# 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 | Messaging | Event Calendar | Social Grouping | Tagging | Connectivity | Poll Generation/Tally | Contact Management | Supports the Semantic Web | Supports DataPortability | Customizable | Comment | Name |
| 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 | 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 | Free | Yes | 3.3.11 | Out of the box | PHP, MySQL / PostgreSQL / Oracle / Microsoft SQL Server | Module | 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 | 0.29.1 | ? | 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 | Free | Yes | 17.9.0 | 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 | 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) | 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 | 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 |