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ProBoards
ProBoards
Simple, fast, easy to use, and fun these are words commonly used to describe ProBoards' free forum hosting service. Whether you're new to message boards or an experienced moderator, we invite you to review our features and start your new ProBoards forum today. Creating a new forum takes less than 30 seconds and immediately after that you can begin inviting your friends and colleagues to browse your new forum and start discussing topics! If you have questions or need help, our Support Forum community is the best in the business. Join the over 16 million monthly visitors on the Internet's largest, most enjoyed free forum hosting service. We offer additional premium forum options including the ability to use your own custom domain name, remove advertising from your forum, and the ability to change your forum URL.Starting Price: $49.99 per month -
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Papermind
Papermind
Create, edit and share articles with your team members. Drag and drop documents or link to your G Suite content and more. Store all of your articles and files in one place. Create organized collections and improve visibility through tags. Share articles and files with your team through Slack. Get started by downloading Papermind and then sign in with Slack. Create beautiful articles using our simple text editor. Use the formatting toolbar to apply styles, links and more. Create a great reading experience for your team. Drag and drop in images, link to files and external links and more. Create powerful associations between articles by adding tags. Use tags to build powerful collections of content. Simply drag all your files, documents or media into Papermind at once. We’ll handle the rest. The global search will index all of your content. Simply type in a keyword to discover your files, media and links.Starting Price: $19 per 10 users per month -
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Guild
Guild
Guild is a platform for professional communities and networking. It's easy to use and mobile-first, like a consumer messaging app, but purpose-built for professionals and businesses: Ad-free, privacy by design, custom-branded, with admin and analytics. Elegant user experience - simple, elegant design; mobile-first; service and support; custom branding. High levels of professional conduct - moderation features; professional profiles so users are `present`, accountable and can connect with others. Data protection - GDPR compliant, you control your data.Starting Price: $0 -
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Forem
Forem
Rally around common obsessions. Features like our news feed fuse the best of social media with modern community. Publish your thoughts in any form they come. Markdown, rich text, images and video sharing. Empower your users with notifications, rich member profiles, and badges to reward activity. We're pioneers in safe and inclusive community building. We provide best-in-class tooling so your community can do the same. Embedded SEO tooling ensures your highly valuable user generated content will be indexed and discovered by current and future users. The platform enables you to do just about anything through custom pages, from unique static content to running a live conference with thousands of participants. Enable thoughtful, longform, async communication out in the open. Facilitate better product roadmapping through tight feedback loops.Starting Price: Free -
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Ternary
Asset Entities Inc.
Ternary integrates your website, payment processor, and Discord to create a seamless “ternary” connection. We’ve shortened and simplified the entire integration process! You can now easily sell memberships directly on your website, immediately collect payments through Stripe (can payout daily!), and securely authenticate them into Discord all in a matter of seconds! Our platform is clean and user-friendly allowing you to make quick changes through clicks and not code! Configure everything from the products on your website to permissions and roles within Discord when a user enters. The tools are now in your hands! Our sophisticated Discord Bot is another employee handling all the manual work for you, giving you back time to focus on growing your community! It will authenticate a new user into your private server, assign a customizable permission set, and remove that user instantly when their subscription expires!Starting Price: $50 per month -
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Nabble
Nabble
All Nabble apps are naturally embeddable, which means that they can be easily displayed on any web page. All Nabble apps are built with NAML, a scripting language that gives you full control over the app pages. We can help with technical questions related to your Nabble apps, embedding, customizations, NAML language, bugs, and other issues. From now on Nabble users can switch from HTTP to HTTPS protocol. Nabble wants to improve public discussions on the web and provide useful embeddable applications to end-users. This includes forums, user groups, message boards, photo galleries, newspapers, blogs, etc. There are many vibrant discussions in these places, and so are problems such as cluttered UI, broken search, moderation, and cataloging. Nabble wants to be a place where your discussion can grow and be free of these problems. Nabble is absolutely free and will remain free to the users. This includes the end users and webmasters.Starting Price: Free -
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Univents
Univents
