The forum that answers itself.
Convoro puts AI at the core of community. Members ask a question and get an instant answer drawn from your community's own threads — with citations. Every discussion makes the forum smarter. Batteries-included, beautiful, and runnable on cheap shared hosting.
Your community’s knowledge, instantly answerable
Every forum slowly buries its best answers. Convoro surfaces them. Ask a question in plain language and get a synthesized answer with citations to the real threads — powered by semantic search over your community’s content.
- → Useful on day one. Even a brand-new community can answer questions, so it never feels empty.
- → Gets smarter with every post. The more members discuss, the better the answers — your content becomes a compounding moat.
- → Always cited. Answers link back to the threads they came from, so members can dig deeper and trust the source.
Bring your own model — any Anthropic or OpenAI-compatible LLM, plus Voyage AI for semantic search.
Everything a community needs — in the box
The proven features of leading forum software, reimagined into one cohesive, modern platform.
Live theme editor
Recolor and reskin your whole community from the admin, with a real-time preview. No CSS required.
True WYSIWYG
Rich text via TipTap with drag-and-drop images auto-converted to WebP. Never see Markdown.
Live threads
Realtime posts, presence, and typing indicators — with a graceful polling fallback.
Built-in marketplace
Browse, install, and configure extensions and themes from the admin. No terminal needed.
PWA & push
Installs to the home screen with push notifications. One image becomes every icon size.
Profiles & DMs
Full profiles with cover images and a wall, plus private messaging — no add-on required.
Accessibility first
ADA-minded throughout — keyboard nav, skip links, focus states, and a compliance dashboard.
Tokens & permissions
Core API access tokens, user groups, and a granular permission system built in.
Notifications & digests
In-app, push, and scheduled email digests keep members coming back.
A modern, open-source foundation
No bespoke black box — Convoro stands on the same battle-tested tools millions of developers already know and trust.
Plus Laravel Reverb for websockets, Valkey / Redis for cache & queues, and MySQL · MariaDB · PostgreSQL for storage.
Runs anywhere — even $3 shared hosting
No SSH? No problem. Upload, unzip, and finish setup in your browser. Scale up to a VPS with Redis and realtime when you grow.
One-click installer
A guided wizard writes config, migrates, and creates your admin — no command line.
MySQL · MariaDB · Postgres
Bring whatever database your host gives you. No Redis required.
Scales to a VPS
Add Redis, Reverb websockets, and Horizon queues when you’re ready.
Your own hosting control panel
ConvoroCP is our self-hosted control panel — a modern alternative to cPanel and Plesk, built in the Convoro look. Provision sites, databases, PHP versions, SSL, email, cron jobs, daemons, Docker containers and backups from one clean dashboard. It even runs Convoro itself.
- ✓One-click sites, free SSL, and per-site PHP settings
- ✓Cron jobs, background daemons, and Docker — managed for you
- ✓Webmail, databases, backups, and a built-in terminal
Built for the AI era — and proud of it
Convoro doesn't just tolerate AI — it embraces it. Build themes and extensions with your favorite AI assistant. We publish a machine-readable build spec, so models like Claude can scaffold a correct, installable Convoro extension or theme on the first try.
$ curl convoro.co/llms.txt
# Everything an AI needs to build a
# Convoro theme or extension —
# manifest, slots, tokens, publish flow.
→ paste it to your model. Ship.
The whole platform is free. Forever.
Convoro is free to download and self-host — no seats, no feature gates, no trials. The only paid part is the optional marketplace, where you can buy premium add-ons built by the community.
Coming from another forum?
See how Convoro stacks up against Flarum, Discourse, XenForo, phpBB and Invision Community — feature by feature.
Extensions & themes
Extend further with first-party and community add-ons — 41 and counting.
Aurora
themeA cosmic dark theme — animated aurora-borealis backdrop, glassmorphic surfaces, soft cyan/pink glow and a 6-palette switcher (Aurora, Sunset, Ocean, Forest, Nebula, Ember). Restyle...
Respawn
themeA gaming / esports theme — deep navy-black, neon cyan + magenta, sharp angular corners, JetBrains Mono UI type, subtle CRT scanlines and neon glow. Restyles the whole forum via Con...
