A yr in the past, Bluesky was opening as much as the general public and was often called one of many many X opponents that emerged after Elon Musk acquired the community previously often called Twitter. As we speak, 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 functions 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 must 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 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 internet motion has any endurance, it gained’t be the final.
Under is a listing of AT Protocol-based, consumer-facing apps which might be both constructed on prime of Bluesky or its underlying protocol, permitting customers to take again management over their social networking experiences and private information. 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 not noted? E-mail sarahp@techcrunch.com. (Be aware that this record is concentrated on consumer-facing apps individuals can use now, not small tasks or dev instruments.)
Photograph and video-sharing apps
Flashes
Flashes is an Instagram different primarily based on Berlin developer Sebastian Vogelsang’s earlier app, Skeets, a Bluesky shopper. 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, because of an replace Bluesky launched. The app provides picture filters, curated feeds from artists, customized feeds, and a Portfolio Mode the place photographers can showcase their work.
Spark
Spark (initially known 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 may embrace assist for longer movies, filters, results, a music library, and, ultimately, livestreaming.
Skylight Social
Constructed by Seattle-based co-founders Victoria (“Tori”) White and Reed Harmeyer, Skylight is constructed on prime of Bluesky, providing options reminiscent of likes, follows, feedback, and profile pages. Customers can observe the app’s lively improvement on its co-founder’s TikTok web page because the group provides extra options, together with video assist.
The app is in testing on iOS and Android.
Pinksky
Pinksky is one other one in every of many apps making an attempt to construct a substitute for 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 consumer 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 may 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 allows you to browse movies posted to the Bluesky social community by vertically scrolling in a TikTok-like consumer 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 presently out there on TestFlight beta testing.
Omni
Omni provides a Bluesky shopper 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 presently 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 assist 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 tasks. That allowed him to get Streamplace off the bottom. Now he sees potential in constructing out a know-how that might attraction to creators like Twitch streamers, who would relatively join straight with followers by way 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, ultimately, 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, allows 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’ll be able to then use Surf to browse your feeds and others from the group throughout a variety of matters and pursuits. Surf continues to be in non-public beta testing, however a signup record is obtainable.
SkyFeed
An online-based, TweetDeck-like shopper for Bluesky, SkyFeed allows 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 means for even non-developers to construct customized feeds primarily based on lists or regexes.
Communication / social discovery
Germ
Germ’s large thought isn’t just to supply a substitute for your telephone messages, like Sign, however to construct a social platform the place you could possibly uncover and join with others for any purpose: market exchanges, courting, social networking, and extra. Nonetheless, it will be one the place you had been in command of the information you had been sharing and will cease that sharing at any time.
At the moment an end-to-end encrypted messenger which you can obtain from the App Retailer, Germ allows 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, because of 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 total 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 group is now engaged on a Bluesky integration that might enable customers to talk securely with their Bluesky mates.
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 illustration, 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 presently in alpha testing.
You’ll be able to log into Roomy along with your Bluesky account and direct message different customers to have interaction in chats. The messages are encrypted, however that is an experimental challenge and never audited, so remember. Plus, some non-encrypted metadata exhibits 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 tendencies
Dazzle.fm
Based by former Stability AI engineers John Sabath and Conner Ruhl, Dazzle provides an internet site that is smart of the firehose of information from Bluesky and organizes it into classes, highlighting the tendencies throughout numerous matters. Whereas a lot of the early dialogue on Bluesky right this moment leans political, Dazzle’s website will help you discover different matters and conversations going down.
Dazzle allows you to give it directions to tune the positioning 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 could possibly use Dazzle to indicate you native information, however not nationwide politics, or you could possibly hold your expertise centered solely on those that are posting with a constructive sentiment.
The thought is that you simply’ll be capable to change between these totally different modes, generated utilizing AI know-how, with out truly 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 allows 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 much 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. Common with information junkies, Nuzzel helped customers hold observe 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 a substitute of app passwords, making it simpler to log in. As soon as linked, you’ll see probably 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 Tendencies & Insights
BlueFacts‘ app provides a technique to uncover attention-grabbing individuals and tendencies on Bluesky, in addition to different consumer rankings, development statistics, content material rankings, feed instruments, and extra. The app may very well be useful specifically for social media managers searching for a greater understanding of what’s and who’re well-liked on Bluesky, or anybody else looking for partaking accounts to observe.