One app for all of your experiences and events. Bring together what belongs together, from event discovery to organization and management. Find the coolest events in town and meet up with your friends with a single click. Manage all your organizational needs in one place and increase your revenue by building a strong community. Supercharge your events. Manage your staff, inventory, and orders with ease and increase revenues with a simplified ordering process. One-click is all it takes to meet old friends or make new ones. Our app offers experiences for everyone, from parties and concerts to plays and sporting events. So there are no more excuses to sit around alone on your couch! Especially for organizers and restaurateurs, a complete existence has collapsed. That's why we provide solutions for them to manage events and pubs simply and inexpensively. Through the connection with our social network, community functions and more reach in the target group are available for free.Starting Price: Free -
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Unibuddy
Unibuddy
Our scalable platform gives you the tools and insights to engage prospective students — during the entire enrollment journey. The result? You empower students to make more confident decisions about their future, and get better qualified applicants. It’s a win-win. More effectively convert prospective students that are exploring your website into applicants by providing access to current students, staff, and faculty. Your prospective students explore your institution’s website. We add detailed ambassador profiles to your site, which include information on their academic background, country, interests, and hobbies. Your prospective students sign up. We ask them for their contact details, the courses they’re interested in, and the country they come from. You can customize and add to these fields too, so you can better understand your prospect pool.Starting Price: Free -
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Brainly
Brainly
Snap questions with the app, and get help from the community. Find expert explanations for textbooks, and view instant step-by-step math solutions. The Brainly community is constantly buzzing with the excitement of endless collaboration, proving that learning is more fun, and more effective, when we put our heads together. Help the community by sharing what you know. Answering questions also helps you learn, so, you can improve your grades with Brainly. Use verified answers, tutor chat support, and textbook solutions to make the A's start rolling in. Brainly is the perfect homework helper for any student because it has all the features to make studying fast, easy & fun for you. If you have questions related to school, there are over 350 million students & experts ready to answer. Find correct expert-verified solutions instantly. For every task, there is a step-by-step explanation, so you can understand the concepts better, boost your knowledge, & improve your grades.Starting Price: Free -
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Genesiv
Genesiv
For the businesses who wish to better connect, engage and grow their community. A fully customizable community-building platform that brings the best engagement tools to your fingertips. From custom domains to custom theme colors, Genesiv fully equips you to build your dream community exactly the way you envision it. Genesiv comes with a wide range of different channels to facilitate different types of conversations with your community. From direct message channels to open channels and even to voice and video channels, you will be well-equipped to build a thriving and buzzing community. From disciplining users who misbehave to getting in-depth server statistics on the growth and engagement of your community, Genesiv equips you with all the professional tools you need to really build and grow your community. Whether it is for your inner-circle VIPs or a special channel where you provide product support, Genesiv empowers you to create flexible payment plans your users can subscribe to.Starting Price: $89.90 per month -
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A-mates
A-mates
Turn your app users into community. Get a forum-like community section inside your app within an hour, save years of development and increase lifetime value, user engagement, and retention. Sign up, log into the console & add your iOS/Android app. We HATE long and frustrating SDK setups. Ours is just a few lines of code. Add it in a popular spot: tab bar, menu, product cards, close to the stuff your users will discuss. Enjoy best design practices & customize UI easily. Share some content right from the console: news, surveys, announcements, FAQs... whatever you think your audience will appreciate. Remember to encourage the users to comment and create their own content. Track the health of your community with a thorough set of community metrics, adjust your content strategy and push-notifications activity.Starting Price: 299$/month -
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Threado
Threado
Threado is a community automation platform to help you spot opportunities, streamline workflows and drive growth. Works with Slack, Discord, Discourse, and GitHub. Hundreds of global community leaders use Threado to discover untapped opportunities, nurture champions, drive engagement, and scale sustainable communities. Craft powerful workflows so you can kick back and relax while Threado takes care of onboarding, activation, feedback and so much more. Discover champions and rising stars. Understand community pulse with topics and sentiment insights. Identify organizations engaging in your community. No more endless scrolling, our AI-powered support system lets you know which conversations need your attention. Find, filter, and respond to them from within Threado. Our powerful community CRM lets you view, segment, tag members in bulk, and engage with them across platforms, including email. Works seamlessly with the tools you use.Starting Price: $41 per month -
