Top 11 Open-Source Alternatives to Vanilla Forums

Product categories

Community Management Community Platform Content Monetization Customer Engagement Forums Forums And Forum Software Knowledge Sharing Online Community Social Networks Social News User Engagement

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Vanilla Forums are Discourse, phpBB, and NodeBB. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Discourse Landing Page
1

Discourse

Discourse is an open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $100.0 / Monthly
#Forums #Forums And Forum Software #Community Platform 23 social mentions
phpBB Landing Page
2

phpBB

Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a cheap, credit-card sized computer. The official website uses phpBB for their discussion forums. phpBB is not affiliated with nor responsible for any of the sites listed on the showcase.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Forums And Forum Software #Forums #Community Platform 2 social mentions
NodeBB Landing Page
3

NodeBB

NodeBB Forum Software - A better community platform for the modern web. NodeBB is a next generation forum software that's free and easy to use.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Forums And Forum Software #Forums #Community Platform 3 social mentions
PunBB Landing Page
4

PunBB

PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Forums And Forum Software #Forums #Community Platform
MyBB Landing Page
5

MyBB

MyBB is a discussion board software that runs on PHP and MySQL
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Forums And Forum Software #Forums #Community Platform 8 social mentions
Flarum Landing Page
6

Flarum

Flarum is the next-generation forum software that makes online discussion fun. It's simple, fast, and free.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Forums And Forum Software #Forums #Community Platform 34 social mentions
FluxBB Landing Page
7

FluxBB

FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Forums And Forum Software #Forums #Community Platform 3 social mentions
Simple Machines Forum Landing Page
8

Simple Machines Forum

Simple Machines offers free open source software such as SMF, the powerful and easy to use community forum written in PHP. Start interesting discussions on your website!
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Forums And Forum Software #Forums #Community Platform 4 social mentions
Public Community Landing Page
9

Public Community

We help brands build their own social network. Fully self-hosted & no monthly fees.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- $300.0 / One-off (Hosted on your server. No monthly fees.)
#Community Platform #Forums And Forum Software #Forums 1 user reviews
Scrile Connect Landing Page
10

Scrile Connect

Scrile Connect — turnkey SaaS solution to launch a Social Media content monatization platform with paid subscriptions
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $10.0 / Monthly (Startup package)
#Community Platform #User Engagement #Content Monetization
SaidIt.net Landing Page
11

SaidIt.net

Saidit.net - say your truth.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Social Networks #Knowledge Sharing #Social News 130 social mentions