⚡ Internet Forum Software in the United Kingdom

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.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

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

Statistics based on 171K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is bbPress with a share of 28.3%, followed by phpBB with 27% and XenForo with 17.6%.

bbPress 28.3%
phpBB 27%
XenForo 17.6%
Invision Community 9.4%
Discourse 5.6%
Simple Machines Forum 4%
vBulletin 3.6%
MyBB 1.6%
Khoros Communities 0.8%
Flarum 0.5%
Verint Community 0.4%
NodeBB 0.4%
WoltLab Suite 0.3%
Higher Logic Thrive 0.3%
Other 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. phpBB ^(-1)
5. Discourse ^(-1)
6. Simple Machines Forum ^(-1)
8. MyBB ^(-2)
9. Khoros Communities ^(-3)
10. Flarum ^(-3)
11. Verint Community ^(-5)
12. NodeBB ^(-2)

✨ Best Internet Forum Software

Below is a more detailed list of 16 Internet forum software solutions used on sites from the United Kingdom, 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	28.3%
2	phpBB Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom An open-source forum software written in PHP. FreeOpen source	27%
3	XenForo London, United Kingdom A commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL. $195+	17.6%
4	Invision Community Richmond, Virginia, United States A commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL. $99+/month	9.4%
5	Discourse Dover, Delaware, United States An open-source community platform built on Ruby on Rails. FreeOpen source$20+/month	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%
7	vBulletin El Segundo, California, United States A commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database. $179+	3.6%
8	MyBB An open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP. FreeOpen source	1.6%
9	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	0.8%
10	Flarum Arnhem, Netherlands An open-source discussion platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source€50+/month	0.5%
11	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	0.4%
12	NodeBB Toronto, Ontario, Canada An open-source forum software built with Node.js that supports real-time streaming discussions, instant notifications via WebSockets, multiple database backends such as Redis, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL, and a REST API. FreeOpen source$20+/month	0.4%
13	WoltLab Suite Potsdam, Germany A commercial software package designed for creating and managing online communities. €129.99+	0.3%
14	Higher Logic Thrive Arlington, Virginia, United States A cloud-based community platform for associations. $10,000+/year	0.3%
15	Discuz! Hefei, China A Chinese Internet forum software written in PHP. Free18,800 CNY+	0.2%
16	PunBB A fast and lightweight PHP-based open-source discussion board. FreeOpen source	0.09%

👉 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 171,537 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 20 Internet forum software solutions across the web.
Of these, 16 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on August 21, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.