Movim
Movim is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Social & Forums category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in PHP. It ships a Docker image. It has 2,067 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 24, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 2,067
- Forks
- 286
- Open issues
- 37
- Commits, last 12 months
- 685
- Last commit
- Oct 24, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.35.4Oct 24, 2026
- Created
- Jun 24, 2015
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 24, 2026, 685 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 24, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 685 |
| Latest release | v0.35.4 (Oct 24, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 46 |
| Open issues | 37 |
| Open pull requests | 4 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Jun 24, 2015 |
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About Movim
Modern, federated social network based on XMPP, with a fully featured group-chat, subscriptions and microblogging.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/movim/movim.
Topics
- movim
- php
- xmpp
- social-network
- instant-messaging
- chat
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Is Movim free and open source?
Yes. Movim is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Movim with Docker?
Yes. Movim provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Movim?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Movim include Mastodon, Discourse and Flarum.
Is Movim actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Movim was on Oct 24, 2026 with 685 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.35.4, published Oct 24, 2026. It had 37 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.