The Forumly App

Your community. In your users' pockets.

50-80% of your members are already accessing your forum via their phone. It's essential to meet them where they are. While the progressive web app suffices, the benefits of a native mobile iOS & Android app (listed on the Apple App and Google Play stores) are significant: 6-12× more sessions, 2.5× longer individual sessions leading to more than 10× total engaged time compared to mobile web.

Our apps are customized to your brand and optimized for engagement. No webview wrappers. No aggregators. Yours.

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Reef2Reef native app running on iPhone and Android

What's included

Every feature your forum needs to go native.

CanesInSight custom branded welcome screen

XenForo push notifications on iOS lock screen

Infinite scrolling feed in XenForo native mobile app

Direct messages in XenForo native mobile app

Native BBCode rendering in XenForo mobile app

Social media embeds in XenForo native mobile app

Easy forum posting in XenForo native mobile app

Rich text editor in XenForo native mobile app

YouTube playlist embed in XenForo native mobile app

Native ad monetization in XenForo mobile app

Custom bespoke XenForo mobile app development

New Feature

Live Mode

Some threads move fast with posts coming in a mile a minute: game day threads, breaking news, live events. Live Mode is a feature we implemented to stream new posts into the thread as they're made, with no manual refreshing. Your users stay in the conversation without losing their place or having to refresh.

Perfect for sports communities, event threads or any moment your community wants to experience together, in real time.

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Add-on support

Your add-ons. Fully supported.

Forumly ships with support for XenForo's core feature set and many of the most widely-used extensions in the ecosystem. Running a niche or custom plugin? We'll work directly with you to build it into your app.

Your Plugin

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Custom Integration

Have a plugin that powers a core part of your community? We scope and build it natively into your app with no workarounds.

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Don't see your plugin? We work with forum operators to scope and integrate community-specific add-ons. Bring us your plugin list and we'll tell you exactly what's supported and what we can build. Talk to us →

The difference

Your brand. Fully native. Built for XenForo.

Forumly

✓ Your app, your name in the App Store

✓ Fully native, not a webview wrapper

✓ Data stays on your servers

✓ Built exclusively for XenForo

✓ Revenue-share model, we win together

✓ Live Mode, push, custom branding included

Tapatalk

✗ Your community inside their aggregator app

✗ Webview-based, not truly native

✗ Their platform, their data relationship

✗ Multi-platform, diluted experience

✗ Subscription regardless of performance

✗ No Live Mode or bespoke features

Webview Wrappers

✗ Just your website in a frame, not an app

✗ No native performance or push behavior

✗ Mobile web problems, repackaged

✗ No custom native UI or interactions

✗ No monetization uplift

✗ High maintenance, low engagement

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Nate turned our idea into a functioning app very quickly, and was responsive to changes until everything was perfect. Our users love the app, especially the younger ones.

DMoney Owner, CanesInsight.com — largest Miami Hurricanes community online

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