⚡ Internet Forum Software in Iran

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.

Iran is a Western Asian country with a population of over 89 million people.

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

Statistics based on 21K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is bbPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 53.3% share.
It is followed by Invision Community with 14.1% and XenForo with 10.9%.

bbPress 53.3%
Invision Community 14.1%
XenForo 10.9%
vBulletin 8.7%
MyBB 8.7%
phpBB 2.2%
Simple Machines Forum 1.1%
Discourse 1.1%
Discuz! 1.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Invision Community ^(-2)
4. vBulletin ^(-1)
5. MyBB ^(-5)

✨ Best Internet Forum Software

Below is a more detailed list of 9 Internet forum software solutions used on sites from Iran, 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	53.3%
2	Invision Community Richmond, Virginia, United States A commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL. $99+/month	14.1%
3	XenForo London, United Kingdom A commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL. $195+	10.9%
4	vBulletin El Segundo, California, United States A commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database. $179+	8.7%
5	MyBB An open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP. FreeOpen source	8.7%
6	phpBB Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom An open-source forum software written in PHP. FreeOpen source	2.2%
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	1.1%
8	Discourse Dover, Delaware, United States An open-source community platform built on Ruby on Rails. FreeOpen source$20+/month	1.1%
9	Discuz! Hefei, China A Chinese Internet forum software written in PHP. Free18,800 RMB+	1.1%

🗃️ 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 21,292 websites from Iran.
We currently track the presence of 20 Internet forum software solutions across the web.
Of these, 9 were detected on websites from Iran.
Statistics were last calculated on April 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.