About / Custom HTML
extensionSidebar widget rendering custom HTML — set the heading and content in the live theme editor.
Accepted Answers
extensionTurn categories into Q&A. The person who asked (or staff) can mark a reply as the accepted answer — it gets a green check and the thread shows as solved. Perfect for help and suppo...
Analytics
extensionAdmin analytics dashboard — members, content, engagement, signups over time, top posters and most active topics.
Announcement Bar
extensionShows a dismissible announcement on discussion pages. First-party sample demonstrating the Convoro extension system (provider + migration + permission + frontend slot).
Armory
extensionConnect Battle.net and show off your World of Warcraft characters — class-colored character cards on member profiles, a main-character badge by your posts, and Battle.net sign-in....
Bookmarks
extensionSave posts to a personal reading list. Members bookmark any post with one click and revisit them on a private Bookmarks page. Opt-in — install it only if your community wants it.
Calls — Audio & Video
extensionOne-to-one and group audio/video calls between members, powered by LiveKit. Adds a Call button to direct messages and member profiles. Calls are only offered when the other person...
Categories
extensionSidebar widget linking to each forum category with topic counts.
Community Stats
extensionSidebar widget showing member, topic, post and reaction counts.
ConvoroCP
panelSelf-hosted hosting control panel
Discord
extensionConnect your community to Discord. Members sign in with Discord, their roles sync both ways (Discord roles ⇄ Convoro groups), and new topics announce to Discord channels through pe...
Downloads
extensionA downloads directory for Convoro — organise files into categories, link a GitHub release or upload a .zip/.exe, with per-download counts. Free first-party extension.
Emoji Picker
extensionAdds an emoji picker to the composer toolbar so members can quickly insert emoji into posts, replies and direct messages. Categories, search and a recents row, themed to match the...
Events
extensionCommunity events done right: a month calendar and list, rich event pages with attendee lists, going / maybe / can’t-go RSVPs with optional capacity, add-to-calendar (iCal + Google)...
Facebook Auto Post
extensionAutomatically share every new topic to your Facebook Page. When a member publishes a topic, Convoro posts a link to your Page via the Graph API — with a customizable message, optio...
Follow & Feed
extensionFollow members and get a personal feed of their latest topics and replies. Adds a Follow button to profiles and a Feed page. Opt-in.
Footer Builder
extensionA fully configurable, theme-matched site footer: brand column with logo and social buttons, up to four link columns, a copyright bar and an optional back-to-top button. Live previe...
Gallery
extensionA polished photo gallery for Convoro — organise images into albums and categories, with a fullscreen lightbox, drag-and-drop uploads, album covers and likes. Free first-party exten...
GDPR & Privacy
extensionPrivacy compliance for communities worldwide (GDPR + CCPA): a granular cookie-consent banner that honors Global Privacy Control / Do-Not-Track, a re-openable “Privacy choices / Do...
Giveaways
extensionRun provably-fair giveaways in your community. Members enter with one click; a commit–reveal seed makes every draw verifiable, and giveaways with an end time draw their winner auto...
GridIron Nation
extensionBring the GridIron Nation college-football look to your community. Applies a crimson skin site-wide and adds two sidebar widgets: a Live Scores ticker that auto-scrolls the day's N...
Horizon — Queue Dashboard
extensionLaravel Horizon dashboard for monitoring your queue (jobs, throughput, failures, retries). For VPS deployments running Redis + a Horizon worker. Adds an admin-only /horizon dashboa...
Leaderboard
extensionA top-contributors leaderboard. Ranks members by reputation — posts, topics started, and reactions received — on a themed /leaderboard page with a podium for the top three, contend...
MCP Server — Connect your AI
extensionTurns your Convoro community into an MCP server so you can connect an AI assistant (Claude or any MCP client) directly to your forum. Generate a personal access token, point your A...
Member Badges
extensionReward members with earnable badges — first post, milestones, reactions received, founding member and more. Auto-awarded as members participate, shown on their profile.
Newest Members
extensionSidebar widget showing avatars of the most recently joined members.
OnAir
extensionPer-user live streaming for your community. Any member can go live with a YouTube or Twitch broadcast — a pulsing LIVE badge appears on their avatar everywhere, a sidebar card list...
