ProWiki vs. Zim vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. Hatta vs. PodWiki

General Features ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Hatta PodWiki
Version
2.0.045
0.56
5.1.21
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
1.6.6
0.9.1
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (20 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Jaap Karssenberg
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Radomir Dopieralski
Thomas Linden
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
MPL-2.0
GPL v2
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Python
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free!
0
GPL / none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Private users, small teams
Individuals, private, small groups
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
average to advanced users
System Requirements ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Hatta PodWiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Linux, Windows, OSX
Any
Linux / Windows
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Unix
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
None
Not required (optional backends available)
Anything PHP enabled
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
apache
Other Requirements
none
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
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)
Mercurial
mod_rewrite optional
Datastorage ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Hatta PodWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
n/a
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Hatta PodWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
File permissions
optional extensions available
None yet
n/a
builtin
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Development/Support ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Hatta PodWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
#49
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
8695 ⭐
207 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Hatta PodWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Special Features ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Hatta PodWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
1
English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
1
English
Email notification
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Comments
No
No
Plugin
Threaded
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Links ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Hatta PodWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Syntax Features ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Hatta PodWiki
HTML Tags
Some
None
Optional
Optional
None
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Tables
simple + complex
none
complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
None
JavaScript
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Usability ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Hatta PodWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Statistics ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Hatta PodWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Output ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Hatta PodWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
XML export
No
No
Unknown
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Hatta PodWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Hatta PodWiki
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki Zim TiddlyWiki Pepperminty Wiki Hatta PodWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[Internal Link]]s
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
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]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
L<http://www.daemon.de>
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
=== Heading ===
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
# Headline
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
=head1 The Weather
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
**bold text**
**bold**
B<bold>
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
//italic//
_italics_
//italic//
I<italics>
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
n/a
via html only
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
``monospace``
{{{monospaced}}}
`code text`
{{{verbatim}}}
put a space in front of monospaced text
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
~~strike~~
--strikethrough--
~~strikethough text~~
n/a
via html only
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
^{sup}
^^superscript^^
sometext^superscript^
n/a
via html only
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
_{sub}
~~subscript~~
sometext~subscript~
n/a
via html only
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
{{./image.png}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
G<logo.png>
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
not implemented
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
n/a
via stylesheet only
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
indent with tabs
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
> Blockquote
n/a
via stylesheet only
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* list
** sublist
=over

=item* listitem

=back
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. A
2. B
3. C
n/a
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
Definition Lists
; term: definition
not implemented
; term
: description
n/a
via html only
Horizontal Rule
----
not implemented
----
-------
----
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