⚡ Internet Forum Software in Spain

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.

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.

Statistics based on 90K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 with an impressive share of 49.5%, followed by phpBB with 19.2% and XenForo with 14.5%.

bbPress 49.5%
phpBB 19.2%
XenForo 14.5%
vBulletin 5%
Simple Machines Forum 4.2%
Invision Community 3.4%
MyBB 1.8%
Discourse 1.1%
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 solutions 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	49.5%
2	phpBB Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom An open-source forum software written in PHP. FreeOpen source	19.2%
3	XenForo London, United Kingdom A commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL. $195+	14.5%
4	vBulletin El Segundo, California, United States A commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database. $179+	5%
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	4.2%
6	Invision Community Richmond, Virginia, United States A commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL. $99+/month	3.4%
7	MyBB An open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP. FreeOpen source	1.8%
8	Discourse Dover, Delaware, United States An open-source community platform built on Ruby on Rails. FreeOpen source$20+/month	1.1%
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 WebSocket, 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

🗃️ 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 90,669 websites from Spain.
We currently track the presence of 20 Internet forum software solutions across the web.
Of these, 13 were detected on websites from Spain.
Statistics were last calculated on May 21, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.