Kanka vs Wikily

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.

Wikily is a platform for creating and reading game wikis with items, maps, stats and calculators. Reading is free, and wikis can offer supported reader languages, though adding a language does not translate content automatically. The creation tools are aimed at game communities publishing maps, calculators, build planners and guides without code or servers. A visual editor lets creators arrange blocks and widgets with a live preview, without markup. Interactive maps support panning, zooming, filterable markers and links from markers to wiki pages. Tables and datasets can feed entries and markers into pages and maps, with shared-data updates flowing through to those views. Wiki owners can invite editors, assign roles and review revisions, and customize themes, colours, fonts and logos. An MCP-speaking AI assistant can make edits using a service token with a selected role; those changes remain subject to review and version history. Reader pages carry ads from Wikily's ad partner, while Premium readers see no ads. Wikily offers free wiki creation and reading on iOS, web and Windows.