Wakaba Alternatives

    Wakaba is described as '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' and is an website in the Development category. There are eight alternatives to Wakaba, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including MySQL Community Edition, Self-Hosted solutions, PHP and Mac. The best alternative is Kusaba X, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Wakaba are vichan (Free, Open Source), FoolFuuka (Free, Open Source), Saguaro Imageboard (Free, Open Source) and Glaukaba (Free, Open Source).

    This page was last updated Mar 5, 2021

    1. Kusaba X

      • Free • Open Source
      • Online
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      Kusaba X is open source imageboard software written in PHP, a continuation of the kusaba imageboard software, which Trevor has quit supporting.

      Discontinued

      Website returns 403 forbidden error, SourceForge repo not updated since 2013.

      No screenshots yet

    2. vichan

      • Free • Open Source
      • Online
      • MySQL Community Edition
      • MariaDB
      • PHP
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      A modern, full featured and actively developed imageboard engine (similar to Futaba, Kusaba and 4chan). Based on (and compatible with) Tinyboard.
      No screenshots yet

    4. FoolFuuka

      • Free • Open Source
      • Online
      • MySQL Community Edition
      • Self-Hosted
      • NGINX
      • Apache HTTP Server
      • PHP
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      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.
    5. Saguaro is a small branch of the image board software futallaby.

      Discontinued

      Last update seems to have been from 2018. See https://github.com/saguaroib/saguaro

      No screenshots yet

    6. Glaukaba

      • Free • Open Source
      • Online
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      Glaukaba is a Wakaba (an imageboard script) fork with many additional features and enhancements including WebM and FastCGI support.
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    8. TinyIB

      • Free • Open Source
      • Mac
      • Windows
      • Linux
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      Lightweight PHP image board with MySQL, SQLite, or flat file database support. Very easy to install and use.
    9. Project Mitsuba is an opensource (AGPLv3 licensed) image board software written in PHP and using MySQLi.
      No screenshots yet

    10. LynxChan

      • Free • Open Source
      • Self-Hosted
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      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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