Indie Wikis vs Kanka
Indie Wikis
indiewikis.comKanka
kanka.ioSide by side
| Figure | Indie Wikis | Kanka |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $1.74/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 8 |
| Spec score · Game Wiki Software | 7.4 (#14) | 8.9 (#2) |
| Support | Prospective wiki owners are asked to contact Indie Wikis to learn whether their game qualifies. | The team says it handles user emails and Discord messages, and its knowledge base directs bug reports and user help requests to Discord. |
| What it does | Indie Wikis offers free wiki hosting for indie game developers and helps set up and fully manage their game or mod wiki. | Kanka is an online worldbuilding and tabletop RPG campaign manager for organizing linked campaign content. |
Plans
Kanka
- KoboldFree
- KoboldFree
- Owlbear$4.16 a month
- Wyvern$8.33 a month
- Elemental$20.82 a month
- Elemental$20.82 a year
- Owlbear$49.92 a year
- Wyvern$99.96 a year
In their own words
Indie Wikis
Indie Wikis hosts and manages wikis for qualifying indie games and mods. The web service covers hosting, spam protection, templates, and content moderation, with no hosting fees for approved wiki owners. A project should have an established community and enough complexity to justify a wiki, and Indie Wikis decides whether it qualifies. Wiki owners receive 60% of advertising revenue, with the share negotiable and payments made monthly. The service has a free plan and no free trial. Prospective owners are asked to contact Indie Wikis about eligibility. Users may browse anonymously, while the privacy policy says names and email addresses may be collected when voluntarily provided. The site may use cookies, including cookies from advertising partners such as Google AdSense for targeted advertising. The policy says personal information is not sold, traded, or rented, and may be shared with service providers for limited purposes with permission. It was last updated on 18 February 2021.
Kanka
Kanka is a web-based worldbuilding service and RPG campaign manager for organizing ideas, creations, and campaign settings. It is intended for game masters, worldbuilders, players, writers, and content creators, and can be used with any tabletop RPG system or without one. Campaigns can organize material across about 20 categories, including characters, locations, items, quests, journals, calendars, events, and abilities; owners can disable categories they do not need. Members can receive roles that control what they can see and do, and owners can preview a campaign from a member’s perspective. Worldbuilding tools include linked relations, timelines, custom calendars, layered interactive maps, and a rich-text editor with @mentions. The REST API is available to all accounts and can support scripts, backups, bots, dashboards, VTT integrations, and data synchronization. Kanka has a free plan and annual paid plans from $4.16/mo. It can also be self-hosted, though premium features are unavailable there and the team does not provide self-hosting support. There is no dedicated mobile app, but the interface adapts to smaller screens.