Past Bluesky: These are the apps constructing social experiences on the AT Protocol
A 12 months in the past, Bluesky was opening as much as the general public and was often called one of many many X rivals that emerged after Elon Musk acquired the community previously often called Twitter. Right now, Bluesky’s social community has grown to over 36.5 million customers, whereas the know-how it’s constructed upon — the AT Protocol (or ATProto for brief) — is getting used to develop dozens extra purposes designed to work collectively as a part of an open social internet.
The builders behind many of those apps attended the primary convention devoted to the AT Protocol, ATmosphere, held in Seattle in late March 2025. There, they realized what’s forward for ATProto, what challenges nonetheless should be overcome, and what different issues they’ll want to consider as they construct for this new social app ecosystem. Others attended on-line, watched the talks and shows remotely, and took part in a rising Discord chat for group members.
The ATProto group is working to rebuild a lot of what was once Internet 2.0, an earlier model of the social internet that included social media web sites, blogs, wikis, video- and photo-sharing websites, and different collaborative and hosted companies. This time round, the apps are being constructed on open know-how, not siloed into centralized companies that are typically operated by tech giants.
Bluesky was the primary of those companies to emerge, but when the open social internet motion has any endurance, it received’t be the final.
Under is an inventory of AT Protocol-based, consumer-facing apps which can be both constructed on prime of Bluesky or its underlying protocol, permitting customers to take again management over their social networking experiences and private knowledge. Many of those are nonetheless in early improvement however showcase the potential for what’s forward on this increasing ecosystem.
It is a work in progress! Apps are nonetheless being added. Feeling neglected? Electronic mail sarahp@techcrunch.com. (Observe that this listing is concentrated on consumer-facing apps folks can use now, not small initiatives or dev instruments.)
Picture and video-sharing apps
Flashes
Flashes is an Instagram different based mostly on Berlin developer Sebastian Vogelsang’s earlier app, Skeets, a Bluesky consumer. Launched publicly on the finish of February, Flashes grabbed 30,000 downloads in its first 24 hours for providing a traditional Instagram expertise. Customers can add as much as 4 photographs or movies of as much as 3 minutes in size, up from 1 minute beforehand, due to an replace Bluesky launched. The app gives picture filters, curated feeds from artists, customized feeds, and a Portfolio Mode the place photographers can showcase their work.
Spark
Spark (initially referred to as Reelo) is a video-first app that’s constructed on prime of the AT Protocol, not simply Bluesky. That permits the app to distinguish itself with a broader function set that can embody assist for longer movies, filters, results, a music library, and, finally, livestreaming.
Skylight Social
Constructed by Seattle-based co-founders Victoria (“Tori”) White and Reed Harmeyer, Skylight is constructed on prime of Bluesky, providing options similar to likes, follows, feedback, and profile pages. Customers can comply with the app’s energetic improvement on its co-founder’s TikTok web page because the workforce provides extra options, together with video assist.
The app is in testing on iOS and Android.
Pinksky
Pinksky is one other considered one of many apps attempting to construct an alternative choice to Instagram utilizing ATProto. Constructed by developer Ramon Souza, the app is accessible on each iOS and Android and can focus primarily on photo-sharing, like traditional Instagram did. The app gives comparable options to Instagram, together with person profiles, a feed of photographs and movies, and a Tales part the place posts stay seen for twenty-four hours.
Bluescreen (TikTok different)
Bluescreen, additionally constructed by Vogelsang, is an upcoming app that can deal with movies posted to the Bluesky social community.
Movies for Bluesky
The generically named Movies for Bluesky is one other app constructed on prime of Bluesky from “MszPro,” aka Hoshida Takiyoshi, an indie Japanese developer. Like others, Movies for Bluesky permits you to browse movies posted to the Bluesky social community by vertically scrolling in a TikTok-like person interface with acquainted Like, Repost, and Reply buttons.
Skyswipe
One other TikTok-like video app for Bluesky, Skyswipe defines itself by a gesture-first interface, Reddit-style threaded feedback, assist for customized feeds, bookmarks, reposts, and extra. The app is at present obtainable on TestFlight beta testing.
Omni
Omni gives a Bluesky consumer for iOS designed for sharing short-form movies. The app additionally consists of AI-powered content material planning and e-commerce integration. The app is at present in beta testing.
Livestreaming
Streamplace
Streamplace is the primary livestreaming video service constructed on prime of the AT Protocol. The service, which was just lately used to livestream the ATmosphere convention in Seattle, gives a well-known streaming expertise with assist for high-quality movies, livestreaming, clips, and uploads. All of the video content material can be cryptographically signed by creators and respects their consent preferences. It’s constructed on the identical public key infrastructure as decentralized social networks.
