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Community Tools

The community tools we detect on new sites, ranked by how many use each. Part of Business Tools.

Tools tracked
145
in Business Tools
Sites
1,800
using at least one community tool
Leader
14%
XenForo, of these sites
Above 1%
20
tools on more than 1% of them

What we found

  1. XenForo leads, on 14% of the sites using a community tool, with Discourse close behind on 11%.
  2. Only 20 of the 145 community tools we track run on more than 1% of these sites.
  3. Among sites launched in September, elitepvpers rose to #10 from #18 in August.
  4. Discuz! is a regional leader, used almost entirely by sites in China.

The leading community tools

# Movement Tool Country Share Bar Sites 90 days
1 – XenForo Commercial PHP community forum and bulletin board software. 14% 256
2 – Discourse Open-source forum and community platform. 11% 196
3 – Skool Platform for running paid online communities with discussion, courses and events in one place. 7.4% 133
4 ▼1 phpBB Free open-source bulletin board software for running online discussion forums. 6.1% 110
5 ▲4 Discuz! Chinese community forum software. China 6.1% 109
6 ▼1 Flarum Open-source forum and discussion platform. 6.1% 109
7 ▼1 Fandom Wiki hosting platform for fan communities and entertainment content. 3.9% 71
8 ▼2 vBulletin Community forum and bulletin board software for building online discussion communities. 3.9% 71
9 ▲3 Devpost Platform for hosting and discovering hackathons. 3.5% 63
10 ▼5 BoardGameGeek Board game database and community site providing game data, rankings and forums. 3.1% 56
11 – Invision Community Community forum and content management software. 2.7% 48
12 – SMF Open source PHP forum software for running online discussion boards. 2.1% 38
13 ▲8 elitepvpers Online gaming community and forum for MMO private servers and game modding. 2.1% 37
14 – Circle Circle (circle.so): community platform for hosting paid memberships, courses, and discussion spaces. 2.0% 36
15 ▲5 NodeBB Node.js forum and community discussion platform. 1.5% 27

Share is of the 1,800 sites using a community tool; a site can use more than one. A flag means nearly all of a tool's sites are in that country. Arrows compare each tool's rank among sites launched in September with August. The line is its share of new sites over 90 days. Showing the top 15 of 145.

Watches, exports and the API give you every community tool and the sites using each, from £15 a month.

Recently launched products using community tools

Product Launched
metaNESTA 17 Oct 2026
Agent-Native 14 Oct 2026
OneClickClaw 8 Oct 2026
GLiDE 4 Oct 2026
Deepsense 2 Oct 2026
EDA Benchmark Leaderboard 28 Sep 2026

Often built with

Other kinds of tool most often found on the same sites, leaving out the plumbing every site has (DNS, CDN, hosting).