⚡ Internet Forum Software in Germany

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.

Germany is a Central European country with a population of around 84 million people.

According to our statistics, Internet forum software is used on 0.7% of websites from Germany.

Statistics based on 228K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is WoltLab Suite with a share of 26.9%, followed by phpBB with 18% and XenForo with 16%.

WoltLab Suite 26.9%
phpBB 18%
XenForo 16%
bbPress 12.9%
vBulletin 7.3%
Invision Community 5.2%
Discourse 4.6%
Simple Machines Forum 3.7%
MyBB 3.1%
Khoros Communities 0.7%
Flarum 0.7%
NodeBB 0.4%
Vanilla 0.3%
Discuz! 0.1%
Other 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. WoltLab Suite ^(-8)
2. phpBB ^(-1)
9. MyBB ^(-1)
10. Khoros Communities ^(-2)
11. Flarum ^(-2)
12. NodeBB ^(-2)
13. Vanilla ^(-3)

✨ Best Internet Forum Software

Below is a more detailed list of 15 Internet forum software solutions used on sites from Germany, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	WoltLab Suite Potsdam, Germany A commercial software package designed for creating and managing online communities. €129.99+	26.9%
2	phpBB Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom An open-source forum software written in PHP. FreeOpen source	18%
3	XenForo London, United Kingdom A commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL. $195+	16%
4	bbPress San Francisco, California, United States A free plugin that adds forum functionality to WordPress websites. FreeOpen source	12.9%
5	vBulletin El Segundo, California, United States A commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database. $179+	7.3%
6	Invision Community Richmond, Virginia, United States A commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL. $99+/month	5.2%
7	Discourse Dover, Delaware, United States An open-source community platform built on Ruby on Rails. FreeOpen source$20+/month	4.6%
8	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	3.7%
9	MyBB An open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP. FreeOpen source	3.1%
10	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	0.7%
11	Flarum Arnhem, Netherlands An open-source discussion platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source€50+/month	0.7%
12	NodeBB An open-source forum software built with Node.js that supports real-time streaming discussions, instant notifications via WebSocket, multiple database backends (Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL), mobile-friendly responsive design, and a REST API. FreeOpen source$20+/month	0.4%
13	Vanilla Arlington, Virginia, United States An enterprise online community platform for B2B and B2C brands. $24,000+/year	0.3%
14	Discuz! Hefei, China A Chinese Internet forum software written in PHP. Free18,800 RMB+	0.1%
15	PunBB A fast and lightweight PHP-based open source discussion board. FreeOpen source	0.06%

👉 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 228,041 websites from Germany.
We currently track the presence of 20 Internet forum software solutions across the web.
Of these, 15 were detected on websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on April 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.