⚡ Internet Forum Software in France

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.

France is a Western European country with a population of around 69 million people.

According to our statistics, Internet forum software is used on 0.6% of websites from France.

Statistics based on 112K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is phpBB with an impressive share of 33.7%, followed by bbPress with 27.8% and Invision Community with 11.5%.

phpBB 33.7%
bbPress 27.8%
Invision Community 11.5%
XenForo 8.3%
vBulletin 5.6%
Simple Machines Forum 4.4%
Discourse 4.4%
MyBB 1.2%
WoltLab Suite 0.9%
Flarum 0.6%
Khoros Communities 0.5%
PunBB 0.5%
Higher Logic Thrive 0.3%
Verint Community 0.2%
Other 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. phpBB ^(-2)
3. Invision Community ^(-1)
6. Simple Machines Forum ^(-1)
8. MyBB ^(-2)
10. Flarum ^(-3)
11. Khoros Communities ^(-1)
12. PunBB ^(-3)
14. Verint Community ^(-3)

✨ Best Internet Forum Software

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

Rank	Name	Market share
1	phpBB Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom An open-source forum software written in PHP. FreeOpen source	33.7%
2	bbPress San Francisco, California, United States A free plugin that adds forum functionality to WordPress websites. FreeOpen source	27.8%
3	Invision Community Richmond, Virginia, United States A commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL. $99+/month	11.5%
4	XenForo London, United Kingdom A commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL. $195+	8.3%
5	vBulletin El Segundo, California, United States A commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database. $179+	5.6%
6	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	4.4%
7	Discourse Dover, Delaware, United States An open-source community platform built on Ruby on Rails. FreeOpen source$20+/month	4.4%
8	MyBB An open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP. FreeOpen source	1.2%
9	WoltLab Suite Potsdam, Germany A commercial software package designed for creating and managing online communities. €129.99+	0.9%
10	Flarum Arnhem, Netherlands An open-source discussion platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source€50+/month	0.6%
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	0.5%
12	PunBB A fast and lightweight PHP-based open source discussion board. FreeOpen source	0.5%
13	Higher Logic Thrive Arlington, Virginia, United States A cloud-based community platform for associations. $10,000+/year	0.3%
14	Verint Community Melville, New York, United States A community platform that provides an integrated suite of applications such as forums, blogs, articles, wikis, and media galleries. $50,000+/year	0.2%
15	Discuz! Hefei, China A Chinese Internet forum software written in PHP. Free18,800 RMB+	0.2%

👉 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 112,531 websites from France.
We currently track the presence of 20 Internet forum software solutions across the web.
Of these, 15 were detected on websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on April 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.