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phpBB
Who runs phpBB, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest forum software alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- MyBB
Measured from phpBB’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit phpBB01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs phpBB
phpBB phpbb.com
Wikidata: open-source Internet forum package written in PHP
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What phpBB tracks
We couldn’t read phpbb.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to phpBB
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to phpBB, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read phpbb.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
MyBB - Free and Open Source Forum Software
The official homepage for MyBB, a free and open source PHP forum software.
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 Invision Community invisioncommunity.com
forum software written in PHP
Very close - 05
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 - 06 DokuWiki dokuwiki.org
wiki software
Very close - 07
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 - 08
Lothar of the Webspace
Very close - 09
Launchpad
software forge
Close - 10
e-learning platform
Very close - 11
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 - 12
phpMyAdmin
database administration tool
Close - 13
online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks
Close - 14
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.
Close - 15
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.
Close - 16
Backdrop CMS | Free Open Source CMS built in PHP
Backdrop CMS is a simple, lightweight, and easy to use Content Management System used to build attractive, professional websites.
Close - 17
Pastebin.com - #1 paste tool since 2002!
Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.
Close - 18
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close - 19
Cal.com | Scheduling Software for Online Bookings
The highest-rated scheduling system that helps you grow your business and better find time.
Close - 20
BookStack
BookStack is a simple, open-source, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles phpBB’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones phpBB 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 phpBB 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 · 2 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 45 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to phpBB’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
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5631bfae9c162de-HAM
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS erin.ns.cloudflare.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on phpbb.com 17/20
- Cloudflare 9/20
- Google Workspace · not on phpbb.com 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS 8/20
- Google Analytics · not on phpbb.com 5/20
- Mailchimp · not on phpbb.com 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on phpbb.com 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on phpbb.com 3/20
- SendGrid · not on phpbb.com 3/20
- HubSpot · not on phpbb.com 3/20
- nginx · not on phpbb.com 3/20
- Apple Business · not on phpbb.com 3/20
- jQuery · not on phpbb.com 2/20
- cdnjs · not on phpbb.com 2/20
- jsDelivr · not on phpbb.com 2/20
- YouTube embeds · not on phpbb.com 2/20