🆚 Higher Logic Thrive vs. phpBB
- 📈 phpBB is much more popular than Higher Logic Thrive.
- 🌍 phpBB is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
Higher Logic Thrive is a cloud-based community platform for associations.
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
Arlington, Virginia, United States
Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Pricing
Free version ❌
$10,000+/year
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The phpBB Internet forum software is 14 times more popular than Higher Logic Thrive.
Total websites
Market share
Internet Forum Software
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
phpBB is more popular than Higher Logic Thrive in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Russia
France
Poland
Netherlands
Spain
Italy
Czech Republic
Awards
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⬆️ 57th most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 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.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
phpBB is more popular among sites focused on forum, bulletin boards, recreation and hobbies, and games, while Higher Logic Thrive is more commonly used on non-profit, advocacy and NGO, education and reference, and health sites.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Recreation/Hobbies
Games
Sports
Entertainment
Business
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
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 3,361,290 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
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