Apache Answer AlternativesQ&A Services and other similar apps like Apache Answer

Apache Answer is described as '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' and is a Q&A service in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Apache Answer for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, PHP, Linux and Cloudron apps. The best Apache Answer alternative is Stack Overflow. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Stack Overflow or Discourse. Other great apps like Apache Answer are Flarum, Vanilla Forum, Question2Answer and Forem.

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  1. Stack Overflow icon
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    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

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
    • Stack Overflow is the most popular Web-based, Android & iPhone alternative to Apache Answer.

    • Stack Overflow is the most popular free alternative to Apache Answer.

    • Stack Overflow is Free Personal and ProprietaryApache Answer is Free and Open Source
  2. Discourse icon
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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.

    69 Discourse alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • JavaScript
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
     
    • Discourse is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Apache Answer.

    • Discourse is the most popular Open Source alternative to Apache Answer.

    • Discourse is Free Personal and Open SourceApache Answer is Free and Open Source
  3. Stack Exchange icon
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    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...

    53 Stack Exchange alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Flarum icon
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    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.

    53 Flarum alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • PHP
     
  5. Vanilla Forum icon
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    Vanilla provides a standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able and pluggablecommunity forum software that powers discussion forums on 800,000 sites.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
    • Question2Answer is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Apache Answer.

    • Question2Answer is Free and Open SourceApache Answer is also Free and Open Source
  7. Forem icon
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    Forem is open source software for building modern and independent communities for your developers, peers, customers, users. Forem is already powering communities that serve over 10 million monthly unique visitors.

    27 Forem alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. AskBot icon
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    Askbot is a Q&A system, like StackOverflow, Yahoo Answers and some others. Askbot is based on code of CNPROG, originally created by Mike Chen and Sailing Cai and some code written for OSQA.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • Django
     
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    Vanilla Forums is the top-rated cloud-based community forum software with our easy to use and quick to get started platform. Featuring a sleek user experience, deep integration to your existing tools, flexible customization to fit your branding.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Vanilla Forums is the most popular commercial alternative to Apache Answer.

    • Vanilla Forums is Paid and Open SourceApache Answer is Free and Open Source
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    Tribe is a white-label platform, empowering the new generation of online communities. It boosts users engagement and growth through widgets and integrations to existing stacks.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Circle.so icon
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    Gone are the days of needing to make a whole bunch of different tools work together. With Circle, you can combine the exciting, interactive nature of a community with your content — all in one seamless experience.

    23 Circle.so alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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