A 12 months in the past, Bluesky was opening as much as the general public and was often known as one of many many X rivals that emerged after Elon Musk acquired the community previously often known as Twitter. Right now, Bluesky’s social community has grown to over 36.5 million customers, whereas the know-how it’s constructed upon — the AT Protocol (or ATProto for brief) — is getting used to develop dozens extra functions 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 have to 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 neighborhood members.
The ATProto neighborhood is working to rebuild a lot of what was 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.
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 growth 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 [email protected]. (Observe that this listing is targeted on consumer-facing apps folks can use now, not small initiatives or dev instruments.)
Photograph and video-sharing apps
Flashes
Flashes is an Instagram various primarily based 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 images or movies of as much as 3 minutes in size, up from 1 minute beforehand, thanks to 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 enables 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 high of Bluesky, providing options similar to likes, follows, feedback, and profile pages. Customers can observe the app’s energetic growth on its co-founder’s TikTok web page because the workforce provides extra options, together with video assist.
The app is in testing on iOS and Android.
Pinksky
Pinksky is one other certainly one of many apps attempting to construct an alternative choice to Instagram utilizing ATProto. Constructed by developer Ramon Souza, the app is accessible on each iOS and Android and can focus primarily on photo-sharing, like basic Instagram did. The app provides comparable options to Instagram, together with consumer profiles, a feed of images and movies, and a Tales part the place posts stay seen for twenty-four hours.
Bluescreen (TikTok various)
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 high of Bluesky from “MszPro,” aka Hoshida Takiyoshi, an indie Japanese developer. Like others, Movies for Bluesky permits you to browse movies posted to the Bluesky social community by vertically scrolling in a TikTok-like 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 at present accessible on TestFlight beta testing.
Omni
Omni provides a Bluesky consumer for iOS designed for sharing short-form movies. The app additionally consists of AI-powered content material planning and e-commerce integration. The app is at present in beta testing.
Livestreaming
Streamplace
Streamplace is the primary livestreaming video service constructed on high of the AT Protocol. The service, which was just lately used to livestream the ATmosphere convention in Seattle, provides a well-known streaming expertise with assist for high-quality movies, livestreaming, clips, and uploads. All of the video content material can be cryptographically signed by creators and respects their consent preferences. It’s constructed on the identical public key infrastructure as decentralized social networks.
Based by Eli Mallon, Streamplace was initially backed by his earlier employer, Livepeer (one other decentralized video platform), which operated a crypto treasury the place funds are invested into different initiatives. That allowed him to get Streamplace off the bottom. Now he sees potential in constructing out a know-how that would enchantment to creators like Twitch streamers, who would fairly join immediately with followers by 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 allows 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, permits you to construct your personal customized feeds from throughout the open internet, together with not solely Bluesky but in addition 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’ll be able to then use Surf to browse your feeds and others from the neighborhood throughout a variety of matters and pursuits. Surf continues to be in personal beta testing, however a signup listing is accessible.
SkyFeed
An online-based, TweetDeck-like consumer for Bluesky, SkyFeed permits you to create a dashboard of your feeds and profiles. Nevertheless, most of its customers come to SkyFeed as a result of it additionally provides a straightforward method for even non-developers to construct customized feeds primarily based 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 would uncover and join with others for any motive: market exchanges, relationship, social networking, and extra. Nevertheless, it might be one the place you have been accountable for the information you have been sharing and will cease that sharing at any time.
At the moment an end-to-end encrypted messenger that you would be able to obtain from the App Retailer, Germ permits you to construct and share a number of identities. Plus, you can begin chatting with somebody on Germ even when they don’t have the app put in, due to its use of Apple’s App Clips know-how. This lets you have a light-weight app expertise in your iPhone earlier than you obtain the 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 workforce is now engaged on a Bluesky integration that may enable customers to talk securely with their Bluesky pals.
Roomy
A peer-to-peer messaging app constructed on the AT Protocol, Roomy is analogous in some methods to Discord however faucets into open requirements. As an example, ATProto is used for social discovery, whereas Automerge is used for peer-to-peer discovery. The app is backed by funding from Skyseed and is at present in alpha testing.
You’ll be able to log into Roomy together with your Bluesky account and direct message different customers to have interaction in chats. The messages are encrypted, however that is an experimental venture and never audited, so bear in mind. 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 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 can assist you discover different matters and conversations happening.
Dazzle permits you to give it directions to tune the positioning to your personal pursuits, too. You could possibly ask it to point out you a subject however with none posts that includes political discussions, for instance. Meaning you would use Dazzle to point out you native information, however not nationwide politics, or you would hold your expertise centered solely on those that are posting with a constructive sentiment.
The concept is that you simply’ll be capable to swap between these completely different modes, generated utilizing AI know-how, with out truly having to construct customized feeds. As an alternative, you possibly can 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 permits you to sustain with what everybody’s speaking about on various 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 monitor of what everybody on Twitter was speaking about, studying, and resharing that day.
Sill can be among the many early adopters utilizing Bluesky’s OAuth for the AT Protocol as an alternative 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 fascinating posts and hyperlinks being shared throughout the social community. It additionally helps commenting and notifications.
