Social networking software provides the technological basis for community driven content sharing and social networking.
See also Comparison of software and protocols for distributed social networking, especially for open-source software. Comparison of microblogging and similar services may also be relevant.
Name | Last Access | License | Cost | Source code | Version | Installation | Codebase | SSO support | RSS | RSS Reader/Aggregator | Access control | Wiki | Forum | Blog | Media sharing | Credits and payments | p2p Video-confrencing | Messaging | Event Calendar | Group Rides | Social Grouping | Tagging | Connectivity | Poll Generation/Tally | Contact Management | Supports the Semantic Web | Supports DataPortability | Customizable | Comment | Name |
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mooSocial | 1-1-2023 | Proprietary | Per License | Yes | 3.1.8 | - | PHP, MySQL | - | - | Group Levels, Memberships, Access Control, Privacy, Permissions, Photos | No | Yes (via Plugin) | Yes (via Plugin) | Yes | Yes, Paypal Integration in Memberships | - | Yes | - | - | - | Yes | Yes | Yes (via Plugin) | Yes | ? | ? | Yes via plugins, widgets, theme, modules and source code can also be customized. | Yes | mooSocial | |
Qbix | 2022-09-19 | GPL 3.0 | Free | Yes | 1.1 | Out of the box | PHP, MySQL, Node.js | Facebook, MetaMask | ? | ? | Users, groups, extensible w plugins | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Extensible via plugins | Qbix Platform | |
BuddyPress | 2020-01-08 | GPL 2.0 | Free | Yes | 5.1.2 | Out of the box | PHP, MySQL/PostgreSQL | OpenID + OAuth + Facebook + Twitter built in | Yes | Yes | Users, groups (extensible via plugins) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Extensible via plugins with a flexible API; skinnable; available in many languages | Based on WordPress. | BuddyPress | |||
Drupal | 2008-11-02 | GPL 2.0[1] | Free | Yes | 5 | Out of the box | PHP, PDO | OpenID, module | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Module | Yes | Yes | Yes | Module | Plugin | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Extensible via plugins, widgets, tasks, events, REST; skinnable; available in many languages | Community and collaboration platform with many integrated core applications | Drupal | |||
Elgg | 2014-01-01 | GPL 2.0[2] | Free | Yes | 3.3.11 | Out of the box | PHP, MySQL / PostgreSQL / Oracle / Microsoft SQL Server | Module[3] | Yes | Yes | Users levels, Groups, Pages | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Facebook, Google, Content Mirroring, RSS importer, External Widgets | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Extensible via plugins with a flexible API; skinnable; available in many languages | ? | ELGG | |||
Humhub | 2021-01-28 | AGPLv3 or under a proprietary license | Free or 99€ / monthly | Yes | 1.10.3 | Ou of the box | PHP, MySQL, or MariaDB with InnoDB storage engine installed | Yes | No | No | Users, Spaces, Groups | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes
Discord, Google, Facebook, Kopano, OnlyOffice |
Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Provides API | ? | Humhub | |||
ImpressCMS | 2012-04-22 | GPL 2.0 | Free | Yes | 1.5.20 | Out of the box | PHP, MySQL | Facebook Connect | Plugin | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | via plugins | Yes | Plugin | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Content management | ImpressCMS | |||
Jamroom | 2017-02-07 | MPL | Free, $299 Premium, Hosted from $39 | Yes | 6.1.0 | Hosted Out of the box | PHP, MySQL | OpenID + LDAP + Yubikey + Active Directory built in | Yes | Yes | Yes | Module | Yes | Plugin | Yes | Yes | Module | Module | Module | @all by Module | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Module | Small Core, 150+ modules, responsive, SEO optimized, cloud scalable, friendly support and community | Jamroom | |||