Based by Eli Mallon, Streamplace was initially backed by his earlier employer, Livepeer (one other decentralized video platform), which operated a crypto treasury the place funds are invested into different initiatives. That allowed him to get Streamplace off the bottom. Now he sees potential in constructing out a know-how that would attraction to creators like Twitch streamers, who would somewhat join immediately with followers by means of their very own app or web site as a substitute of getting to separate their income with Twitch proprietor Amazon.
Feed builders
Graze
Graze is a startup that permits you to simply construct, customise, publish, and handle Bluesky feeds and, finally, monetize them with advertisements, sponsored posts, and subscriptions. The service is working with the Bluesky firehose, aka the Jetstream, which incorporates all the general public posts on the social community.
Surf
Flipboard’s latest app, Surf, permits you to construct your individual customized feeds from throughout the open internet, together with not solely Bluesky but in addition Mastodon, RSS, and extra. Which means you possibly can combine in information articles, weblog posts, podcasts, and YouTube feeds into the customized feeds you construct in Surf, alongside social posts. You possibly can then use Surf to browse your feeds and others from the group throughout a variety of subjects and pursuits. Surf continues to be in non-public beta testing, however a signup listing is accessible.
SkyFeed
An internet-based, TweetDeck-like consumer for Bluesky, SkyFeed permits you to create a dashboard of your feeds and profiles. Nevertheless, most of its customers come to SkyFeed as a result of it additionally gives a straightforward method for even non-developers to construct customized feeds based mostly on lists or regexes.
Communication / social discovery
Germ
Germ’s huge thought is not only to supply an alternative choice to your cellphone messages, like Sign, however to construct a social platform the place you might uncover and join with others for any motive: market exchanges, courting, social networking, and extra. Nevertheless, it could be one the place you had been in charge of the information you had been sharing and will cease that sharing at any time.
At present an end-to-end encrypted messenger that you would be able to obtain from the App Retailer, Germ permits you to construct and share a number of identities. Plus, you can begin chatting with somebody on Germ even when they don’t have the app put in, due to its use of Apple’s App Clips know-how. This lets you have a light-weight app expertise in your iPhone earlier than you obtain the complete utility from the App Retailer.
Germ was based by author and Stanford lecturer Tessa Brown (CEO) and former Apple privateness engineer Mark Xue (CTO). The workforce is now engaged on a Bluesky integration that will permit customers to talk securely with their Bluesky mates.
Roomy
A peer-to-peer messaging app constructed on the AT Protocol, Roomy is analogous in some methods to Discord however faucets into open requirements. As an example, ATProto is used for social discovery, whereas Automerge is used for peer-to-peer discovery. The app is backed by funding from Skyseed and is at present in alpha testing.
You possibly can log into Roomy together with your Bluesky account and direct message different customers to interact in chats. The messages are encrypted, however that is an experimental mission and never audited, so bear in mind. Plus, some non-encrypted metadata reveals who you had been speaking to however not the contents of these messages. (In different phrases, don’t swap out Sign for Roomy but.)
Social traits
Dazzle.fm
Based by former Stability AI engineers John Sabath and Conner Ruhl, Dazzle gives a web site that is smart of the firehose of knowledge from Bluesky and organizes it into classes, highlighting the traits throughout numerous subjects. Whereas a lot of the early dialogue on Bluesky as we speak leans political, Dazzle’s website may help you discover different subjects and conversations going down.
Dazzle permits you to give it directions to tune the location to your individual pursuits, too. You would ask it to indicate you a subject however with none posts that includes political discussions, for instance. Which means you might use Dazzle to indicate you native information, however not nationwide politics, or you might preserve your expertise targeted solely on those that are posting with a optimistic sentiment.
The concept is that you simply’ll be capable of change between these completely different modes, generated utilizing AI know-how, with out really having to construct customized feeds. As a substitute, you possibly can simply kind in what you need to see (or not see) right into a chat-like interface, then have Dazzle reconfigure itself to give you posts that match no matter “vibe” you had simply requested.
Sill
Hyperlink aggregation service Sill permits you to sustain with what everybody’s speaking about on different social media websites like Bluesky and Mastodon in a single place. The service is just like the older startup Nuzzel, which was acquired by Twitter as a part of its deal for Scroll in 2021, then built-in into Twitter’s app. Well-liked with information junkies, Nuzzel helped customers preserve monitor of what everybody on Twitter was speaking about, studying, and resharing that day.
Sill can be among the many early adopters utilizing Bluesky’s OAuth for the AT Protocol as a substitute of app passwords, making it simpler to log in. As soon as linked, you’ll see essentially the most shared hyperlinks throughout your companies and the ensuing conversations.
Frontpage
A decentralized and federated hyperlink aggregator constructed on ATProto, Frontpage gives a easy interface for organizing and upvoting attention-grabbing posts and hyperlinks being shared throughout the social community. It additionally helps commenting and notifications.
