alphawiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki vs. Zim

General Features alphawiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Zim
Version
v.20160608
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
0.56
Last Release Date
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
Author
marty alain
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Private users, small teams
System Requirements alphawiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Zim
Operating System
probably every OS
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
None
Other Requirements
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage alphawiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Optional
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
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
No
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Development/Support alphawiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features alphawiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, 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
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
No
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Links alphawiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Zim
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Features alphawiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Zim
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability alphawiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Zim
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics alphawiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Output alphawiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files alphawiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
No
Extras alphawiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Zim
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples alphawiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Zim
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
''bold''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
//italic//
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{sub}
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
not implemented
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
----
---
not implemented
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