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MyBB
Who runs MyBB, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest forum software alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- phpBB
Measured from MyBB’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit MyBB01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs MyBB
MyBB mybb.com
The official homepage for MyBB, a free and open source PHP forum software.
Wikidata: open-source forum software
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
02 · Privacy
What MyBB tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 14 alternatives below has fewer; 9 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to MyBB
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to MyBB, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
open-source Internet forum package written in PHP
Very close - 02
The extensible community framework - Flarum
Free, open-source forum software built by the community. Beautiful, fast, and extensible — made for communities of all sizes.
Very close - 03 XenForo xenforo.com
Internet forum software
Very close - 04
Discourse | One platform. Any community.
Discourse is the customizable, scalable community platform powering more than 22,000 communities that create knowledge through conversation.
Very close - 05 Invision Community invisioncommunity.com
forum software written in PHP
Very close - 06
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Very close - 07 DokuWiki dokuwiki.org
wiki software
Very close - 08
e-learning platform
Very close - 09
Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
Very close - 10
MainWP: Manage Multiple WordPress Sites, Self-Hosted
Manage multiple WordPress sites from your own MainWP Dashboard. Self-hosted and open source, with unlimited sites and no per-site fees.
Very close - 11
Laravel - The clean stack for Artisans and agents
Laravel is a framework for building modern web apps and AI agents. Expressive syntax, built-in tools, and everything you need to ship fast.
Very close - 12
Launchpad
software forge
Very close - 13
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close - 14
online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks
Very close - 15
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Very close - 16
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the open-source ecommerce platform that helps merchants and developers build successful businesses for the long term.
Very close - 17
Compare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForge
SourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison site in the world, and features the largest business software directory, as well as free & fast open source software downloads and development.
Very close - 18
Create a blog or website for free and make money online - Altervista
Do you want to create a website for free? Find out how to do it on Altervista: open a blog or a website quickly and easily and start making money online. Altervista is free of charge forever
Very close - 19
Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo
From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.
Very close - 20
The Free Software Media System | Jellyfin
The volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles MyBB’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones MyBB uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what MyBB adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 59 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to MyBB’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Asap:400,600,600i|Open+Sans:300,400,700
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577b990ecf099cd-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS igor.ns.cloudflare.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on mybb.com 17/20
- Google Workspace 8/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS 7/20
- Mailchimp · not on mybb.com 6/20
- nginx · not on mybb.com 5/20
- Font Awesome · not on mybb.com 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on mybb.com 4/20
- Mailchimp Transactional · not on mybb.com 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on mybb.com 3/20
- YouTube embeds · not on mybb.com 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on mybb.com 3/20
- Zendesk · not on mybb.com 3/20
- Google Fonts 3/20
- PHP · not on mybb.com 3/20
- WordPress · not on mybb.com 3/20