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. Right now, Bluesky’s social community has grown to over 36.5 million customers, whereas the expertise 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 net.
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 discovered 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 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 once Net 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 expertise, 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.
Beneath is an inventory of AT Protocol-based, consumer-facing apps which are both constructed on high 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 omitted? E mail sarahp@techcrunch.com. (Notice that this checklist is targeted on consumer-facing apps individuals 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 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 referred to as Reelo) is a video-first app that’s constructed on high of the AT Protocol, not simply Bluesky. That permits the app to distinguish itself with a broader characteristic set that can embody help 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 high of Bluesky, providing options resembling likes, follows, feedback, and profile pages. Customers can observe the app’s lively improvement on its co-founder’s TikTok web 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 certainly one of many apps attempting to construct an alternative choice to Instagram utilizing ATProto. Constructed by developer Ramon Souza, the app is offered on each iOS and Android and can focus primarily on photo-sharing, like basic Instagram did. The app provides comparable 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 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 high 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, help for customized feeds, bookmarks, reposts, and extra. The app is presently obtainable 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 high of the AT Protocol. The service, which was not too long ago used to livestream the ATmosphere convention in Seattle, provides a well-known 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 expertise that might enchantment to creators like Twitch streamers, who would somewhat join immediately with followers by means 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 permits you to simply construct, customise, publish, and handle Bluesky feeds and, ultimately, 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, allows you to construct your personal customized feeds from throughout the open net, together with not solely Bluesky but additionally Mastodon, RSS, and extra. Meaning 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 matters and pursuits. Surf remains to be in non-public beta testing, however a signup checklist is offered.
SkyFeed
An internet-based, TweetDeck-like shopper for Bluesky, SkyFeed allows you to create a dashboard of your feeds and profiles. Nevertheless, most of its customers come to SkyFeed as a result of it additionally provides a straightforward means for even non-developers to construct customized feeds based mostly on lists or regexes.
Communication / social discovery
Germ
Germ’s huge concept isn’t just 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, relationship, social networking, and extra. Nevertheless, it will be one the place you had been in charge of the information you had been sharing and will cease that sharing at any time.
Presently an end-to-end encrypted messenger that you would be able to 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 expertise. 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 may enable customers to talk 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. For 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 presently in alpha testing.
You possibly can log into Roomy along with your Bluesky account and direct message different customers to interact in chats. The messages are encrypted, however that is an experimental challenge and never audited, so remember. 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 provides an internet 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 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 location to your personal pursuits, too. You might ask it to point out you a subject however with none posts that includes political discussions, for instance. Meaning you might use Dazzle to point out you native information, however not nationwide politics, or you might maintain your expertise targeted solely on those that are posting with a optimistic sentiment.
The thought is that you just’ll be capable of swap between these totally different modes, generated utilizing AI expertise, with out truly having to construct customized feeds. As a substitute, you possibly can simply sort 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 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 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. Common with information junkies, Nuzzel helped customers maintain 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 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 fascinating posts and hyperlinks being shared throughout the social community. It additionally helps commenting and notifications.
BlueFacts — Bluesky Developments & Insights
BlueFacts‘ app provides a method to uncover fascinating individuals and traits on Bluesky, in addition to different consumer rankings, development statistics, content material rankings, feed instruments, and extra. The app might be useful specifically for social media managers on the lookout for a greater understanding of what’s and who’re standard on Bluesky, or anybody else looking for partaking accounts to observe.
Various Bluesky purchasers
Skeets
Additionally by Vogelsang, Skeets is an alternative choice to Bluesky’s primary app that’s optimized for accessibility and works properly on each iPhone and iPad.
Deck.blue
One other TweetDeck-style net app, Deck.blue allows you to fill your display with columns that includes your Dwelling 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 shopper app for Bluesky customers on macOS and iPad, with help for different platforms nonetheless within the works. The app is designed to supply among the options the principle Bluesky app doesn’t have, most notably: Bookmarks and help 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 primary set of options, however is continuous 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 thus far ignored. This consists of issues like help for drafts and bookmarks, a method to keep away from seeing spoilers, a method to mute reposts from explicit customers, and a method 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 offered 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 high of ATProto, Smoke Sign helps OAuth, permitting customers to find communities and create and RSVP to occasions whereas additionally conserving 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 location to search out native occasions and actions and securely talk with different group members. The service additionally retains consumer info 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 every thing saved in your account’s PDS (private information service). Once you submit on Bluesky, these replies are included in your weblog mechanically.
Analytics
BlueSkyHunter
Largely a development and analytics toolset for Bluesky, BlueSkyHunter additionally provides a method 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 may 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 quite a lot 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 net, as you don’t have to change apps continuously to maintain up with associates 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 method 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 offered as a subscription at $2.99/month or $19.99/yr or as a one-time buy of $59.99.
Fedica
Additionally listed above underneath the analytics part, Fedica provides a cross-posting characteristic the place posts will be scheduled or posted stay.
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 help for reviewing papers and URLs sooner or later. In contrast to 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 information 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 high of the AT Protocol, Rocksky is constructing one thing akin to the Final.fm for the decentralized net. Just 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 gear. The service’s net 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 personal on-line artwork gallery. The present app allows you to host as much as 32 gamers who can log in and look at 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 method to generate a “rating” based mostly on a consumer’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 individuals they observe and whether or not their account is wholesome and lively. The scoring takes into 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 can even 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 wish 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 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 solely 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 may possibly assist people who find themselves attempting to develop their following — and even simply those that wish to know what individuals consider them!
Bluesky Tracker – Supervisor
This app for each iOS and Android allows you to maintain observe of your personal 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 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 embody every 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 consumer account, which suggests you might publish your personal App View to render your web page the way in which 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 a part of communities and have interaction in discussions with others who share their pursuits throughout matters like information, expertise, gaming, films, books, and extra. You can even observe “trending” conversations going down throughout Bluesky from AzSky, that are these discussions which have a whole bunch (and even hundreds) of feedback.
Flushes
This foolish social app, Flushes, allows you to submit a “flush” whenever you’re within the lavatory, which is printed on AT Proto. Why a decentralized lavatory app? Why not!
Navyfragen — Nameless Inbox
Just like apps like NGL for Instagram, this new app allows you to enroll along 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 towards 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 maintain observe of their on-line associates.
This was initially printed on March 30, 2025, and was final up to date on June 13, 2025.
