# Confluence vs Zim — Fit & Features

Canonical: https://trutool.co/compare/confluence-vs-zim
Author: Sandeep (https://trutool.co/authors/sandeep)

Compare Confluence and Zim by use case, features, limitations, and evaluation questions.

## Compare fit, features, and limitations

### Confluence
Team documentation and knowledge sharing.
Best fit: Teams maintaining reusable knowledge considering Confluence for this job: Team documentation and knowledge sharing.
- Team documentation and knowledge sharing
Before you choose: Test search relevance, content ownership, freshness, access boundaries, and usable exports in the exact plan you intend to use.
Pricing: https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence
- [Read Confluence profile](https://trutool.co/tools/confluence): Read Confluence profile

### Zim
Zim is a notepad like desktop application that is inspired by the way people use wikis.
Best fit: People and teams evaluating documentation & knowledge bases for a specific workflow.
- Core product workflow
Before you choose: Test a representative task, inspect outputs, and confirm integrations, permissions, data handling, licensing, and current costs.
Pricing: https://zim-wiki.org
- [Read Zim profile](https://trutool.co/tools/zim): Read Zim profile