🆚 Flarum vs. phpBB
- 📈 phpBB is much more popular than Flarum.
- 🌍 phpBB is more popular in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Russia.
- 🌍 Flarum is more popular in China and Vietnam.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
Flarum is an open-source discussion platform written in 
PHP.
phpBB is an open-source forum software written in PHP.
It provides a flat topic and post structure with hierarchical sub-forums, user groups and permissions management, multiple attachments per post, full-text search, multilingual support across 50+ languages, and access to over 450 extensions and 280 themes in its official customization database.
Headquarters
Arnhem, Netherlands
Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Pricing
Free version ✔️ Open source
Managed hosting €50+/month
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #13
Internet Forum Software › Rank #3
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The phpBB Internet forum software is 22 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.
phpBB is more popular in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Russia, while Flarum is more popular in China and Vietnam.
Germany
United Kingdom
Russia
United States
France
Poland
Netherlands
Italy
Czech Republic
Spain
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Czech Republic in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
phpBB is more popular than Flarum in all market segments.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Recreation/Hobbies
Games
Technical/Business Forums
Entertainment
Sports
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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 3,653,460 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.