Foswiki vs. Oddmuse vs. TWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2.1.8
2.3.13
TWiki-6.1.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Alex Schroeder
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
free
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
family people, hackers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
Datastorage Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
Yes
No
Yes
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Development/Support Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
97 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Yes
Special Features Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Perl
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Output Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
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
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
---
Depending on plugins:
----
---
----
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