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Ezumee
Ezumee
Ezumee is a versatile social media and community-building platform designed to facilitate both online and in-person interactions. It offers a wide range of features, including the ability to create and join various groups, manage events, and host activities. The platform supports diverse interests and communities, from social and recreational groups to business and educational settings. Users can enjoy tools like video conferencing, interactive presentations, and a marketplace for buying and selling. Ezumee also emphasizes privacy and user control, ensuring a secure environment without data mining. Ezumee also hosts community and activity groups run by passionate organizers. There's something for everyone. Most groups are free, though some may charge a small subscription fee for membership. We have a white-label/privately-branded option to allow you to manage your organization and sub-entities on your own version of the platform.Starting Price: $1.75 per month -
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Kommunity
Kommunity
Start building your community on Kommunity, we provide smart solutions for you & your community. Get unlimited RSVP's to your event every time and It's free. Event members can interact with each other before and after your events. They can ask questions, and share pictures or videos anytime. Try something new, or do more of what you love. Create your community & reach your people. All-in-one platform to easily manage your community and organize virtual, hybrid, or in-person events. You can send notifications to event members anytime. No one will miss important details about your events again. You can sell tickets for all your events. Online or offline, it doesn't matter. Don’t worry if you have limited seats. You can use our waitlist option. If you want to be selective, you can create Q&A forms and manage your attendees accordingly. Our main goal is to provide you with features that will save you time and constantly improve for you to make your organization processes easier.Starting Price: $3.90 per month -
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Flarum
Flarum
The community framework for small to enterprise communities that is extensible, scalable, and completely free. Regardless of the size of your community, Flarum excels on every level. Building on top of the Flarum core experience with extensions allows you to customize your community to your needs. Permission groups allow easy configuration of permissions and members. Granting access to categories, but also defining global and category-limited actions like moderation, flagging, and much more. Whether you prefer a simple, bbcode/Markdown editor for typing or need a full-fledged WYSIWYG editor for your users, Flarum works with either of those. Increase engagement with your users using notifications in-browser, through email, or various other channels. Installing a WebSocket extension allows snappy interactivity to your community with real-time updates. Flarum is open source so anyone can install it anywhere, even on a shared hosting plan.Starting Price: Free -
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Kunena
The Kunena Project
Kunena is a free, fully integrated forum extension for Joomla that requires no bridges or hacks. Kunena offers easy customization through template overrides and the Hierarchical Model-View-Controller (HMVC) design pattern, allowing developers to tailor the forum's appearance and functionality to their needs. Optimized for performance, Kunena delivers faster loading times, especially when running on PHP 7, resulting in a 200-300% speed increase. It is designed with minimal requirements, is compatible with most web hosting providers, and supports various web servers, including Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed, and IIS. Kunena continues to evolve, with a dedicated team of volunteers committed to providing a reliable, scalable, and robust forum solution for the Joomla community. Starting Price: Free -
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River
River
River is an in-person event and social platform designed to transform online audiences into real-life communities. It enables brands, creators, and community leaders to effortlessly organize and scale in-person events worldwide. Quickly launch multiple events using customizable templates and batch creation tools, allowing for branded events across various cities. Empower your audience to apply as event hosts through a streamlined applicant tracking system. Approved hosts receive limited edit access and are guided through the event setup process. Provide hosts with automated support, including show notes, duty reminders, venue suggestions, and marketing materials to ensure successful events. Facilitate sponsorships by allowing partners to support individual events or entire series. Sponsors are integrated into event listings and communications, with funds available to reimburse hosts. Monitor events, hosts, and attendee engagement.Starting Price: $50 per month -
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Movement
Movement
Movement is a no-code, multi-purpose app builder that lets coaches, creators, brands, and organizations design and launch fully branded progressive web apps and native apps in minutes. With a drag‑and‑drop builder and hundreds of polished templates, you can seamlessly add video, audio, imagery, forms, quizzes, workout libraries, courses, and digital products, then monetize with one-off purchases, subscriptions, coupons, free trials, and automated Stripe Tax handling. Community engagement tools include interactive feeds, forums, direct and group messaging, events, and live chat, while a built‑in form builder captures check‑ins, assessments, registrations, and image uploads. It supports unlimited media and content uploads, drip content scheduling, flexible access controls, Zapier automation, app white-labeling, multi-app support under one account, and comprehensive customer support, all without writing code.Starting Price: $39 per month -
