Discourse 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. Self-hosted... Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Web Self-Hosted Ruby JavaScript Docker Integrated Spam Protection Live Push Notifications Mobile friendly Patreon Integration ... REST API Slack integration Trust Level system Add a feature 94 Like
Flarum Flarum is the next-generation forum software that makes online discussion fun. It's simple, fast, and free. Free Open Source Self-Hosted PHP Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Themes Add a feature 43 Like
phpBB 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... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux PHP No features added Add a feature 72 Like
Simple Machines Forum 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. Its powerful... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted No features added Add a feature 27 Like
MyBB MyBB is the free and open source, intuitive, extensible, and incredibly powerful forum software you've been looking for. With everything from forums to threads... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web No features added Add a feature 27 Like
vBulletin vBulletin (abbreviated as vB) is a commercial Internet forum software produced by Jelsoft Enterprises. It is written in PHP using a MySQL database server. Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone ... PHP No features added Add a feature 19 Like
NodeBB NodeBB is an open source forum software that's free and easy to use. A community forum allows you to engage and retain customers, keeping them interested and... Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted MongoDB Redis Cloudron No features added Add a feature 14 Like
bbPress 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... Free Open Source Web No features added Add a feature 19 Like
Vanilla Vanilla provides a standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able and pluggablecommunity forum software that powers discussion forums on 800,000 sites. It's... Freemium Web Self-Hosted No features added Add a feature 19 Like
XenForo A compelling community experience. Intuitive. Social. Engaging. Fast. XenForo brings a fresh outlook to forum software. Commercial Windows Linux Web Responsive design Add a feature 16 Like
PunBB PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. It is released under the GNU General Public License. Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Lightweight Add a feature 5 Like
FluxBB 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... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web No features added Add a feature 19 Like
YaBB YaBB is a free Perl forum (bulletin board) system that has rivaled professional message boards for years. YaBB provides chat for visitors where they can post any time... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted ... Perl No features added Add a feature 3 Like
WoltLab Suite WoltLab Suite (formerly Burning Board) is an enterprise grade CMS built for communities and forums. Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux MySQL Community Edition Self-Hosted ... PHP No features added Add a feature 9 Like
Spirit-Project Spirit is a modern discussion platform. Notifications Receive an automatic notification everytime someone mentions your @name, quotes you or answers to your... Free Open Source Self-Hosted Django Add a feature 6 Like
