⚡ Internet Forum Software in Austria

Internet forums, also known as message boards or bulletin boards, are online discussion platforms that allow users to start discussions, post replies, and interact in an organized, threaded format.

Austria is a Central European country with a population of over 9 million people.

According to our statistics, Internet forum software is used on 0.3% of websites from Austria.

Statistics based on 29K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top Internet forum software in Austria in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is bbPress with an impressive share of 30.9%, followed by phpBB with 14.9% and WoltLab Suite with 11.7%.

bbPress 30.9%
phpBB 14.9%
WoltLab Suite 11.7%
XenForo 9.6%
OpenACS 6.4%
Invision Community 5.3%
Simple Machines Forum 4.3%
vBulletin 4.3%
Discourse 4.3%
Flarum 4.3%
MyBB 2.1%
Khoros Communities 1.1%
Vanilla 1.1%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top solutions that is more popular in Austria than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

2. phpBB ^(-1)
3. WoltLab Suite ^(-6)
5. OpenACS ^(-13)
10. Flarum ^(-3)
13. Vanilla ^(-3)

✨ Best Internet Forum Software

Below is a more detailed list of 13 Internet forum software solutions used on sites from Austria, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	bbPress San Francisco, California, United States A free plugin that adds forum functionality to WordPress websites. FreeOpen source	30.9%
2	phpBB Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom An open-source forum software written in PHP. FreeOpen source	14.9%
3	WoltLab Suite Potsdam, Germany A commercial software package designed for creating and managing online communities. €129.99+	11.7%
4	XenForo London, United Kingdom A commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL. $195+	9.6%
5	OpenACS An open-source toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications. FreeOpen source	6.4%
6	Invision Community Richmond, Virginia, United States A commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL. $99+/month	5.3%
7	Simple Machines Forum Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Open-source PHP forum software used to host and manage online community discussion boards with a SQL database backend. FreeOpen source	4.3%
8	vBulletin El Segundo, California, United States A commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database. $179+	4.3%
9	Discourse Dover, Delaware, United States An open-source community platform built on Ruby on Rails. FreeOpen source$20+/month	4.3%
10	Flarum Arnhem, Netherlands An open-source discussion platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source€50+/month	4.3%
11	MyBB An open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP. FreeOpen source	2.1%
12	Khoros Communities Austin, Texas, United States An enterprise-grade community management platform that enables organizations to build, manage, and scale branded online communities. $100,000+/year	1.1%
13	Vanilla Arlington, Virginia, United States An enterprise online community platform for B2B and B2C brands. $24,000+/year	1.1%

👉 See Also

🌎 Internet Forum Software in other countries

🗃️ 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 29,531 websites from Austria.
We currently track the presence of 20 Internet forum software solutions across the web.
Of these, 13 were detected on websites from Austria.
Statistics were last calculated on April 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.