OSQA AlternativesQ&A Services and other similar apps like OSQA

OSQA is described as 'The free, open source Q&A system you've been waiting for. Your OSQA site is more than just an FAQ page, it full-featured Q&A community. Users earn points and badges for useful participation, and everyone in the community wins' and is a Q&A service in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to OSQA for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Android, Linux and Mac apps. The best OSQA 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. Other great apps like OSQA are Scoold, Question2Answer, Talkyard and AskBot.

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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 OSQA.

    • Stack Overflow is the most popular free alternative to OSQA.

    • Stack Overflow is Free Personal and ProprietaryOSQA is Free and Open Source
  2. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Codidact icon
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    Ever had a question? Ever had an answer? Ever had knowledge to share? We believe that coming together to inquire and learn, to share knowledge and to teach each other, makes the world a better place. We also believe that Q&A communities should be free from the politics and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Codidact is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to OSQA.

    • Codidact is the most popular Open Source alternative to OSQA.

    • Codidact is Free and Open SourceOSQA is also Free and Open Source
  4. Scoold icon
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    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

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Question2Answer icon
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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

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    Platforms

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

    • Question2Answer is Free and Open SourceOSQA is also Free and Open Source
    • Question2Answer is LightweightOSQA is not according to our users
  6. Talkyard icon
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    Help each other — with the main features from StackOverflow, Discourse, Slack, Reddit, and Disqus.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Talkyard is the most popular SaaS alternative to OSQA.

    • Talkyard is Free and Open SourceOSQA is also Free and Open Source
  7. 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

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • Django
     
  8. Bitfortip icon
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    Tip Bitcoins as an incentive | Earn Bitcoins for being helpful.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Hypersay is a platform for interactive presentations that massively increase engagement. Keep your audience engaged with polls, questions, private notes and live slide sharing. Store, enrich & deliver presentations from your cloud.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • iPad
     
    • Hypersay Slides is the most popular iPad alternative to OSQA.

    • Hypersay Slides is Free Personal and ProprietaryOSQA is Free and Open Source
    • Hypersay Slides is Privacy focusedOSQA is not according to our users
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    Askalot is a next generation CQA (Community Question and Answer) system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. Niko icon
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    Niko makes it incredibly easy for employees at all levels to share what is on their mind by letting them submit, vote on, and respond to questions, ideas and suggestions. It creates a different employee engagement experience.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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