OnAir+
extensionTurn OnAir into a full broadcast studio. OnAir+ adds a built-in per-user RTMP ingest (self-hosted or managed) so members go live straight from OBS — no YouTube/Twitch account neede...
Online Now
extensionA sidebar widget showing who's online right now, with avatars.
Page Builder
extensionA premium drag-and-drop page builder + content CMS for Convoro. Design beautiful custom pages with a live, in-context visual editor and a rich block library (hero, gallery, columns...
Picks
extensionCollege-football pick'em for Convoro. Sync the FBS schedule from collegefootballdata.com, pick the winner of every game each week, and climb a live leaderboard with weekly, season...
Projects
extensionA showcase where members publish their projects — title, link, image and description — shown as cards on a /projects page, with a latest-projects sidebar widget and admin moderatio...
Recruiting
extensionCollege-football recruiting tracker for Convoro. Pulls live FBS recruiting rankings from collegefootballdata.com and renders them on a themed page at /recruiting — searchable, filt...
Role-Play
extensionTurn Convoro into a role-play forum: members create characters and post as them. Multi-character accounts, role-play topics, character sheets & dice, a character directory with cla...
RSS Feeds
extensionPublish your community as RSS — a site-wide feed plus per-category and per-topic feeds, with auto-discovery so feed readers find them automatically.
Social Login
extensionLet members sign in with GitHub, Google, Facebook, or X. Dependency-free OAuth2 — no Composer packages required. Configure each provider's keys from the admin settings page and the...
TMDB
extensionTurn a topic into a rich movie or TV page. Title a topic with a film or show name and Convoro pulls the poster, overview, cast, where-to-watch and a trailer from The Movie Database...
Top Posters
extensionSidebar widget listing the most active members by post count.
Trending Topics
extensionA sidebar widget showing the hottest topics by recent replies.
Aurora
themeA cosmic dark theme — animated aurora-borealis backdrop, glassmorphic surfaces, soft cyan/pink glow and a 6-palette switcher (Aurora, Sunset, Ocean, Forest, Nebula, Ember). Restyle...
Respawn
themeA gaming / esports theme — deep navy-black, neon cyan + magenta, sharp angular corners, JetBrains Mono UI type, subtle CRT scanlines and neon glow. Restyles the whole forum via Con...
About / Custom HTML
extensionSidebar widget rendering custom HTML — set the heading and content in the live theme editor.
Accepted Answers
extensionTurn categories into Q&A. The person who asked (or staff) can mark a reply as the accepted answer — it gets a green check and the thread shows as solved. Perfect for help and suppo...
Analytics
extensionAdmin analytics dashboard — members, content, engagement, signups over time, top posters and most active topics.
Announcement Bar
extensionShows a dismissible announcement on discussion pages. First-party sample demonstrating the Convoro extension system (provider + migration + permission + frontend slot).
Armory
extensionConnect Battle.net and show off your World of Warcraft characters — class-colored character cards on member profiles, a main-character badge by your posts, and Battle.net sign-in....
Bookmarks
extensionSave posts to a personal reading list. Members bookmark any post with one click and revisit them on a private Bookmarks page. Opt-in — install it only if your community wants it.
Calls — Audio & Video
extensionOne-to-one and group audio/video calls between members, powered by LiveKit. Adds a Call button to direct messages and member profiles. Calls are only offered when the other person...
Categories
extensionSidebar widget linking to each forum category with topic counts.
Community Stats
extensionSidebar widget showing member, topic, post and reaction counts.
ConvoroCP
panelSelf-hosted hosting control panel
Discord
extensionConnect your community to Discord. Members sign in with Discord, their roles sync both ways (Discord roles ⇄ Convoro groups), and new topics announce to Discord channels through pe...
Downloads
extensionA downloads directory for Convoro — organise files into categories, link a GitHub release or upload a .zip/.exe, with per-download counts. Free first-party extension.
Emoji Picker
extensionAdds an emoji picker to the composer toolbar so members can quickly insert emoji into posts, replies and direct messages. Categories, search and a recents row, themed to match the...
