ABDA
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ABDA
A Better Discourse App

Every Discourse forum.
One app.

Asana, Mozilla, Godot, Home Assistant and 2,400+ more communities run on Discourse. ABDA is one native phone app for all of them — read, reply, react, chat and get notified, without switching apps.

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ABDA home screen: your forums, a featured forum and categories to browse

Works with 2,400+ public Discourse forums, including

Asana Forum logo Cursor Community logo Fedora Discussion logo Hugging Face Forums logo Mozilla Discourse logo NVIDIA Developer Forums logo OpenAI Developer Community logo Shopify Community logo Home Assistant Community logo Docker Community Forums logo Obsidian Forum logo Godot Forum logo
See it

The whole forum, made for a phone

The same screens you'll find on the App Store and Google Play, from real forums in the app, in light and dark mode.

Every Discourse forum. One app.: ABDA home: your forums, a featured forum and categories Find your community: The directory: 22 categories and 32 languages Posts look like the web: A Blender Artists thread with its full-size render What's new, at a glance: Godot Forum's home in dark mode: latest topics, solved answers marked Every forum in its own colours: Home Assistant Community's categories in its own blue Code, clearly highlighted: An Arduino Forum thread with a wiring diagram and highlighted code Rich posts, built in: An eWeLink thread with a table Whatever you're into: A WorldGuessr thread with map images
What you get

Everything a Discourse forum does. In one place.

ABDA talks to each forum through Discourse's own public API. Nothing to install on the forum, nothing to configure by its admins.

The directory's category picker

Find your community

2,400+ forums in 22 categories and 32 languages. Or open any Discourse forum by its address, or share a link to ABDA from your browser.

The composer with attach, image, camera, formatting and mention buttons

Read and reply

Topics, posts, quotes and Markdown, the way the web composer writes it. Attach photos, or take one with the camera.

A table inside a forum post

Rich posts

Images and galleries, tables, polls, events, highlighted code, video and audio, as they look on the web.

A post's likes, and a topic's views, likes and people at a glance

Likes and reactions

Like and react with the forum's emoji set, and see how a topic is doing at a glance.

The Chat tab with channels and direct messages

Messages and chat

Private and group messages, and the forum's live chat channels and direct messages.

Notification settings with a switch for each kind

Notifications

Replies, mentions, messages and chat, for each forum where you turn them on, with a switch for each kind.

Home Assistant Community in its own blue

The forum's own colours

Each forum keeps its logo, colours and categories, in light and dark mode.

Your posts, drafts, bookmarks and badges

Drafts, bookmarks, badges

Drafts are saved on the forum, so you can finish them on the web. Bookmarks come with reminders.

Your forums on ABDA's home

Switch forums, not apps

The forums you use stay on Home. Each keeps its own account and sign-in.

Open source

Built on an open-source Discourse app you can fork

ABDA is the multi-forum edition of discourse-app, an open-source Flutter app for a single Discourse forum. Everything you see inside a forum in ABDA is that project, unchanged.

Any forum owner can fork it into a branded app for their own community: set the forum address, add a name, icon and colours, and build for iOS and Android. It needs no server plugin — only the forum's stock API.

  • Flutter, MIT-licensed, actively maintained
  • User API Key sign-in — the app never sees passwords
  • Push notifications through a small relay you can host
  • Eleven languages, light and dark themes
View on GitHub
$ git clone https://github.com/forumcopilot/discourse-app.git $ cd discourse-app $ flutter pub get && ./buildlib.sh # edit packages/discourse_ui/lib/config/app_forum_config.dart # forumBaseUrl = 'https://forum.example.com' $ flutter run
Community

Join ABDA Community

Our own Discourse forum. Ask questions, report bugs, vote on what we build next and read release news. To try the app, open discuss.betterdiscourse.app in ABDA and post in the Sandbox: every feature works there.

Visit ABDA Community Open the Sandbox
For forum owners

Want your own branded app for your Discourse forum?

I build and ship custom apps on top of the open-source project: your name, icon and colours, push notifications, private features, and the App Store and Google Play submissions handled for you. One email is enough to start.

Email [email protected]