Top 15 Vanilla Alternative and Similar Softwares | Mar 2024

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

It's available in two editions: an opensource and self-hosted version and an optimized cloud hosted version with premium features.

1. Kunena

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 how the open source philosophy drives our community, follow our development on GitHub, and how you can participate to make Kunena even better.......

2. AsmBB

AsmBB AsmBB is high performance web forum software, written entirely in assembly language. It is very lightweight, but provides decent set of features and ultimate performance.......

3. Flarum

Flarum Flarum is free, open-source forum software with a focus on simplicity. You can use Flarum to easily set up a discussion forum for your website. Flarum is developed openly on GitHub.It is the combined successor of esoTalk and FluxBB. It aims to be:Fast and simple. No clutter, no bloat, no......

4. FUDforum

FUDforum 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. The forum includes i18n and templating support allowing for a complete customization of its output as well as a......

5. DuckDuckGo Community Platform

DuckDuckGo Community Platform An open source forum software made by DuckDuckGo that is being used at https://duck.co/forum .......

6. PunBB.NET

PunBB.NET PunBB.NET is a forum written using the ASP.NET technology.This forum is simple, fast and lightweight. The forum's core itself is only a basis, which allows attaching various extensions to it. This makes it possible for you to have a discussion board,which can be fine-tuned to meet all your requirements prefectly.PunBB.NET......

7. Twincl

Twincl Twincl is characterized by forum (including link sharing), Q&A, review and blog sites, using CommonMark as its writing format. Twincl features innovative Markdown editing, topic trees, voting/remarks, selected posts, senior authors, logarithmic scales, and more.All public contents on Twincl sites are free to read, but only paid Community members may......

8. Yahoo! Groups

Yahoo! Groups Yahoo! Groups is one of the world’s largest collections of online discussion boards. The term Groups refers to Internet communication which is a hybrid between an electronic mailing list and a threaded Internet forum, in other words, Group messages can be read and posted by e-mail or on the Group's......

9. Discourse

Discourse Discourse is an opensource discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. A modern forum, everything's been redesigned to be easy.Self-hosted Discourse software is free, hosting service is paid.......

10. Spirit-Project

Spirit-Project Spirit is a modern discussion platform.NotificationsReceive an automatic notification everytime someone mentions your @name, quotes you or answers to your conversation.Private ConversationsCreate your own private conversations and invite as many users as you want to it.BookmarksSpirit automatically registers which was the last comment you read on a conversation.ArchiveSpirit saves......

11. Hidden & Dangerous (Series)

Hidden & Dangerous (Series) Hidden & Dangerous is about four-man squad of soldiers of the SAS during World War 2. It is a 3rd person/1st person, tactical action game. The mix of both tactical action and strategy.......

12. Realtidbits

Realtidbits Powering the Realtime Social Layer for Entertainment, Local Media and High Traffic Blogs. Realtidbits was acquired by Livefyre.com.......

13. vBulletin

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.......

14. blackd00r

blackd00r BlackDoor custom firmware for iPhone or iPod Touch. iOS3 inspirated newer iOS. Best firmware for older device.Available for both iphone 2g/3g in locked/unlocked mode......

15. Tapatalk

Tapatalk Tapatalk is a forum app on the Symbian, iPhone, Android,windows phone, kindle fire and BlackBerry. Tapatalk Forum App provides super fast on-the-go forum access to any vBulletin, IPBoard, phpBB or SMF forum that has activated our Tapatalk plugin. Try it now to see why so many forums adopted it to......