BlueFacts — Bluesky Developments & Insights
BlueFacts‘ app gives a strategy to uncover attention-grabbing folks and traits on Bluesky, in addition to different person rankings, development statistics, content material rankings, feed instruments, and extra. The app may very well be useful specifically for social media managers on the lookout for a greater understanding of what’s and who’re in style on Bluesky, or anybody else looking for participating accounts to comply with.
Different Bluesky purchasers
Skeets
Additionally by Vogelsang, Skeets is an alternative choice to Bluesky’s predominant app that’s optimized for accessibility and works nicely on each iPhone and iPad.
Deck.blue
One other TweetDeck-style internet app, Deck.blue permits you to fill your display with columns that includes your Residence feed, Notifications, customized feeds, lists, and extra. The app additionally helps a number of accounts and the scheduling of posts.
Dragonfly
Dragonfly gives an alternate consumer app for Bluesky customers on macOS and iPad, with assist for different platforms nonetheless within the works. The app is designed to supply among the options the primary Bluesky app doesn’t have, most notably: Bookmarks and assist for Drafts. The app is subscription-based at 99 cents/month, $9.99/12 months, or $24.99 as a one-time buy.
Beeskie
Constructed completely for Home windows customers, Beeskie is a free and open supply app that’s been constructed to match the Home windows design language. The app is at present in beta and gives a primary set of options, however is constant to evolve.
Skywalker
The Skywalker app brings a third-party Bluesky expertise to Android customers, which provides a handful of in-demand options like bookmarks and saving drafts.
Increase Blue
Increase Blue is one other Bluesky consumer that focuses on options that Bluesky itself has to date missed. This consists of issues like assist for drafts and bookmarks, a strategy to keep away from seeing spoilers, a strategy to mute reposts from specific customers, and a strategy to protect your studying place so you possibly can decide up the place you left off within the Following feed. Plus, you possibly can add clickable hyperlinks to your submit’s textual content. The app is accessible as a free obtain on iOS and Android.
Occasions
Smoke Sign
An occasion and RSVP administration system, Smoke Sign is the Bluesky different to one thing like Eventbrite or Fb Occasions. Constructed on prime of ATProto, Smoke Sign helps OAuth, permitting customers to find communities and create and RSVP to occasions whereas additionally retaining maintain of their very own private knowledge.
OpenMeet
An ATProto-based different to Meetup.com, OpenMeet is an open supply platform that permits folks to create curiosity teams, skilled networking teams, group teams, and others, and schedule and handle occasions. Guests can use the location to search out native occasions and actions and securely talk with different group members. The service additionally retains person data non-public, it says. OpenMeet is managed by open supply contributors.
Running a blog
White Wind
A Markdown running a blog service for the AT Protocol, White Wind permits you to use your ATProto account to log in, then write in Markdown. The service consists of instruments for importing photographs, previewing your submit, and extra, with every little thing saved in your account’s PDS (private knowledge service). If you submit on Bluesky, these replies are included in your weblog robotically.
Analytics
BlueSkyHunter
Largely a development and analytics toolset for Bluesky, BlueSkyHunter additionally gives a strategy to faucet into traits on the social community. One part within the app referred to as Viral Posts showcases the extra in style posts. This might assist content material planners decide up on traits and memes or discover templates which can be in style with different customers that they may undertake.
Fedica
Fedica gives a web-based dashboard that lets you compose and schedule posts throughout social networks, together with Bluesky, Threads, X, Mastodon, and Pixelfed, amongst others. It additionally helps extra conventional social apps like Fb, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, and YouTube. Included in its plans are a wide range of options for social listening, instruments for monitoring hashtags, key phrases, and submit attain, in addition to these for follower evaluation.
Cross-posting
OpenVibe
Openvibe’s app lets you cross-post to a number of social networks directly, together with Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and Threads. The app — backed by Czech Founders VC and Automattic — is designed to be an easy-to-use gateway to the open social internet, as you don’t have to change apps always to maintain up with mates on a number of networks. As a substitute, you possibly can browse all their updates in a mixed timeline.
Croissant
Croissant’s easy cross-posting app for iOS gives a strategy to attain customers on Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads from one place. The app helps including issues like photographs, alt textual content, hashtags, threaded posts, and different service-specific options. Croissant is accessible as a subscription at $2.99/month or $19.99/12 months or as a one-time buy of $59.99.
Fedica
Additionally listed above below the analytics part, Fedica gives a cross-posting function the place posts could be scheduled or posted dwell.
Social critiques
Skylights
To not be confused with the video app Skylight above, Skylights is a public critiques platform constructed on AT Proto the place you possibly can evaluation books, films, and TV reveals, with plans so as to add assist for reviewing papers and URLs sooner or later. Not like conventional evaluation platforms, the information you share on Skylights is yours, not “locked right into a silo,” the web site notes.
