ArmorForums Alternatives

ArmorForums is described as 'Platform for creating free private forums on a subdomain and cloud hosted software developed and maintained by ArmorForums. Free hosting services for forum websites and full control over settings, users, content and more' and is an website in the social & communications category. There are more than 10 alternatives to ArmorForums, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Mac, Windows and Linux apps. The best ArmorForums alternative is Discourse. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Discourse or phpBB. Other great sites and apps similar to ArmorForums are MyBB, XenForo, bbPress and Vanilla Forum.

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  1. 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.

    70 Discourse alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • JavaScript
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
     
    • Discourse is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to ArmorForums.

    • Discourse is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to ArmorForums.

    • Discourse is Free Personal and Open SourceArmorForums is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. phpBB icon
     90 likes
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    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.

    53 phpBB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
    • phpBB is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to ArmorForums.

    • phpBB is Free and Open SourceArmorForums is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. MyBB icon
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    MyBB is the free and open source, intuitive, extensible, and incredibly powerful forum software you've been looking for.

    47 MyBB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. XenForo icon
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    A compelling community experience. Intuitive. Social. Engaging. Fast. XenForo brings a fresh outlook to forum software.

    44 XenForo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Self-Hosted
    • MariaDB
    • PHP
     
    • XenForo is the most popular commercial alternative to ArmorForums.

    • XenForo is Paid and ProprietaryArmorForums is Freemium and Proprietary
  6. bbPress icon
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    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
     
  7. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. vBulletin icon
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    vBulletin (abbreviated as vB) is a commercial Internet forum software written in PHP using a MySQL database server.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • PHP
     
    • vBulletin is the most popular Android & iPhone alternative to ArmorForums.

    • vBulletin is Paid and ProprietaryArmorForums is Freemium and Proprietary
  9. Foru.ms icon
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    Cloud Hosted Forum Communities.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Foru.ms is the most popular SaaS alternative to ArmorForums.

    • Foru.ms is Free and ProprietaryArmorForums is Freemium and Proprietary
  10. ForumWP icon
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    ForumWP is the best forum plugin for WordPress. Use ForumWP to add a forum to your website and create an online community.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. uCoz icon
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    uCoz is a free website-builder that includes hosting and a website management system. uCoz works according to the principles of Web 2.0 and allows creating of the most complicated projects with extraordinary simplicity and speed.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  12. Thredded icon
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    Feature-rich and lightning fast forums. Works standalone or as a Rails engine. Markdown by default, with plugins for code highlighting, KaTeX math, and BBCode. No JavaScript required. Easy deployment on Heroku or with Ansible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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