A in the past, Bluesky was opening up to the public and was referred to as one of many many X competitors that emerged after Elon Musk acquired the community previously referred to as Twitter. At present, 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 net.
The builders behind many of those apps attended the first conference dedicated to the AT Protocol, ATmosphere, held in Seattle in late March 2025. There, they discovered 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 displays remotely, and took part in a rising Discord chat for group members.
The ATProto group is working to rebuild a lot of what was Web 2.0, an earlier model of the social net that included social media web sites, blogs, wikis, video- and photo-sharing websites, and different collaborative and hosted providers. This time round, the apps are being constructed on open know-how, not siloed into centralized providers that are usually operated by tech giants.
Bluesky was the primary of those providers to emerge, but when the open social net motion has any endurance, it received’t be the final.
Under is an inventory of AT Protocol-based, consumer-facing apps which are 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 ignored? E mail [email protected]. (Notice that this checklist is concentrated on consumer-facing apps folks can use now, not small initiatives or dev instruments.)
Photograph 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 basic 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, thanks to an update Bluesky released. The app provides photograph 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 characteristic set that can embrace help 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 equivalent to likes, follows, feedback, and profile pages. Customers can observe the app’s lively improvement on its co-founder’s TikTok page because the crew provides extra options, together with video help.
The app is in testing on iOS and Android.
Pinksky
Pinksky is one other considered one of many apps making an attempt to construct an alternative choice to Instagram utilizing ATProto. Constructed by developer Ramon Souza, the app is obtainable on each iOS and Android and can focus primarily on photo-sharing, like basic Instagram did. The app provides related 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 give attention to movies posted to the Bluesky social community.
Movies for Bluesky
The generically named Videos 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 helps 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, help for customized feeds, bookmarks, reposts, and extra. The app is at present accessible on TestFlight beta testing.
Omni
Omni provides a Bluesky consumer for iOS designed for sharing short-form movies. The app additionally contains 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 lately used to livestream the ATmosphere convention in Seattle, provides a well-recognized streaming expertise with help for high-quality movies, livestreaming, clips, and uploads. All of the video content material can also 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 might enchantment to creators like Twitch streamers, who would moderately join immediately with followers by way of their very own app or web site as an alternative of getting to separate their income with Twitch proprietor Amazon.
Feed builders
Graze
Graze is a startup that lets you easily build, customise, publish, and handle Bluesky feeds and, finally, monetize them with adverts, 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, helps you to construct your individual customized feeds from throughout the open net, together with not solely Bluesky but additionally Mastodon, RSS, and extra. Which means you may 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 matters and pursuits. Surf continues to be in personal beta testing, however a signup list is obtainable.
SkyFeed
An online-based, TweetDeck-like consumer for Bluesky, SkyFeed helps you to create a dashboard of your feeds and profiles. Nonetheless, most of its customers come to SkyFeed as a result of it additionally provides a simple method for even non-developers to construct customized feeds based mostly on lists or regexes.
Communication / social discovery
Germ
Germ’s massive concept isn’t just to supply an alternative choice to your cellphone messages, like Sign, however to construct a social platform the place you may uncover and join with others for any purpose: market exchanges, courting, social networking, and extra. Nonetheless, it might be one the place you have been in charge of the information you have been sharing and will cease that sharing at any time.
Presently an end-to-end encrypted messenger which you can obtain from the App Retailer, Germ helps 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 crew is now engaged on a Bluesky integration that will permit customers to speak securely with their Bluesky associates.
Roomy
A peer-to-peer messaging app constructed on the AT Protocol, Roomy is comparable 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 undertaking and never audited, so remember. Plus, some non-encrypted metadata reveals who you have 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 provides a web site that is smart of the firehose of information from Bluesky and organizes it into classes, highlighting the traits throughout numerous matters. Whereas a lot of the early dialogue on Bluesky right now leans political, Dazzle’s web site will help you discover different matters and conversations going down.
Dazzle helps you to give it directions to tune the location to your individual pursuits, too. You may ask it to indicate you a subject however with none posts that includes political discussions, for instance. Which means you may use Dazzle to indicate you native information, however not nationwide politics, or you may maintain your expertise targeted solely on those that are posting with a optimistic sentiment.
The concept is that you simply’ll be capable to change between these completely different modes, generated utilizing AI know-how, with out truly having to construct customized feeds. As a substitute, you may simply kind in what you wish 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 helps 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 maintain monitor of what everybody on Twitter was speaking about, studying, and resharing that day.
Sill can also be among the many early adopters utilizing Bluesky’s OAuth for the AT Protocol as an alternative of app passwords, making it simpler to log in. As soon as linked, you’ll see essentially the most shared hyperlinks throughout your providers and the ensuing conversations.
Frontpage
A decentralized and federated hyperlink aggregator constructed on ATProto, Frontpage provides 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 provides a option 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 could possibly be useful particularly for social media managers searching for a greater understanding of what’s and who’re standard on Bluesky, or anybody else looking for partaking accounts to observe.
Different Bluesky purchasers
Skeets
Additionally by Vogelsang, Skeets is an alternative choice to Bluesky’s foremost app that’s optimized for accessibility and works effectively on each iPhone and iPad.
Deck.blue
One other TweetDeck-style web app, Deck.blue helps you to fill your display screen with columns that includes your House feed, Notifications, customized feeds, lists, and extra. The app additionally helps a number of accounts and the scheduling of posts.
