🆚 Flarum vs. MyBB
- 📈 MyBB is three times more popular than Flarum.
- 🌎 MyBB is more popular in Germany, the United States, and Poland.
- 🌍 Flarum is more popular in China, Austria, and Vietnam.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
Flarum is an open-source discussion platform written in 
PHP.
MyBB is an open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP.
Headquarters
Arnhem, Netherlands
Pricing
Free version ✔️Open source
Managed hosting€50+/month
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #13
Internet Forum Software › Rank #10
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The MyBB Internet forum software is 3 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.
MyBB is more popular in Germany, the United States, and Poland, while Flarum is more popular in China, Austria, and Vietnam.
Germany
United States
Poland
Turkey
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Russia
Indonesia
Iran
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Turkey in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Poland in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Germany in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
MyBB is more popular among sites focused on forum, bulletin boards, Internet services, and marketing and merchandising, while Flarum is more commonly used on games sites.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Internet Services
Games
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Technical/Business Forums
Motor Vehicles
Business
Software/Hardware
Technical Information
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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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.