Comparison of social networking software

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.

Social networking software comparison

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
mooSocial 1-1-2023 Proprietary Per License Yes 3.1.8 - PHP, MySQL Facebook - - 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

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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 0.28[4] Edit this on Wikidata ? 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[5] Free Yes 17.9.0[6] 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[7] 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)[8] 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[9] 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

References

  1. ^ "About Drupal". Drupal Open Source CMS. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  2. ^ "Elgg License". Elgg Open Source Social Networking Engine. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Jamroom Marketplace System". youtube. 3 October 2013. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Release 0.28". 24 September 2024. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  5. ^ pH7CMS General Public License 3
  6. ^ pH7CMS v17.9 Release
  7. ^ "Tiki Wiki License (GNU Lesser General Public License v. 2.1)". Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  8. ^ "Kaltura Collaborative Video Plugin". The Elgg Community. Archived from the original on 8 September 2011. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  9. ^ "Why XOOPS?". XOOPS Web Application System. Retrieved 30 October 2011.