Kanka vs Telepedia
Kanka
kanka.ioTelepedia
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| Figure | Kanka | Telepedia |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $1.74/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 8 | 0 |
| Spec score · Game Wiki Software | 8.9 (#2) | 6.9 (#19) |
| Company | The company history lists the founding of Owlchester SNC in October 2020. | Telepedia Ltd. is registered in England and Wales under company number 14025644, with a registered address in Mildenhall, England. |
| Customization | Campaigns can rename or reorder categories and use custom CSS, themes and community plugins. | ConfigCentre lets wiki administrators enable or disable extensions, change settings, and modify user groups and permissions on-wiki. |
| Headquarters | Geneva, Switzerland | Suite A, 82 James Carter Road, Mildenhall, England, IP28 7DE, United Kingdom |
| Support | The team says it handles user emails and Discord messages, and its knowledge base directs bug reports and user help requests to Discord. | The homepage says its staff have MediaWiki experience and are available to support users; it links to a Support desk. |
| What it does | Kanka is an online worldbuilding and tabletop RPG campaign manager for organizing linked campaign content. | Telepedia hosts community run wikis about games, television shows, and other subjects. |
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
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.
Telepedia
Telepedia is a web service for creating and hosting public, community-run wikis about games, television, movies, anime and manga, books and comics, music, and other permitted subjects. Users can start a wiki through a creation wizard without waiting for approval, or ask Telepedia to migrate an existing wiki. Hosted sites use the free, open-source MediaWiki software. Administrators can use ConfigCentre to edit settings, namespaces, extensions, user groups, and permissions. Listed extensions include VisualEditor, MobileFrontend, YouTube, and interactive maps, with additional requests evaluated by Telepedia. The platform also supports in-house, Wikimedia-maintained, and community-supported extensions and skins, while excluding options such as Graph, Widgets, SemanticMediaWiki, SocialProfile, and chat or email extensions. Wikis are searchable and public, and Telepedia may place advertisements that owners cannot remove or modify. Support is available through a Support desk. If a wiki leaves, Telepedia offers XML dumps but not image dumps.