The Best 25 FUDforum Alternatives

  • phpBB

    Since its creation in 2000, phpBB™ has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB™ 3.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux PHP

  • 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.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • MyBB

    MyBB is the free and open source, intuitive, extensible, and incredibly powerful forum software you've been looking for.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • 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

  • Vanilla

    Vanilla provides a standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able and pluggablecommunity forum software that powers discussion forums on 800,000 sites.

    Freemium Web Self-Hosted

  • XenForo

    A compelling community experience. Intuitive. Social. Engaging. Fast. XenForo brings a fresh outlook to forum software.

    Commercial Windows Linux Web

  • IP.Board

    Invision Power Board (abbreviated IPB, IP.Board or IP Board) is an Internet forum software produced by Invision Power Services, Inc.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • 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 Cloudron MongoDB Redis

  • 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

  • Flazy

    A web application not bloated with superfluous features or complicated configuration settings. Flazy is a simple yet powerful tool — everything you need to use in a...

    Free Self-Hosted

  • C-BOARD

    Discussion Board for project collaboration with WBS-design, CFLX and advanced team mate profiles. Open Source, available for free, installed/ deployed within a few...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone

  • Phorum

    Phorum is open source forum software with a penchant for speed. Phorum's very flexible hook and module system can satisfy every web master's needs. Phorum...

    Free Open Source Self-Hosted

  • LayerBB

    LayerBB is a small yet feature rich community software which enables you to quickly and easily start your own community. It offers great flexibility and easily...

    Free Open Source Linux Web Self-Hosted

  • GZ Forum Scripts

    Gz Forum Scripts is an open source online forum software. It provides an easy way to manage posts, topic, replies, categories and more. GZ Forum Scripts is developed to...

    Commercial Web

  • PHP Forum Script

    PHP Forum Script by PHPJabbers is the perfect online forum software for all kinds of websites! It contains all must-have features of a modern, user-friendly forum...

    Commercial Windows Linux

  • Kunena

    Kunena is the ideal forum extension for Joomla. It's free, fully integrated, and no bridges or hacks are required. Want to know more about the Kunena Project? See...

    Free Self-Hosted Joomla