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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

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01 · 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.

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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.

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  1. 01
    phpBB phpbb.com Top 10K English

    open-source Internet forum package written in PHP

    Compare phpBB with MyBB →
  2. 02
    Flarum flarum.org English 1 tracker

    The extensible community framework - Flarum

    Free, open-source forum software built by the community. Beautiful, fast, and extensible — made for communities of all sizes.

    Compare Flarum with MyBB →
  3. 03
    XenForo xenforo.com

    Internet forum software

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  4. 04
    Discourse discourse.org English 2 trackers

    Discourse | One platform. Any community.

    Discourse is the customizable, scalable community platform powering more than 22,000 communities that create knowledge through conversation.

    Compare Discourse with MyBB →
  5. 05
    Invision Community invisioncommunity.com

    forum software written in PHP

    Compare Invision Community with MyBB →
  6. 06
    WordPress wordpress.org Top 100 English 1 tracker

    Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org

    Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

    Compare WordPress with MyBB →
  7. 07
    DokuWiki dokuwiki.org

    wiki software

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  8. 08
    Moodle moodle.org Top 10K

    e-learning platform

    Compare Moodle with MyBB →
  9. 09
    Ghost ghost.org Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Ghost with MyBB →
  10. 10
    MainWP mainwp.com English 2 trackers

    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.

    Compare MainWP with MyBB →
  11. 11
    Laravel laravel.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    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.

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  12. 12
    Launchpad launchpad.net Top 1K English No trackers

    Launchpad

    software forge

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  13. 13
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

    Compare Drupal with MyBB →
  14. 14
    Ning ning.com Top 10K

    online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks

    Compare Ning with MyBB →
  15. 15
    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English No trackers

    MediaWiki

    free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation

    Compare MediaWiki with MyBB →
  16. 16
    WooCommerce woocommerce.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    WooCommerce

    WooCommerce is the open-source ecommerce platform that helps merchants and developers build successful businesses for the long term.

    Compare WooCommerce with MyBB →
  17. 17
    SourceForge sourceforge.net Top 1K English 3 trackers

    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.

    Compare SourceForge with MyBB →
  18. 18
    Altervista altervista.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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

    Compare Altervista with MyBB →
  19. 19
    Odoo odoo.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo

    From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.

    Compare Odoo with MyBB →
  20. 20
    Jellyfin jellyfin.org English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Jellyfin with MyBB →

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

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

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