vichan Alternatives

vichan is described as 'A modern, full featured and actively developed imageboard engine (similar to Futaba, Kusaba and 4chan). Based on (and compatible with) Tinyboard' and is a Imageboard in the social & communications category. There are seven alternatives to vichan for a variety of platforms, including Online / Web-based, Self-Hosted solutions, NGINX, Apache HTTP Server and PHP. The best alternative is Kusaba X, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like vichan are FoolFuuka, Wakaba, Saguaro Imageboard and Project Mitsuba.

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vichan

Free • Open Source
Imageboard

Online
MySQL Community Edition
MariaDB
PHP

A modern, full featured and actively developed imageboard engine (similar to Futaba, Kusaba and 4chan). Based on (and...

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Kusaba X
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Free • Open Source
Imageboard
Online
8 alternatives to Kusaba X
Kusaba X is open source imageboard software written in PHP, a continuation of the kusaba imageboard software, which Trevor has quit supporting. While other Kusaba derivatives are adding more bloat than functionality, Kusaba X is determined on...

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Discontinued
Website returns 403 forbidden error, SourceForge repo not updated since 2013.
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FoolFuuka
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No
Free • Open Source
Imageboard
Online
MySQL Community Edition
Self-Hosted
NGINX
Apache HTTP Server
PHP
8 alternatives to FoolFuuka
FoolFuuka was designed to serve two different purposes: (1) as a front-end for Asagi, a 4chan fetcher, and (2) an image-based bulletin board.

FoolFuuka has no features, suggest some!
Wakaba
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Free • Open Source
Imageboard
Online
8 alternatives to Wakaba
Wakaba is an image board script very strictly modelled after the Futaba and Futallaby scripts. Wakaba borrows quite a bit of HTML code and translated text from Futallaby.

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Saguaro Imageboard
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Free • Open Source
Imageboard
Online
7 alternatives to Saguaro Imageboard
Saguaro is a small branch of the image board software Futallaby .

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Discontinued
Last update seems to have been from 2018. See https://github.com/saguaroib/saguaro
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Project Mitsuba
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Free • Open Source
Imageboard
Online
7 alternatives to Project Mitsuba
Project Mitsuba is an opensource (AGPLv3 licensed) image board software written in PHP and using MySQLi.

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TinyIB
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No
Free • Open Source
Imageboard
Mac
Windows
Linux
9 alternatives to TinyIB
Lightweight PHP image board with MySQL, SQLite, or flat file database support. Very easy to install and use.

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LynxChan
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Free • Open Source
Imageboard
Self-Hosted
7 alternatives to LynxChan
LynxChan is an imageboard/chan engine with the following goals:

Fully support users not using javascript. Make information available in json format. Support the most amount of users with the least hardware power. Modular front-end.

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Kusaba X

FoolFuuka

Wakaba

Saguaro Imageboard

Project Mitsuba

TinyIB

LynxChan