Various Bluesky shoppers
Skeets
Additionally by Vogelsang, Skeets is a substitute for Bluesky’s predominant app that’s optimized for accessibility and works effectively on each iPhone and iPad.
Deck.blue
One other TweetDeck-style internet app, Deck.blue allows 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 another shopper app for Bluesky customers on macOS and iPad, with assist 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 assist for Drafts. The app is subscription-based at 99 cents/month, $9.99/yr, 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 presently in beta and provides a fundamental 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.
Enhance Blue
Enhance Blue is one other Bluesky shopper that focuses on options that Bluesky itself has to date neglected. This consists of issues like assist for drafts and bookmarks, a technique to keep away from seeing spoilers, a technique to mute reposts from specific customers, and a technique to protect your studying place so you possibly can choose 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 obtainable 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 holding maintain of their very own private information.
OpenMeet
An ATProto-based different to Meetup.com, OpenMeet is an open supply platform that permits individuals to create curiosity teams, skilled networking teams, group teams, and others, and schedule and handle occasions. Guests can use the positioning to seek out native occasions and actions and securely talk with different group members. The service additionally retains consumer 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 allows 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 the whole lot saved in your account’s PDS (private information service). If you submit on Bluesky, these replies are included in your weblog routinely.
Analytics
BlueSkyHunter
Largely a development and analytics toolset for Bluesky, BlueSkyHunter additionally provides a technique to faucet into tendencies on the social community. One part within the app known as Viral Posts showcases the extra well-liked posts. This might assist content material planners choose up on tendencies and memes or discover templates which might be well-liked with different customers that they might undertake.
Fedica
Fedica provides a web-based dashboard that means that you can 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 means that you can 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 internet, as you don’t have to change apps continuously 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 provides a technique 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 obtainable as a subscription at $2.99/month or $19.99/yr or as a one-time buy of $59.99.
Fedica
Additionally listed above beneath the analytics part, Fedica provides a cross-posting function the place posts will be scheduled or posted reside.
Social opinions
Skylights
To not be confused with the video app Skylight above, Skylights is a public opinions platform constructed on AT Proto the place you possibly can assessment books, motion pictures, and TV exhibits, with plans so as to add assist for reviewing papers and URLs sooner or later. Not like conventional assessment 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 exhibits, motion pictures, books, and video video games. Additionally constructed on the AT Protocol, you possibly can mark objects as in progress or accomplished (or watched), handle spoilers, import information from Letterboxd, and extra, with opinions 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. Much like Final.fm, Rocksky allows you to “scribble” your listening exercise, observe your stats, discover music, and share your musical style, with out your information 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 allows you to work together with different artists by internet hosting your individual on-line artwork gallery. The present app allows you to host as much as 32 gamers who can log in and think about your artwork in a museum-like expertise, much like these on gaming platforms like Roblox.
Utilities
Cred.blue
Cred.blue’s service offers you a simple technique to generate a “rating” primarily based on a consumer’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 purpose is to assist customers perceive extra concerning the individuals they observe and whether or not their account is wholesome and lively. The scoring takes under consideration a consumer’s public information, 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 allows you to bulk handle Bluesky mutes — that means matters 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 shopping the Bluesky social community. You’ll be able to 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 may notify you thru a DM when somebody on the platform provides you to a Starter Pack, block record, or if somebody blocks your account straight. It may well assist people who find themselves making an attempt to develop their following — and even simply those that need to know what individuals consider them!
Bluesky Tracker – Supervisor
This app for each iOS and Android allows you to hold observe 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 observe your posts and stats, present you who’s blocking you, observe your lokes, and allow you to bulk observe or unfollow.
Different apps
Woosh
A challenge constructed by the group 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 embrace the whole lot 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 consumer account, which implies you could possibly 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 website 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, motion pictures, books, and extra. You may as well observe “trending” conversations going down throughout Bluesky from AzSky, that are these discussions which have a whole lot (and even hundreds) of feedback.
Flushes
This foolish social app, Flushes, allows you to submit a “flush” once you’re within the toilet, which is revealed on AT Proto. Why a decentralized toilet app? Why not!
Navyfragen — Nameless Inbox
Much like apps like NGL for Instagram, this new app allows you to join along with your Bluesky account and create an inbox the place customers can ask you nameless questions. You’ll be able to 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 provides 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 enable customers to edit their profiles, including music and pursuits, and hold observe of their on-line mates.
This was initially revealed on March 30, 2025, and was final up to date on June 13, 2025.
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