PBwiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Instiki vs. Git-Wiki

General Features PBwiki TiddlyWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Version
N/A
5.1.21
0.30.0
1.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2019-03-01 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2019-03-04 (6 years ago)
2022-04-17 (3 years ago)
Author
PBworks
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
BSD
Ruby's
MIT
Programming Language
N/A
HTML, JavaScript
Ruby on Rails
Ruby
Data Storage
N/A
Files
Database
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
Free
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Individuals, private, small groups
general, education
Private, Public
Hosting Features PBwiki TiddlyWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki TiddlyWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Operating System
N/A
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
*nix
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Not required (optional backends available)
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Other Requirements
N/A
A common browser
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Ruby
Datastorage PBwiki TiddlyWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Text Files
N/A
Optional
No
No
MySQL
N/A
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
N/A
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
No
No
Yes
Other
N/A
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Git
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki TiddlyWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
optional extensions available
Plugin system, backends can be added
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Development/Support PBwiki TiddlyWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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508 ⭐
242 ⭐
Common Features PBwiki TiddlyWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PBwiki TiddlyWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
1
English
4
Czech, German, English, French
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
No
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Links PBwiki TiddlyWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PBwiki TiddlyWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Javascript
JavaScript
None
XML based, Javascript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability PBwiki TiddlyWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics PBwiki TiddlyWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Output PBwiki TiddlyWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Unknown
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki TiddlyWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Contents
Extras PBwiki TiddlyWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki TiddlyWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[another site](http://example.com)
[[http://example.org|The title]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
Bold Format
**bold**
''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
//italic//
_italic_, *italic*
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
{{{monospaced}}}
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
{{Image.png}}
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Text Indentation
Indented block
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: description
term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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