⚡ Internet Forum Software in Portugal

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.

Portugal is a Southern European country with a population of around 10.3 million people.

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

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is bbPress with an impressive share of 36.5%, followed by Simple Machines Forum with 13.5% and XenForo with 13.5%.

🚀 Highlights

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

✨ Best Internet Forum Software

Below is a more detailed list of 10 Internet forum software solutions used on sites from Portugal, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
bbPress
San Francisco, California, United States

A free plugin that adds forum functionality to WordPress websites.

FreeOpen source
2
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
3
XenForo
London, United Kingdom

A commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL.

$195+
4
phpBB
Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

An open-source forum software written in PHP.

FreeOpen source
5
Invision Community
Richmond, Virginia, United States

A commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL.

$99+/month
6
vBulletin
El Segundo, California, United States

A commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database.

$179+
7
Flarum
Arnhem, Netherlands

An open-source discussion platform written in PHP.

FreeOpen source€50+/month
8
Discourse
Dover, Delaware, United States

An open-source community platform built on Ruby on Rails.

FreeOpen source$20+/month
9
MyBB

An open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP.

FreeOpen source
10
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

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 14,630 websites from Portugal.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.