⚡ Internet Forum Software in Portugal

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.

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.

Statistics based on 15K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 37%, followed by Simple Machines Forum with 13% and XenForo with 13%.

bbPress 37%
Simple Machines Forum 13%
XenForo 13%
phpBB 9.3%
vBulletin 9.3%
Invision Community 9.3%
Flarum 3.7%
Discourse 1.9%
MyBB 1.9%
Khoros Communities 1.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Simple Machines Forum ^(-5)
7. Flarum ^(-6)
9. MyBB ^(-1)
10. Khoros Communities ^(-2)

✨ 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.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	bbPress San Francisco, California, United States A free plugin that adds forum functionality to WordPress websites. FreeOpen source	37%
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	13%
3	XenForo London, United Kingdom A commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL. $195+	13%
4	phpBB Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom An open-source forum software written in PHP. FreeOpen source	9.3%
5	vBulletin El Segundo, California, United States A commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database. $179+	9.3%
6	Invision Community Richmond, Virginia, United States A commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL. $99+/month	9.3%
7	Flarum Arnhem, Netherlands An open-source discussion platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source€50+/month	3.7%
8	Discourse Dover, Delaware, United States An open-source community platform built on Ruby on Rails. FreeOpen source$20+/month	1.9%
9	MyBB An open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP. FreeOpen source	1.9%
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	1.9%

👉 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 15,007 websites from Portugal.
We currently track the presence of 20 Internet forum software solutions across the web.
Of these, 10 were detected on websites from Portugal.
Statistics were last calculated on May 6, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.