
206 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
118 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Hatta Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Hatta Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
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
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Links TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Hatta Foswiki
CamelCase
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Hatta Foswiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Plugin
None
All
Math formulas
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
Perl
JavaScript
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Hatta Foswiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Hatta Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Output TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Hatta Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Hatta Foswiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Hatta Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Hatta Foswiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[Internal Link]]s
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
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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)
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]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
# Headline
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold text**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
//italic//
_italics_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
n/a
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
`code text`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{{verbatim}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
~~strikethough text~~
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
n/a
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
sometext^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
sometext~subscript~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
no example known
n/a
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

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

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
n/a
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* one
** two
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. A
2. B
3. C
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
n/a
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
n/a
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
-------
Depending on plugins:
----
----
---
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