Popsky
Nonetheless in open beta on iOS, Popsky is designed to be a spot the place you possibly can uncover and focus on your favourite TV reveals, films, books, and video video games. Additionally constructed on the AT Protocol, you possibly can mark gadgets as in progress or accomplished (or watched), handle spoilers, import knowledge from Letterboxd, and extra, with critiques and discussions synced again to Bluesky’s social community.
Music and audio apps
Rocksky
A music monitoring and discovery platform constructed on prime of the AT Protocol, Rocksky is constructing one thing akin to the Final.fm for the decentralized internet. Just like Final.fm, Rocksky permits you to “scribble” your listening exercise, monitor your stats, discover music, and share your musical style, with out your knowledge being tied to a single platform. The service additionally plans to be open-sourced sooner or later.
Bluecast
Bluecast’s real-time audio streaming service for Bluesky customers lets anybody begin streaming with out particular tools. The service’s internet app works throughout platforms, together with cellular and desktop, and consists of options like multi-guest streaming, streaming karaoke, background music and sound results, visible results, and different superior options.
Video games/experiences
Twigbit Video games’ SkyMuseum
Constructed on Bluesky, SkyMuseum permits you to work together with different artists by internet hosting your individual on-line artwork gallery. The present app permits you to host as much as 32 gamers who can log in and think about your artwork in a museum-like expertise, just like these on gaming platforms like Roblox.
Utilities
Cred.blue
Cred.blue’s service offers you a straightforward strategy to generate a “rating” based mostly on a person’s id within the ATProto ecosystem. Whereas in some methods the thought of scoring somebody’s social exercise makes this sound like a Klout for the open social internet, Cred.blue’s objective is to assist customers perceive extra concerning the folks they comply with and whether or not their account is wholesome and energetic. The scoring takes under consideration a person’s public knowledge, like their posts’ content material, likes, social graph, and extra, in addition to their involvement with the bigger ATProto ecosystem. Customers can even see the place they rank on a Leaderboard that spans Bluesky on the AT Protocol community.
Mutesky
The service supplied by Mutesky permits you to bulk handle Bluesky mutes — that means subjects you don’t need to see as a part of the Bluesky expertise — in a single handy dashboard. Right here, you possibly can management whether or not or not you need to see issues like political discourse, social points, world affairs, faith, healthcare, and others when looking the Bluesky social community. You possibly can much more narrowly dig into area of interest subjects inside classes to specify which subtopics must be muted.
Listifications
This utility is just an account you comply with on Blueksy that can notify you thru a DM when somebody on the platform provides you to a Starter Pack, block listing, or if somebody blocks your account immediately. It will probably assist people who find themselves attempting to develop their following — and even simply those that need to know what folks consider them!
Bluesky Tracker – Supervisor
This app for each iOS and Android permits you to preserve monitor of your individual recognition and stats on Bluesky by providing a dashboard the place you possibly can view real-time followers and unfollowers statistics, and different metrics. The app can monitor your posts and stats, present you who’s blocking you, monitor your lokes, and allow you to bulk comply with or unfollow.
Different apps
Woosh
A mission constructed by the workforce at Federation Studio, Whoosh is constructing the Linktree for the open social internet. The service permits customers to share and showcase their on-line presence in a single place, which might embody every little thing from their open social profiles on Bluesky to these on bigger platforms like TikTok. Nevertheless, all the information created on Woosh is saved to your Bluesky or AT Protocol person account, which suggests you might publish your individual App View to render your web page the way in which you need, or use different companies to take action sooner or later.
AzSky
An open social different to a dialogue discussion board website like Reddit, AzSky is powered by Bluesky. Customers can be a part of communities and have interaction in discussions with others who share their pursuits throughout subjects like information, know-how, gaming, films, books, and extra. You may also monitor “trending” conversations going down throughout Bluesky from AzSky, that are these discussions which have tons of (and even 1000’s) of feedback.
Flushes
This foolish social app, Flushes, permits you to submit a “flush” whenever you’re within the lavatory, which is revealed on AT Proto. Why a decentralized lavatory app? Why not!
Navyfragen — Nameless Inbox
Just like apps like NGL for Instagram, this new app permits you to enroll together with your Bluesky account and create an inbox the place customers can ask you nameless questions. You possibly can then submit your solutions to Bluesky on your followers to see. The system is protected in opposition to spam by Anubis’s bot detection service and gives its supply code on GitHub.
SkySpace
Nonetheless a work-in-progress, SkySpace is constructing a customizable social app for utilizing Bluesky that’s meant to resemble MySpace. The app will permit customers to edit their profiles, including music and pursuits, and preserve monitor of their on-line mates.
This was initially revealed on March 30, 2025, and was final up to date on June 13, 2025.