ABDA

A Better Discourse App

One app.
Every Discourse community.

Asana, Mozilla, OpenAI, Godot and hundreds more forums run on Discourse. ABDA is a native phone app for all of them — read, reply, react, bookmark and get notified, without switching apps.

Coming soon on theApp Store Coming soon onGoogle Play

ABDA home screen with featured forums and categories

Explore screen with search, categories and language filter

Find your community

A curated directory of public forums. Search by name, topic or tag; browse ten categories; filter by language. Or open any Discourse forum by its address.

The whole forum, made for a phone

Latest, hot, new and unread. Categories and tags. The forum's own logo and colours, in light and dark mode.

A thread with posts, reactions and reply controls

Take part

Reply with Markdown, react, bookmark, quote, edit. Drafts are saved on the forum, so you can pick up on the web.

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.

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Read and reply

Topics, posts, quotes and Markdown, the way the web composer writes it.

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Reactions and bookmarks

Like, react with the forum's emoji set, bookmark with reminders.

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Notifications

Replies, mentions and messages, as they happen.

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Private messages

Your inbox and group messages, with the same composer.

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Drafts, tags, groups, badges

Server-side drafts, tag browsing, group pages and your badges.

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Switch forums, not apps

The forums you open 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

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]

One app.Every Discourse community.