A fast and search engine friendly forum software for small and medium-size sites.

• Free

A user-friendly and fully customizable bulletin board package. It features unlimited forums/categories/members, IP address banning, powerful search, avatar support, smiley manager, ranks, HTML editor, moderator capability and more.

• Free

Run your own free forum hosting service. Users can create their forum, have complete control over the design and functionality, enable/disable image attachments, use smilies and profanity filters, and more.

• $30

Easy modification via templates, multiple forums, and e-mail followups and verification are just some of the features included in this forum script.

• Free

This forum comes with features for your users, moderators and admins, including an easy to use admin system, registered and unregistered users, private forums and access, notification emails, anti-spam image verification, and avatar and profile features for registered users.

• $59

This messageboard software is easy to install, configure, and integrate into your website. The threaded display format is more conducive to fast-paced, lively discussions. It features full admin capabilities, including group-based security, user admin, message admin and more.

• $59.95

Forum software that allows you to easily change the design and layout of your forum.

• Free
• $25

Easily put a forum on your website. Your visitors will be able to post new topics or reply to other topics. Using a password protected admin page you can manage all topics and forum options.

• $29
• $49

A highly customizable, multi-threaded, open-source forum. It features unlimited boards and categories, email notification of replies, bad language filtering and more.

• Free

This forum includes admin and moderator accounts, custom color schemes, user profiles and easy installation.

• Free

An easy to modify Forum equipped with many features. It has an admin and moderator area and you can change the appearance. Includes user profiles, a private messaging system, CAPTCHA spam protection, IP lock, BBcode and smiley support, RSS feeds, a news system, email verification, admin notification, bad word filter and more.

• Free

This forum includes user selectable skins, online user display, BBCode, smilies, HTML blocking, an extensive admin, easy installation and more.

• Free

php(Reactor) is a set of integrated open source web applications designed to encourage user interaction and facilitate easy website management. It includes forums, cards, polls, new and more.

• Free

A light-weight, easy to install, easy to run forum script.

• Free

A message board system designed to be user-friendly. It supports user modifications.

• Free

An open-source flat-file database bulletin board system that requires no outside access to a database such as MySQL. It's easy to configure and maintain.

• Free

A fast, feature rich bulletin board system that is fully object oriented and optimized for speed, ease of use, and easy modifications. It checks all inputs though a common interface which drastically reduces the chances of exploitable bugs. It includes a powerful and flexible skinning engine, and an advanced permissions system.

• Free

A fully customizable forum with advanced admin options. It features toplists, template conditionals syntax, unlimited custom fields, aliasing of threads, automatic resizing of avatars, friendly URLs with mod_rewrite, a sponsorship system, member guestbooks, instant messaging and more.

• Free
• $48.50

A simple and multilingual message board based on text files. It features a search engine, categories and filters. There is full admin for topics, answers and categories, as well as a backup system. Forum topics are displayed in a single window with color differentiation between categories. Categories can be filtered on a per-user basis.

• Free

A free and open source bulletin board written in PHP.

• Free

This forum/BBS board is designed to be small, simple, fast and allow easy intergation into any existing web site.

• Free

This message board was designed to be easily re-coded. It is a simple avatar message board that can be added to with libraries of PHP pages. It is compliant with XHTML 1.0, CSS and, with current library add-ons, RSS 2.0 or Atom 1.0.

• Free

A feature packed, affordable priced community product that includes an easy to use, fully-featured portal, a PayPal payment module, a fully featured photo gallery, multi-person private topics and more.

• $149

An add-on feature to VBulletin forums that will add keyword completion features to its search function. It will assist forum users in searching for content by suggesting accurate search terms to the user. It will integrate instantly into your VBulletin forum, and full customization and configuration is done from the admin panel.

• $120

An advanced Bulletin Board program that provides advanced features such as CAPTCHA, sub-board, skinning ability, multilingual, commercial password encryption and more.

• Free