Dragonfly
Dragonfly provides an alternate consumer app for Bluesky customers on macOS and iPad, with help for different platforms nonetheless within the works. The app is designed to supply a few of the options the primary Bluesky app doesn’t have, most notably: Bookmarks and help for Drafts. The app is subscription-based at 99 cents/month, $9.99/, or $24.99 as a one-time buy.
Beeskie
Constructed solely 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 provides 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
Boost Blue is one other Bluesky consumer that focuses on options that Bluesky itself has to date neglected. This contains issues like help for drafts and bookmarks, a option to keep away from seeing spoilers, a option to mute reposts from specific customers, and a option to protect your studying place so you may decide up the place you left off within the Following feed. Plus, you may add clickable hyperlinks to your submit’s textual content. The app is obtainable as a free obtain on iOS and Android.
Occasions
Smoke Sign
An occasion and RSVP administration system, Smoke Signal 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 preserving 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 seek out native occasions and actions and securely talk with different group members. The service additionally retains person data personal, 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 helps you to use your ATProto account to log in, then write in Markdown. The service contains instruments for importing pictures, previewing your submit, and extra, with every thing saved in your account’s PDS (private knowledge service). While you submit on Bluesky, these replies are included in your weblog robotically.
Analytics
BlueSkyHunter
Largely a growth and analytics toolset for Bluesky, BlueSkyHunter additionally provides a option to faucet into traits on the social community. One part within the app referred to as Viral Posts showcases the extra standard posts. This might assist content material planners decide up on traits and memes or discover templates which are standard with different customers that they might undertake.
Fedica
Fedica provides 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 without delay, 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 net, as you don’t have to modify apps continuously to maintain up with associates on a number of networks. As a substitute, you may browse all their updates in a mixed timeline.
Croissant
Croissant’s easy cross-posting app for iOS provides a option to reach users on Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads from one place. The app helps including issues like pictures, alt textual content, hashtags, threaded posts, and different service-specific options. Croissant is obtainable as a subscription at $2.99/month or $19.99/ or as a one-time buy of $59.99.
Fedica
Additionally listed above beneath the analytics part, Fedica provides a cross-posting characteristic the place posts may be scheduled or posted reside.
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 may overview books, films, and TV reveals, with plans so as to add help for reviewing papers and URLs sooner or later. In contrast to conventional overview 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 may uncover and talk about your favourite TV reveals, films, books, and video video games. Additionally constructed on the AT Protocol, you may mark objects 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 net. Much like Final.fm, Rocksky helps 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 gear. The service’s net app works throughout platforms, together with cell and desktop, and contains 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 helps you to work together with different artists by internet hosting your individual on-line artwork gallery. The present app helps 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 simple option to generate a “rating” based mostly on a person’s id within the ATProto ecosystem. Whereas in some methods the concept of scoring somebody’s social exercise makes this sound like a Klout for the open social net, Cred.blue’s aim is to assist customers perceive extra concerning the folks they observe and whether or not their account is wholesome and lively. 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 also can see the place they rank on a Leaderboard that spans Bluesky on the AT Protocol community.
Mutesky
The service provided by Mutesky helps you to bulk handle Bluesky mutes — which means matters you don’t wish to see as a part of the Bluesky expertise — in a single handy dashboard. Right here, you may management whether or not or not you wish to see issues like political discourse, social points, world affairs, faith, healthcare, and others when shopping the Bluesky social community. You possibly can much more narrowly dig into area of interest matters inside classes to specify which subtopics needs to be muted.
Listifications
This utility is just an account you observe on Blueksy that can notify you thru a DM when somebody on the platform provides you to a Starter Pack, block checklist, or if somebody blocks your account immediately. It could assist people who find themselves making an attempt to develop their following — and even simply those that wish to know what folks consider them!
Bluesky Tracker – Supervisor
This app for each iOS and Android helps you to maintain monitor of your individual recognition and stats on Bluesky by providing a dashboard the place you may 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 observe or unfollow.
Different apps
Woosh
A undertaking constructed by the crew at Federation Studio, Whoosh is constructing the Linktree for the open social net. The service permits customers to share and showcase their on-line presence in a single place, which may embrace every thing from their open social profiles on Bluesky to these on bigger platforms like TikTok. Nonetheless, all the information created on Woosh is saved to your Bluesky or AT Protocol person account, which suggests you may publish your individual App View to render your web page the best way you need, or use different providers to take action sooner or later.
AzSky
An open social different to a dialogue discussion board web site like Reddit, AzSky is powered by Bluesky. Customers can be part of communities and interact in discussions with others who share their pursuits throughout matters like information, know-how, gaming, films, books, and extra. You can even monitor “trending” conversations going down throughout Bluesky from AzSky, that are these discussions which have lots of (and even hundreds) of feedback.
Flushes
This foolish social app, Flushes, helps you to submit a “flush” while you’re within the toilet, which is printed on AT Proto. Why a decentralized toilet app? Why not!
Navyfragen — Nameless Inbox
Much like apps like NGL for Instagram, this new app helps 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 in your followers to see. The system is protected in opposition to spam by Anubis’s bot detection service and provides its source 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 maintain monitor of their on-line associates.
This was initially printed on March 30, 2025, and was final up to date on June 13, 2025.
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