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Heartbeat
Heartbeat Chat
Heartbeat is the operating system for community‑led businesses, enabling you to host chats, threads, voice and video rooms, live events, courses, and knowledge‑base style documents, all embedded on your own domain or in invite‑only spaces. Customize channels for deep discussions, launch voice rooms with one click, and see presence indicators to replicate that “in‑room” feel. Turn impactful conversations into permanent docs or articles, and organize learning journeys through built‑in courses. Seamlessly monetize your community with memberships, paid events, offers, and course access, and accept payments via integrated tools. Automate onboarding, matchmaking, workflows, and reminders with powerful workflows and integrations (Zoom, Google Calendar, Salesforce, HubSpot, Airtable, and more). Manage member access through granular permissions and access groups, brand your space, and scale with analytics and community dashboards.Starting Price: $40 per month -
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Flare
Flare
Flare is an all‑in‑one group communication and management app that combines chat, events, privacy controls, and member administration in a single interface. It offers both back‑and‑forth messaging and announcement‑style “walls,” so groups can choose an iMessage‑like layout for small‑group chats or a Facebook‑style feed for broader updates. Event tools include a built‑in calendar with weekly and monthly views, guest‑list management, attendance, and uncompressed photo and video galleries; hosts can issue secure, rotating QR‑code tickets for check‑in and integrate attendance with a built‑in points system. Group leaders can maintain comprehensive contact lists, track birthdays, manage alumni networks, and award points for engagement. Best‑in‑class privacy and moderation features let admins disable screenshots and recordings, suspend or remove members, delete messages, or clear entire chats without deleting the chat thread.Starting Price: Free -
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NbliK
NbliK
NbliK is an AI-powered community platform that enables brands, creators, and organizations to launch and manage branded, white-labeled communities with no code. It supports typical community features, events, messaging, member profiles, groups, and subcommunities, and includes deeper engagement tools such as surveys (including branching/skip logic and multilingual support), content discovery, and analytics dashboards. The platform integrates social network connections and email tools, allowing seamless sharing and contact syncs, and it is praised for enabling communities to be launched quickly (some users report setup in ~15 minutes) and with customization flexibility. NbliK emphasizes improving user retention, engagement, and lifetime value by replacing fragmented community tools or external apps with one centralized solution. It is also available as a mobile app in addition to the web, and supports monetization features for creators and brands.Starting Price: $199 per month -
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OneFam
OneFam
Discover OneFam’s series of family journals. A fun and interactive way to capture and preserve your family story. Beautifully designed illustrations to make this a beautiful lasting present. Guided prompts and questions help you tell your story. Get started with your online family tree in minutes. Simply sign up, add your parents, siblings, children, grandparents and other family members. Preserve Images, Videos, Audio, Stories & Events. Invite & Connect with Family Members. Create and Share Family History. Available on Web, Mobile and Ipad. Discover your family story through OneFam’s Ancestry DNA testing. Identify the places your family members have originated from and much more. Learn about your ethnic origins. Trace your family’s origins accross continents. Discover your family’s migration routes. 800,000 genetic markers tested. With a team of over 30 professional genealogists,OneFam enables you to dive deep into your family history on a voyage of discovery across generations.Starting Price: $69 per year -
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Vocaleyes
Vocaleyes
There is a growing trend towards localism, civic participation and being active in community-based decisions. In fact, studies show that a community’s sense of belonging is directly connected to its ability to understand and shape its own vision. On the Vocaleyes platform, you can create open dialogue, trust, and tangible action. Cultivate a culture of meaningful participation for continuous improvement. Collaborate better and increase perspectives to boost motivation and morale. Allow people to champion their ideas, fostering an inclusive culture. Create and identify leadership potential. Make better decisions by engaging in a broader, more diverse audience. Transparency of budgets and spending drives accountability which builds trust. Increase leadership legitimacy through transparency, inclusion and political efficacy.Starting Price: $99.00/month -
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laget.se
laget.se
We have developed a service that helps everyone in and around the club, regardless of role. Choose laget.se so that everyone gets what they really need! Who can come to the cup and when does the weekend's match actually start? Two questions that with laget.se are not a problem. laget.se is the only association system you need. Collecting membership fees has never been easier. A state-of-the-art website completely adapted for sports. Regardless of your sporting level, the i laget.se website makes you make a professional impression.Starting Price: $60.00/year -
