🆚 bbPress vs. Flarum
- 📈 bbPress is much more popular than Flarum.
- 🌍 bbPress is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Flarum is particularly popular in Germany.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
bbPressType
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
bbPress is a free plugin that adds forum functionality to 
WordPress websites.
It offers simple forum setup, integration with WordPress user accounts, support for subscriptions, tags, search, and shortcodes, and is extensible through additional plugins.
Flarum is an open-source discussion platform written in 
PHP.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Arnhem, Netherlands
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Open source
Managed hosting€50+/month
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The bbPress Internet forum software is 47 times more popular than Flarum.
Total websites
Market share
Internet Forum Software
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
bbPress is more popular than Flarum in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Japan
France
Spain
Italy
Canada
Netherlands
Russia
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
bbPress is more popular than Flarum in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Internet Services
Sports
Health
Entertainment
Games
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Simple Machines Forum🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,361,290 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.