Web-based AskBot Alternatives

There are many alternatives to AskBot as a web app and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Online alternative is Stack Overflow. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to AskBot and eight of them are available as a web app so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Online alternatives to AskBot are Scoold, Question2Answer, OSQA and Coordino.

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  1. Stack Overflow icon
     470 likes

    Stack Overflow, part of Stack Exchange, is a free, community-driven, reputation-based Q & A site for computer programmers. No membership is required to ask questions or provide answers to questions by others.

    48 Stack Overflow alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  2. Stack Exchange icon
     283 likes

    Stack Exchange is a fast-growing network of 84 [and counting] question and answer sites on diverse topics from software programming to cooking to photography and gaming. We are an expert knowledge exchange: a place where physics researchers can ask each other about quantum...

    51 Stack Exchange alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Apache Answer icon
     2 likes

    Q&A platform software for teams at any scale. Whether it's a community forum, help center, or knowledge management platform, you can always count on Apache Answer.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Cloudron
     
  4. Scoold icon
     16 likes

    Scoold is inspired by StackOverflow and implements most of its features. You can ask and answer questions, upvote and downvote posts, earn badges and reputation. Each edit creates an new revision, making it easy to follow the history of edits. Scoold is optimized for the cloud.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Question2Answer icon
     29 likes

    A Q&A site helps an online community to share knowledge. No matter what your area of interest, people with questions can get super answers fast. Question2Answer is a popular Q&A solution.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  6. OSQA icon
     13 likes

    OSQA is the free, open source Q&A system you've been waiting for. Your OSQA site is more than just an FAQ page, it is a full-featured Q&A community. Users earn points and badges for useful participation, and everyone in the community wins.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • Django
     
  7.  6 likes

    Coordino allows you to create a question and answer system for you and your users to enjoy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Appliance Surge is an appliance repair Q&A platform that uses gamification elements to incentivize users to contribute high quality content to the platform. This includes leaderboards, trophies, and points.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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