⚡ Internet Forum Software in India

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.

India is a South Asian country with a population of over 1.4 billion people.

According to our statistics, Internet forum software is used on 0.2% of websites from India.

Statistics based on 69K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is bbPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 62.8% share.
It is followed by XenForo with 12.4% and phpBB with 4.4%.

bbPress 62.8%
XenForo 12.4%
phpBB 4.4%
vBulletin 3.5%
Invision Community 3.5%
NodeBB 3.5%
Simple Machines Forum 2.7%
Discourse 2.7%
MyBB 2.7%
Discuz! 0.9%
Higher Logic Thrive 0.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. vBulletin ^(-1)
6. NodeBB ^(-8)
9. MyBB ^(-1)

✨ Best Internet Forum Software

Below is a more detailed list of 11 Internet forum software solutions used on sites from India, 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	62.8%
2	XenForo London, United Kingdom A commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL. $195+	12.4%
3	phpBB Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom An open-source forum software written in PHP. FreeOpen source	4.4%
4	vBulletin El Segundo, California, United States A commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database. $179+	3.5%
5	Invision Community Richmond, Virginia, United States A commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL. $99+/month	3.5%
6	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	3.5%
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	2.7%
8	Discourse Dover, Delaware, United States An open-source community platform built on Ruby on Rails. FreeOpen source$20+/month	2.7%
9	MyBB An open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP. FreeOpen source	2.7%
10	Discuz! Hefei, China A Chinese Internet forum software written in PHP. Free18,800 RMB+	0.9%
11	Higher Logic Thrive Arlington, Virginia, United States A cloud-based community platform for associations. $10,000+/year	0.9%

👉 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 69,549 websites from India.
We currently track the presence of 20 Internet forum software solutions across the web.
Of these, 11 were detected on websites from India.
Statistics were last calculated on May 6, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.