Zim vs. mobiki vs. UseMod vs. Oddmuse

General Features Zim mobiki UseMod Oddmuse
Version
0.56
2016-06-26
1.2.2
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
Martin D�ring
Clifford Adams
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
MIT
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small teams
Text centric websites and mobile use
family people, hackers
System Requirements Zim mobiki UseMod Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OSX
any
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
None
any
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
PHP 5.4+
Writable data directory
Datastorage Zim mobiki UseMod Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
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
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam Zim mobiki UseMod Oddmuse
Page Permissions
No
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
File permissions
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
No
Patch
No
Blacklist
No
No
Patch
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Zim mobiki UseMod Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Zim mobiki UseMod Oddmuse
Preview
No
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
Yes
Special Features Zim mobiki UseMod Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Optional
Interface Languages
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
0
0
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Comments
No
No
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Links Zim mobiki UseMod Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zim mobiki UseMod Oddmuse
HTML Tags
None
None
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Tables
none
none
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
No
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
No
Optional
Internal Comments
No
No
No
No
Custom styles
No
No
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
None
None
Perl
Content Includes
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Usability Zim mobiki UseMod Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Plugin
Statistics Zim mobiki UseMod Oddmuse
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Output Zim mobiki UseMod Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files Zim mobiki UseMod Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
No
No
Embedded Video
No
No
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Filenames only
Extras Zim mobiki UseMod Oddmuse
Calendar
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
No
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Optional
No
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Zim mobiki UseMod Oddmuse
Internal Link
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[Internal 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
External Link
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
=== Heading ===
!Headline
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
''italics''
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
n/a
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
``monospace``
n/a
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
~~strike~~
n/a
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
^{sup}
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
_{sub}
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
{{./image.png}}
http://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
http://url.com/pic.gif
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
not implemented
___
aligned text
___
N/A
no example known
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
n/a
: indented
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
not implemented
n/a
;Term:Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
not implemented
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remove Zim remove mobiki remove UseMod remove Oddmuse