blogSpirit vs. Pebble vs. Serendipity vs. Geeklog vs. Movable Type vs. FlatPress

General Features blogSpirit Pebble Serendipity Geeklog Movable Type FlatPress
Version
5.0
2.5.1
1.1
1.8.2
4.21
0.1010
Release Date
2007
29/11/2010
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
2009-01-23 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
blogSpirit
Simon Brown
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Geeklog Team
Six Apart
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
From $0 to Enterprise
BSD
BSD
GNU version 2
GPL
GPLv2
License Cost/ Fee
From $0 to Enterprise
0
0
none
$0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Hosting Features blogSpirit Pebble Serendipity Geeklog Movable Type FlatPress
Storage Quota
does not apply
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
does not apply
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
does not apply
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
does not apply
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements blogSpirit Pebble Serendipity Geeklog Movable Type FlatPress
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
php
Perl 5
PHP4, compatible with 5
Operating System
Linux
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
any
Platform Independant
Platform Independent
Webserver
Apache
Any Java Application Server
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
any
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Apache, works on IIS
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
None
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Datastorage blogSpirit Pebble Serendipity Geeklog Movable Type FlatPress
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Other
None
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
no
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
Anti-Spam blogSpirit Pebble Serendipity Geeklog Movable Type FlatPress
Akismet Support
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Antispam spirit
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
User Access Features blogSpirit Pebble Serendipity Geeklog Movable Type FlatPress
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Other Authentication
DNA SSO
Pluggable
Support blogSpirit Pebble Serendipity Geeklog Movable Type FlatPress
Commercial Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Online Help
www.blogspirit.com/fr/kb/
http://pebble.sourceforge.net
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
Issue Tracker
DNA/ys
http://open.jira.com/browse/PEBBLE
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
Books
1
None
None
1
2-5
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features blogSpirit Pebble Serendipity Geeklog Movable Type FlatPress
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Receive
Ping Service Support
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blog by Email
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blog API
XML-RPC and Atom
MovableType, Blogger
XML-RPC and Atom
WordPress (plugin)
Post Editing blogSpirit Pebble Serendipity Geeklog Movable Type FlatPress
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Undo
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Comment Features blogSpirit Pebble Serendipity Geeklog Movable Type FlatPress
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Gravatars
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Open-ID Support
None
Client
None
Client + Server
Client + Server
Extended Features blogSpirit Pebble Serendipity Geeklog Movable Type FlatPress
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Workflow blogSpirit Pebble Serendipity Geeklog Movable Type FlatPress
Content Approval
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interoperability blogSpirit Pebble Serendipity Geeklog Movable Type FlatPress
Content Import
Movable Type, blogSpirit
atom/rss
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
Content Export
blogSpirit
atom/rss
Dump to RSS, Database export
Yes
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
HTML 4
XHTML 1.1
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration blogSpirit Pebble Serendipity Geeklog Movable Type FlatPress
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication blogSpirit Pebble Serendipity Geeklog Movable Type FlatPress
RSS 0.9x
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting blogSpirit Pebble Serendipity Geeklog Movable Type FlatPress
Podcast Feeds
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
YouTube Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
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