Wix forum apps compared: Groups vs. forum apps after Wix Forum (2026)
By Kayabyte
Short answer: Wix closed its own Forum app, so a Wix site now has two kinds of choice. Wix Groups is made by Wix and free to add: a social feed for a club, class or members’ group. Forum apps from other developers give you what Groups does not: a topic list, categories, search through replies and a page for each discussion. Pick Groups for a community that chats; pick a forum app for questions and answers that people (and search engines) should find again later.
The apps at a glance
Taken from each app’s App Market listing on 12 November 2026. Wix shows prices in your local currency, so check the listing for the price you will pay and for current ratings.
| App | Made by | What it is | Free plan | Paid plan and trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wix Groups | Wix | Groups with a feed, posts and comments, public or private | Free to add | none |
| Forum | Website Freelancer | Forum with upvotes, reactions, moderation and a spam filter | Yes, with a watermark on the widgets | Premium removes the watermark; 3-day trial |
| ForumFlow | Brivano Labs | Forum or Q&A board, a page for each discussion | Up to 25 posts and 50 replies | Pro: unlimited threads, no “Powered by”; 14-day trial |
| Discussion Forum & Boards | Builds By Luke | Boards, sections, topics and replies; guests post with a name | 4,000 topics a forum, no watermark | Pro and Business: photos, members-only boards, import; 14-day trial |
| Classic Forum | Hara Yoshiyuki Apps | Simple board with categories, English and Japanese | Up to 2 categories and 100 topics | Pro: unlimited, post approval; 14-day trial |
| Community Forum & Q&A (ours) | Kayabyte | Forum and Q&A board, a page for each thread, accepted answers | Up to 100 threads, 3 categories, unlimited members and replies | Pro: unlimited, private categories, product Q&A; 14-day trial |
Groups or a forum app?
- A community that talks (a fitness group, a class, a club): Wix Groups. Members see a feed of new posts and comment, much like a social network. It is made by Wix and needs no other app.
- Questions that keep getting asked (support, product questions, a hobby or trade topic): a forum app. Visitors scan titles, search old answers and land on a single discussion from Google. Site owners moving from Wix Forum often miss exactly this in Groups: a list of topics and search through replies (see our Wix forum replacement guide).
What to check in a forum app
- Does each discussion get its own page, with the first post and the replies in the page? That is what search engines and AI assistants can read. A forum inside one widget often shows them nothing.
- Who can post: site members only, guests with a name and email, or both, set per category or board.
- Moderation: an approval queue, first-post approval for guests, spam protection, locking, moving and merging threads.
- Q&A: can the person who asked mark an accepted answer, and can you list unanswered questions?
- Limits on the free plan: posts, topics, categories, and whether a watermark or “Powered by” link shows.
- Your data: can you export it, and is it kept in your own site (for example in the Wix CMS)?
- Languages and design: does the forum follow your site’s fonts and colours and your site language?
Where Community Forum & Q&A fits
Community Forum & Q&A is our app, so read this part with that in mind. Each thread is an item in your own site’s CMS and gets its own page, which Wix builds on the server and lists in your sitemap, with the first post and all approved replies in the HTML. In Q&A mode the person who asked marks an accepted answer, and Google’s Rich Results Test reads an answered thread as a valid Q&A page. Members and replies are unlimited on every plan; Free has up to 100 threads and 3 categories and a small “Powered by” link. Pro ($6.99 a month, $5.59 billed yearly, 14-day trial) adds unlimited threads and categories, members-only categories, a word filter and member bans, product questions on Wix Stores product pages, and CSV import and export. It is a forum, not a social feed: if your members mostly want to chat, Wix Groups is the better fit.
You can also ask Wix’s AI assistant Aria about your forum (“how many questions are unanswered?”) once the app is installed.
More: add a forum to Wix, forum SEO on Wix, Wix forum replacement.