Free Invision Community AlternativesForum Software and other similar apps like Invision Community

The best free alternative to Invision Community is Discourse. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Discourse or Flarum. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Invision Community and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Invision Community are Simple Machines Forum, MyBB, NodeBB and Vanilla Forum.

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  1. Discourse icon

    Discourse

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    Discourse is an open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. A modern forum, everything's been redesigned to be easy.

    73 Discourse alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • JavaScript
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
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    Discourse vs Invision Community Comments
    ab1
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    Discourse WAS just about comments before. Discourse has some forum-like features now.

    Guest
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    Discourse is essentially a platform for commenting, has nothing to do with this.

    Guest
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    Discourse isn't a CMS at all and isn't working like Invision Power Suite (who also have pages, groups, blogs, hubs, etc...). Discourse is more like a comment platform than a board organized by forums/categories/topics like IPS.

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    • Discourse is Free Personal and Open SourceInvision Community is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Flarum icon

    Flarum

     82 likes

    Flarum is free, open-source forum software with a focus on simplicity. You can use Flarum to easily set up a discussion forum for your website. Flarum is developed openly on GitHub.

    55 Flarum alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • PHP
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    Flarum vs Invision Community Comments
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    Flarum is by default not comparable as IPS, but many of the IPS functionality can be found in extensions, like blogs, pages, user level, etc.

    • Flarum is Free and Open SourceInvision Community is Paid and Proprietary
    • Flarum is LightweightInvision Community is not according to our users
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    phpBB

     90 likes

    Since its creation in 2000, phpBB™ has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB™ 3.2 “Rhea” has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes.

    55 phpBB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    37 languages
     
  7. MyBB icon

    MyBB

     35 likes

    MyBB is the free and open source, intuitive, extensible, and incredibly powerful forum software you've been looking for.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  8. NodeBB icon

    NodeBB

     20 likes

    A community forum allows you to engage and retain customers, keeping them interested and up-to-date with your latest product or service.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Sandstorm
    • MongoDB
    • Redis
    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
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  9. Vanilla Forum icon

    Vanilla Forum

     22 likes

    Vanilla provides a standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able and pluggablecommunity forum software that powers discussion forums on 800,000 sites.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    bbPress

     21 likes

    bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress. Its focused on web standards, ease of use, ease of integration, and speed. bbPress will try to keep things as small and light as possible while still allowing great add-on feature possibilities.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    ElkArte

     2 likes

    ElkArte is a modern, powerful community building forum software. It is completely free to use and is licensed with an open source BSD-3 clause license.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  12. FluxBB icon

    FluxBB

     24 likes

    FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website. FluxBB was designed as a lighter, faster alternative to some of the traditional feature heavy forum applications. It is easy to use and has a proven track record of stability and security making it an...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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    Storyden

     4 likes

    With a fresh new take on traditional bulletin board forum software, Storyden is a modern, secure and extensible platform for building communities.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    Community hub
     
  14. Booklet icon

    Booklet

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    Booklet is a asynchronous discussion forum as an alternative to chat. It sends calm, automated summaries to everybody so that they stay informed and engaged - without having to stay logged in.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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