Events
extensionCommunity events done right: a month calendar and list, rich event pages with attendee lists, going / maybe / can’t-go RSVPs with optional capacity, add-to-calendar (iCal + Google)...
Facebook Auto Post
extensionAutomatically share every new topic to your Facebook Page. When a member publishes a topic, Convoro posts a link to your Page via the Graph API — with a customizable message, optio...
Follow & Feed
extensionFollow members and get a personal feed of their latest topics and replies. Adds a Follow button to profiles and a Feed page. Opt-in.
Footer Builder
extensionA fully configurable, theme-matched site footer: brand column with logo and social buttons, up to four link columns, a copyright bar and an optional back-to-top button. Live previe...
Gallery
extensionA polished photo gallery for Convoro — organise images into albums and categories, with a fullscreen lightbox, drag-and-drop uploads, album covers and likes. Free first-party exten...
GDPR & Privacy
extensionPrivacy compliance for communities worldwide (GDPR + CCPA): a granular cookie-consent banner that honors Global Privacy Control / Do-Not-Track, a re-openable “Privacy choices / Do...
Giveaways
extensionRun provably-fair giveaways in your community. Members enter with one click; a commit–reveal seed makes every draw verifiable, and giveaways with an end time draw their winner auto...
GridIron Nation
extensionBring the GridIron Nation college-football look to your community. Applies a crimson skin site-wide and adds two sidebar widgets: a Live Scores ticker that auto-scrolls the day's N...
Horizon — Queue Dashboard
extensionLaravel Horizon dashboard for monitoring your queue (jobs, throughput, failures, retries). For VPS deployments running Redis + a Horizon worker. Adds an admin-only /horizon dashboa...
Leaderboard
extensionA top-contributors leaderboard. Ranks members by reputation — posts, topics started, and reactions received — on a themed /leaderboard page with a podium for the top three, contend...
MCP Server — Connect your AI
extensionTurns your Convoro community into an MCP server so you can connect an AI assistant (Claude or any MCP client) directly to your forum. Generate a personal access token, point your A...
Member Badges
extensionReward members with earnable badges — first post, milestones, reactions received, founding member and more. Auto-awarded as members participate, shown on their profile.
Newest Members
extensionSidebar widget showing avatars of the most recently joined members.
OnAir
extensionPer-user live streaming for your community. Any member can go live with a YouTube or Twitch broadcast — a pulsing LIVE badge appears on their avatar everywhere, a sidebar card list...
OnAir+
extensionTurn OnAir into a full broadcast studio. OnAir+ adds a built-in per-user RTMP ingest (self-hosted or managed) so members go live straight from OBS — no YouTube/Twitch account neede...
Online Now
extensionA sidebar widget showing who's online right now, with avatars.
Page Builder
extensionA premium drag-and-drop page builder + content CMS for Convoro. Design beautiful custom pages with a live, in-context visual editor and a rich block library (hero, gallery, columns...
Picks
extensionCollege-football pick'em for Convoro. Sync the FBS schedule from collegefootballdata.com, pick the winner of every game each week, and climb a live leaderboard with weekly, season...
Projects
extensionA showcase where members publish their projects — title, link, image and description — shown as cards on a /projects page, with a latest-projects sidebar widget and admin moderatio...
Recruiting
extensionCollege-football recruiting tracker for Convoro. Pulls live FBS recruiting rankings from collegefootballdata.com and renders them on a themed page at /recruiting — searchable, filt...
Role-Play
extensionTurn Convoro into a role-play forum: members create characters and post as them. Multi-character accounts, role-play topics, character sheets & dice, a character directory with cla...
RSS Feeds
extensionPublish your community as RSS — a site-wide feed plus per-category and per-topic feeds, with auto-discovery so feed readers find them automatically.
Social Login
extensionLet members sign in with GitHub, Google, Facebook, or X. Dependency-free OAuth2 — no Composer packages required. Configure each provider's keys from the admin settings page and the...
TMDB
extensionTurn a topic into a rich movie or TV page. Title a topic with a film or show name and Convoro pulls the poster, overview, cast, where-to-watch and a trailer from The Movie Database...
Top Posters
extensionSidebar widget listing the most active members by post count.
Trending Topics
extensionA sidebar widget showing the hottest topics by recent replies.
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