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. 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 internet.
The builders behind many of those apps attended the first 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 neighborhood members.
The ATProto neighborhood is working to rebuild a lot of what was once Net 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 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 ignored? Electronic mail sarahp@techcrunch.com. (Be aware that this record is targeted on consumer-facing apps individuals can use now, not small tasks 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 images or movies of as much as 3 minutes in size, up from 1 minute beforehand, thanks to an replace Bluesky launched. The app gives photograph 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 embody 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 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 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 offered on each iOS and Android and can focus primarily on photo-sharing, like basic Instagram did. The app gives related options to Instagram, together with person profiles, a feed of images 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 concentrate on 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 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 obtainable on TestFlight beta testing.
Omni
Omni gives a Bluesky shopper 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 just lately used to livestream the ATmosphere convention in Seattle, gives 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 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 moderately join straight 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, 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, 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’ll be able to 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 neighborhood throughout a variety of subjects and pursuits. Surf remains to be in non-public beta testing, however a signup record is offered.
SkyFeed
An online-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 gives a simple method for even non-developers to construct customized feeds based mostly on lists or regexes.
Communication / social discovery
Germ
Germ’s huge thought isn’t just to supply an alternative choice to your telephone messages, like Sign, however to construct a social platform the place you might uncover and join with others for any purpose: market exchanges, relationship, social networking, and extra. Nevertheless, it might be one the place you had been in command of the info you had been sharing and will cease that sharing at any time.
At present an end-to-end encrypted messenger 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, 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 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 crew is now engaged on a Bluesky integration that might 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. 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’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 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 tendencies
Dazzle.fm
Based by former Stability AI engineers John Sabath and Conner Ruhl, Dazzle gives an internet site that is sensible of the firehose of information from Bluesky and organizes it into classes, highlighting the tendencies throughout numerous subjects. Whereas a lot of the early dialogue on Bluesky right this moment leans political, Dazzle’s web site may also help you discover different subjects and conversations happening.
Dazzle allows you to give it directions to tune the positioning to your individual pursuits, too. You could possibly ask it to point out you a subject however with none posts that includes political discussions, for instance. Which means you might use Dazzle to point out you native information, however not nationwide politics, or you might hold your expertise centered solely on those that are posting with a constructive sentiment.
The thought is that you just’ll have the ability to swap between these completely different modes, generated utilizing AI know-how, with out truly having to construct customized feeds. As a substitute, you’ll be able to 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 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. Standard 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 an alternative of app passwords, making it simpler to log in. As soon as related, you’ll see probably 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 fascinating posts and hyperlinks being shared throughout the social community. It additionally helps commenting and notifications.
BlueFacts — Bluesky Traits & Insights
BlueFacts‘ app offers a way to discover interesting people and trends on Bluesky, as well as other user rankings, growth statistics, content rankings, feed tools, and more. The app could be helpful in particular for social media managers looking for a better understanding of what’s and who’re standard on Bluesky, or anybody else looking for partaking accounts to comply with.
Different Bluesky shoppers
Skeets
Additionally by Vogelsang, Skeets is an alternative choice to Bluesky’s principal 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 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 another 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 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.
Enhance Blue
Enhance Blue is one other Bluesky shopper that focuses on options that Bluesky itself has thus far neglected. This contains issues like help for drafts and bookmarks, a approach to keep away from seeing spoilers, a approach to mute reposts from specific customers, and a approach to protect your studying place so you’ll be able to decide up the place you left off within the Following feed. Plus, you’ll be able to add clickable hyperlinks to your publish’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 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 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, neighborhood teams, and others, and schedule and handle occasions. Guests can use the positioning 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 allows you to use your ATProto account to log in, then write in Markdown. The service contains instruments for importing photographs, previewing your publish, and extra, with every thing saved in your account’s PDS (private information service). While you publish on Bluesky, these replies are included in your weblog routinely.
Analytics
BlueSkyHunter
Largely a development and analytics toolset for Bluesky, BlueSkyHunter additionally gives a approach to faucet into tendencies on the social community. One part within the app known as Viral Posts showcases the extra standard posts. This might assist content material planners decide up on tendencies and memes or discover templates which might be standard with different customers that they may undertake.
Fedica
Fedica gives an internet 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 quite a lot of options for social listening, instruments for monitoring hashtags, key phrases, and publish 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 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 modify apps consistently to maintain up with associates on a number of networks. As a substitute, you’ll be able to browse all their updates in a mixed timeline.
Croissant
Croissant’s easy cross-posting app for iOS gives a approach 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 gives a cross-posting function the place posts may be scheduled or posted dwell.
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’ll be able to overview books, films, and TV reveals, with plans so as to add help for reviewing papers and URLs sooner or later. Not like conventional overview platforms, the info you share on Skylights is yours, not “locked into a silo,” the web site notes.
Popsky
Nonetheless in open beta on iOS, Popsky is designed to be a spot the place you’ll be able to uncover and focus on your favourite TV reveals, films, books, and video video games. Additionally constructed on the AT Protocol, you’ll be able to 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 gear. The service’s internet 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 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, just like these on gaming platforms like Roblox.
Utilities
Cred.blue
Cred.blue’s service provides you a simple approach to generate a “score” 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 aim is to assist customers perceive extra concerning the individuals they comply with and whether or not their account is wholesome and energetic. The scoring takes under consideration a person’s public information, like their posts’ content material, likes, social graph, and extra, in addition to their involvement with the bigger ATProto ecosystem. Customers may 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 — which means subjects you don’t wish to see as a part of the Bluesky expertise — in a single handy dashboard. Right here, you’ll be able to management whether or not or not you wish to see issues like political discourse, social points, world affairs, faith, healthcare, and others when looking the Bluesky social community. You’ll be able to much more narrowly dig into area of interest subjects inside classes to specify which subtopics needs to be muted.
Listifications
This utility is just an account you comply with 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 could possibly assist people who find themselves making an attempt 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 hold observe of your individual reputation and stats on Bluesky by providing a dashboard the place you’ll be able to 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 comply with or unfollow.
Different apps
Woosh
A mission constructed by the crew 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 may embody every thing from their open social profiles on Bluesky to these on bigger platforms like TikTok. Nevertheless, all the info created on Woosh is saved to your Bluesky or AT Protocol person account, which implies you might publish your individual App View to render your web page the best way you need, or use different companies 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 subjects like information, know-how, gaming, films, books, and extra. It’s also possible to observe “trending” conversations happening throughout Bluesky from AzSky, that are these discussions which have lots of (and even 1000’s) of feedback.
Flushes
This foolish social app, Flushes, allows you to publish a “flush” while you’re within the rest room, which is printed on AT Proto. Why a decentralized rest room 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 publish your solutions to Bluesky in your followers to see. The system is protected towards 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 enable customers to edit their profiles, including music and pursuits, and hold observe of their on-line associates.
This was initially printed on March 30, 2025, and was final up to date on June 13, 2025.