Joomla! | 2007-03-05 | GPL 2.0 | Free | Yes | 3.9.5 | Out of the box/hosted | PHP, MySQL | LDAP + Active Directory built in | ? | ? | Users roles | Module | Yes | Yes | Images/Photos, Videos, Maps, etc. | Yes | Module | Module | Module | Module | No | Yes | ? | ? | Open source, Plugins, Themes, Events, Widgets | Customizable Facebook-style newsfeed | Joomla! | |||
Kune | 2012-04-22 | AGPLv3 | Free | Yes | 9.7.2 | Out of the box (deb package) | Java-based GWT, auto-generated AJAX | LDAP, Facebook Connect, Google Account, GitHub, Microsoft Account, others | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Federated, focused on real-time group collaboration and social networking, Apache Wave-based | Kune | |||
Minds | 2018-02-20 | AGPLv3 | Free | Yes | 1 | Out of the box | Angular2, Cassandra, NodeJS, PHP, Elasticsearch, React Native | oAuth 2.0, Google Account, Facebook Connect, Custom | Yes | Yes | Group Levels, Memberships, Access Control, Privacy, Permissions | Yes | Yes | Yes | Images, Video, Docs, Music, Extensions | Messenger, WebRTC Chat, Mailbox, iOS and Android Chats, MAC and WIN Chat Apps | No | Groups, Events, Webinars | Categories, Tags, Inline Hashtags | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Enterprise ready and scalable for millions of users | Minds | |||
Movim | ? | AGPLv3 | Free | Yes | ? | PHP | No | No | ? | Group Levels, Memberships, Access Control, Privacy, Permissions | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes, and audio + video calls based webRTC | No | Yes | Yes | Yes, with all networks supporting XMPP | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Federated, based on XMPP | Movim | ||||
pH7CMS | 2023-01-02 | GPL 3.0[4] | Free | Yes | 17.9.0[5] | Out of the box | PHP 5.6+, JS, MySQL, MariaDB | oAuth 2.0, Google Account, Facebook Connect, Custom | Yes | Yes | Access Control Levels, User levels, Actions, Memberships, Privacy, Permissions, Groups, Pages | No | Yes | Yes | Images, Video, Docs, Music, Extensions | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Interactive Polls, Visual Graphs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 99% OOP code, MVC pattern, module- and template-based approach | pH7CMS | |||
Telligent Community | 2009-06-23 | Proprietary | Per License | Yes | 1.3.2 | Out of the box | PHP, MySQL | Facebook Connect | Yes | ? | Users, Groups | No | Component | Component | ? | Plugin | Plugin | Plugin | Yes | ? | Yes | Module | ? | ? | Module, Plugins, ImpressCMS Persitable Framework (IPF) | ? | Telligent Community | |||
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | 2015-01-06 | LGPL 2.1[6] | Free | Freely available via stable releases and development SVN | 1.6.4 | Out of the box | PHP, MySQL | OpenID + LDAP + Active Directory built in | Blog, Files, Groups, Users, Tags | Yes | User levels, Groups | Yes | Plugin | Yes | Image, video, audio, documents, any filetype, automatic podcast support (Kaltura Elgg Plugin)[7] | Yes | Plugin | Yes | Yes | Webservices | Plugin | Yes | ? | ? | Yes, based on WordPress theme and plugin architecture | ? | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | |||
XOOPS | 2010-06-06 | GPL 2.0 | Free | Yes | 0.2.0 (beta/production) | Out of the box | PHP, MySQL | Facebook Connect | ? | ? | Users (with roles), Groups | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Open source; extensible via gadgets (wave extensions) & via modules; skinnable; available in many languages | Modular approach[8] | XOOPS | |||
Name | Last Access | License | Cost | Source code | Version | Installation | Codebase | SSO support | RSS | RSS Reader/Aggregator | Access control | Wiki | Forum | Blog | Media sharing | Messaging | Event Calendar | Social Grouping | Tagging | Connectivity | Poll Generation/Tally | Contact Management | Supports the Semantic Web | Supports DataPortability | Customizable | Comment | Name |
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