⚡ Internet Forum Software in Spain

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

Spain is a Southern European country with a population of around 48 million people.

According to our statistics, Internet forum software is used on 0.4% of websites from Spain.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is bbPress, which dominates the market with a substantial 50.4% share.
It is followed by phpBB with 17.4% and XenForo with 14.6%.

bbPress 50.4%
phpBB 17.4%
XenForo 14.6%
vBulletin 5.6%
Simple Machines Forum 4.5%
Invision Community 3.6%
MyBB 1.7%
Discourse 0.8%
WoltLab Suite 0.3%
Discuz! 0.3%
Khoros Communities 0.3%
OpenACS 0.3%
NodeBB 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. phpBB ^(-1)
4. vBulletin ^(-1)
5. Simple Machines Forum ^(-2)
7. MyBB ^(-3)
11. Khoros Communities ^(-1)
12. OpenACS ^(-6)
13. NodeBB ^(-1)

✨ Best Internet Forum Software

Below is a more detailed list of 13 Internet forum software solutions used on sites from Spain, 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	50.4%
2	phpBB Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom An open-source forum software written in PHP. FreeOpen source	17.4%
3	XenForo London, United Kingdom A commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL. $195+	14.6%
4	vBulletin El Segundo, California, United States A commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database. $179+	5.6%
5	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	4.5%
6	Invision Community Richmond, Virginia, United States A commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL. $99+/month	3.6%
7	MyBB An open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP. FreeOpen source	1.7%
8	Discourse Dover, Delaware, United States An open-source community platform built on Ruby on Rails. FreeOpen source$20+/month	0.8%
9	WoltLab Suite Potsdam, Germany A commercial software package designed for creating and managing online communities. €129.99+	0.3%
10	Discuz! Hefei, China A Chinese Internet forum software written in PHP. Free18,800 RMB+	0.3%
11	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	0.3%
12	OpenACS An open-source toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications. FreeOpen source	0.3%
13	NodeBB An open-source forum software built with Node.js that supports real-time streaming discussions, instant notifications via WebSockets, multiple database backends (Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL), mobile-friendly responsive design, and a REST API. FreeOpen source$20+/month	0.3%

👉 See Also

🌎 Internet Forum Software in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 84,980 websites from Spain.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.