A Better Discourse App (ABDA)

ABDA is one app for all your Discourse forums. Every screen is made for the phone, not a website squeezed into a frame, and push notifications work on most forums without their admins setting anything up.

Open-source projects, companies, games and hobbies run their communities on Discourse. With ABDA you read, reply, react and chat in all of them, without juggling browser tabs.

FIND YOUR COMMUNITIES

• A directory of 2,400+ public forums in 22 categories and 32 languages, each checked to work in the app

• Search by name or topic, and filter by category and language

• Open any Discourse forum by its web address, or share a link to ABDA from your browser

• The forums you use stay on Home, with their own icons

STAY IN THE LOOP

• Push notifications for replies, mentions, messages and chat, turned on forum by forum

• Works on most forums, with nothing for their admins to set up

• Your notifications, bookmarks, drafts and profile in one place

THE WHOLE FORUM, MADE FOR A PHONE

• Each forum's own logo and colours, categories and tags, in light and dark mode

• Latest, hot, top, new and unread

• Posts look the way they do on the web: images, galleries, tables, code, quotes, polls, events, video, audio and link previews

TAKE PART

• Reply and start topics with the same Markdown the web composer writes

• Attach photos from your gallery, or take one with the camera

• React with the forum's emoji, bookmark with reminders, quote and edit

• Drafts are saved on the forum, so you can finish them on the web

• Private messages, group inboxes and live chat

YOUR ACCOUNT STAYS WITH THE FORUM

• You sign in on the forum's own page; ABDA never sees your password

• Each forum keeps its own account, and most public forums can be read without signing in

• Signing out revokes the app's key on the forum

SAFE AND PRIVATE

• Report posts to the forum's moderators, and ignore users you don't want to see

• No ads, no tracking, no analytics and no ABDA account

• Forum screens in eleven languages

ABDA is an independent app and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc. Discourse is a trademark of Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc. Forum names and logos belong to their communities.