Vanilla Forum Alternatives

Vanilla Forum is described as 'Vanilla provides a standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able and pluggablecommunity forum software that powers discussion forums on 800,000 sites' and is a Forum Software in the social & communications category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Vanilla Forum for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, Linux, Windows and Mac apps. The best Vanilla Forum alternative is Discourse. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Discourse or Flarum. Other great apps like Vanilla Forum are Simple Machines Forum, MyBB, XenForo and Apache Answer.

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  1. WoltLab Suite icon
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    WoltLab Suite (formerly Burning Board) is an enterprise grade CMS built for communities and forums.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  2. Storyden icon
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    With a fresh new take on traditional bulletin board forum software, Storyden is a modern, secure and extensible platform for building communities.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  3. Forem icon
     3 likes

    Forem is open source software for building modern and independent communities for your developers, peers, customers, users. Forem is already powering communities that serve over 10 million monthly unique visitors.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. PlushForums icon
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    Plush is the most polished, user-friendly forum experience ever, featuring real-time discussions, beautiful design, an integrated blog, member directory, private messaging, paid subscriptions and a world-class mobile experience.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. With Instaforum, you can build a forum website that's as simple and usable as a modern messaging app. It can be public or private, and users don't have to install anything. It's easy to set up, runs on your domain with your branding, and you control your data.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. Booklet icon
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    Booklet is a asynchronous discussion forum as an alternative to chat. It sends calm, automated summaries to everybody so that they stay informed and engaged - without having to stay logged in.

    49 Booklet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. Open Social icon
     5 likes

    Open Social is a purpose-built community engagement platform. Developed on top of a powerful open-source Drupal technology framework, Open Social allows organizations to create a central online hub for their members.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. Foru.ms icon
     3 likes

    Cloud Hosted Forum Communities.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. Spirit is a modern Python based forum built on top of Django framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. FUDforum icon
     3 likes

    FUDforum (Fast Uncompromising Discussion Forum) is a free and open source web discussion forum. FUDforum combines an extensive feature set while maintaining the ability to generate forum web pages extremely fast.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. ForumWP icon
     2 likes

    ForumWP is the best forum plugin for WordPress. Use ForumWP to add a forum to your website and create an online community.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  12. Flatboard icon
     13 likes

    A Simple, Lightweight, Modern and fast Flat-File Forum, using Json and Markdown or BBcode.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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