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UNA.io
BoonEx
Take the lead - build your own community. UNA is a full-stack software platform for building custom community websites, social networks and collaboration hubs. Create a free account to try UNA in action; launch your community on UNA Cloud; access downloads for self-hosted sites and connect with fellow webmasters. From idea to thriving community - we help to design, implement, launch and maintain your unique multi-user website. Book a demo call to discuss how we can help with your project. All the tools and features you’ll ever need to realize even the most extraordinary social website idea. Use your logo, images, styles, texts and domain name. You fully control and own the site data - no strings attached. Grow big with multiple cache engines, custom storage engine, media transcoders and external storage support. Change navigation, pages, permissions, texts, forms, design and layout via UNA Studio. No coding required.Starting Price: $50 per month -
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Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
Salesforce
The world needs nonprofits more than ever. Organizations like yours are harnessing the power of technology to build a better future. Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud is the only complete platform for nonprofits. It's the only platform that gives you a 360-degree view of your mission. It's the only platform built with a community of over 30,000 trailblazers. It's the only platform that brings you the power and flexibility of Salesforce, the world's #1 CRM. Nonprofit Cloud can power your entire mission: track and measure impact in real time, raise more with AI-driven insights on donors, and take every constituent on their own personal journey. Because you deserve the best technology to change our world. Participate in customer councils, get help from the Trailblazer community, or connect with a certified partner to get started on your digital transformation journey.Starting Price: $36 per month -
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Jambo
Mwanzo Technologies
Jambo is a community management platform that allows communities to communicate and engage better. Jambo has a host of features that simplify communicating, publishing events, conducting polls, managing memberships and more with use of one integrated application. We have features for your every need and more- communicating with members, sharing events and RSVPs, networking, managing memberships, publishing jobs and more; all from one integrated platform. Making sure that all notices are read and acknowledged, sharing events, managing payments and more. One application for all your needs. Jambo has just the right features to make your community management a breeze. We have features to take care of almost all your manual tasks so that you can focus on providing your community a better experience and leave the mundane tasks to us. Discuss, share, notify, upload images, take feedback. Whatever you want to express you can do from Jambo. -
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Scoold
Erudika
The most efficient way to share knowledge within your team or organization. Scoold is open source and works great as a Q&A, forum, knowledge base or customer support platform. Deployable on-premises or to any cloud. Scoold is inspired by Stack Overflow and implements most of its features. You can ask and answer questions, upvote and downvote posts, and earn badges and a reputation. Each edit creates a new revision, making it easy to follow the history of edits. Each post is indexed and analyzed by Para and Elasticsearch — a powerful search engine. You can search for users, questions, and answers from the search bar on top. Questions can be associated with a specific location and then filtered based on that location. This feature enables geolocation queries an gives you the option to search for questions around you. Scoold has a simple but effective reputation system with badges. -
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Favinks
Favinks
Collect your favorite links and not only. Discover, share and follow the most interesting links in the community. Millions of links that you can share and discuss, always fresh and updated content thanks to the Top Links and the discovery of the community influencers. Collect, organize and tag your favorite links with simplicity. Stay up to date with everything that is being talked about in the community of the pages you follow. New content every day from all over the world with whom to share and obtain. Offer and receive knowledge to the community with your favorite links. -
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FluxBB
FluxBB
FluxBB is fast, light, user-friendly forum software for your website. FluxBB is designed as a lighter, faster alternative to some of the traditional feature heavy forum applications. It is easy to use and has a proven track record of stability and security making it an ideal choice of forum for your website. FluxBB is a fork of PunBB, which was created by Rickard Andersson. In 2007, PunBB was sold to a commercial company. Development continued under the direction of Rickard until April 2008. At that time, Rickard announced he would be ceasing his active involvement with the project. In light of the changed circumstances the remaining members of the development team decided they needed to exert more control over the direction of the project which meant the only option was to fork the project; that is when FluxBB was born.