BlueFacts — Bluesky Tendencies & Insights
BlueFacts‘ app provides a option to uncover fascinating folks and tendencies on Bluesky, in addition to different consumer rankings, progress statistics, content material rankings, feed instruments, and extra. The app may very well be useful specifically for social media managers in search of a greater understanding of what’s and who’re widespread on Bluesky, or anybody else looking for partaking accounts to observe.
Various Bluesky shoppers
Skeets
Additionally by Vogelsang, Skeets is an alternative choice to Bluesky’s most important app that’s optimized for accessibility and works properly on each iPhone and iPad.
Deck.blue
One other TweetDeck-style internet app, Deck.blue permits you to fill your display with columns that includes your 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 assist for different platforms nonetheless within the works. The app is designed to supply among the options the primary Bluesky app doesn’t have, most notably: Bookmarks and assist for Drafts. The app is subscription-based at 99 cents/month, $9.99/12 months, or $24.99 as a one-time buy.
Beeskie
Constructed completely for Home windows customers, Beeskie is a free and open supply app that’s been constructed to match the Home windows design language. The app is at present in beta and provides a fundamental 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 consumer that focuses on options that Bluesky itself has to date ignored. This consists of issues like assist 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 possibly can choose up the place you left off within the Following feed. Plus, you possibly can add clickable hyperlinks to your publish’s textual content. The app is accessible as a free obtain on iOS and Android.
Occasions
Smoke Sign
An occasion and RSVP administration system, Smoke Sign is the Bluesky various 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 protecting maintain of their very own private information.
OpenMeet
An ATProto-based various to Meetup.com, OpenMeet is an open supply platform that permits folks 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 consumer 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 permits you to use your ATProto account to log in, then write in Markdown. The service consists of instruments for importing photos, previewing your publish, and extra, with every thing saved in your account’s PDS (private information service). Once you publish on Bluesky, these replies are included in your weblog routinely.
Analytics
BlueSkyHunter
Largely a progress and analytics toolset for Bluesky, BlueSkyHunter additionally provides a option to faucet into tendencies on the social community. One part within the app referred to as Viral Posts showcases the extra widespread posts. This might assist content material planners choose up on tendencies and memes or discover templates which are widespread with different customers that they may undertake.
Fedica
Fedica provides a web based dashboard that permits you to 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 permits you to cross-post to a number of social networks directly, together with Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and Threads. The app — backed by Czech Founders VC and Automattic — is designed to be an easy-to-use gateway to the open social internet, as you don’t have to change apps consistently to maintain up with pals on a number of networks. As an alternative, you possibly can browse all their updates in a mixed timeline.
Croissant
Croissant’s easy cross-posting app for iOS provides a option to attain customers on Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads from one place. The app helps including issues like photos, alt textual content, hashtags, threaded posts, and different service-specific options. Croissant is accessible as a subscription at $2.99/month or $19.99/12 months or as a one-time buy of $59.99.
Fedica
Additionally listed above underneath the analytics part, Fedica provides a cross-posting function the place posts could be scheduled or posted dwell.
Social critiques
Skylights
To not be confused with the video app Skylight above, Skylights is a public critiques platform constructed on AT Proto the place you possibly can overview books, films, and TV reveals, with plans so as to add assist 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 possibly can uncover and talk about your favourite TV reveals, films, 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 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 internet. Much like Final.fm, Rocksky permits you to “scribble” your listening exercise, monitor 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 cellular and desktop, and consists of options like multi-guest streaming, streaming karaoke, background music and sound results, visible results, and different superior options.
Video games/experiences
Twigbit Video games’ SkyMuseum
Constructed on Bluesky, SkyMuseum permits you to work together with different artists by internet hosting your personal on-line artwork gallery. The present app permits you to host as much as 32 gamers who can log in and think about your artwork in a museum-like expertise, much like these on gaming platforms like Roblox.
Utilities
Cred.blue
Cred.blue’s service offers you a straightforward option to generate a “rating” primarily based 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 internet, Cred.blue’s objective is to assist customers perceive extra in regards to the folks they observe and whether or not their account is wholesome and energetic. 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 permits 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’ll be able to much more narrowly dig into area of interest matters inside classes to specify which subtopics ought 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 listing, or if somebody blocks your account immediately. It could possibly assist people who find themselves attempting 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 permits you to hold monitor of your personal reputation and stats on Bluesky by providing a dashboard the place you possibly can view real-time followers and unfollowers statistics, and different metrics. The app can monitor your posts and stats, present you who’s blocking you, monitor your lokes, and allow you to bulk observe or unfollow.
Different apps
Woosh
A venture constructed by the workforce at Federation Studio, Whoosh is constructing the Linktree for the open social internet. The service permits customers to share and showcase their on-line presence in a single place, which might embrace 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 implies you would 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 various to a dialogue discussion board website like Reddit, AzSky is powered by Bluesky. Customers can be a 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 may as well monitor “trending” conversations happening throughout Bluesky from AzSky, that are these discussions which have tons of (and even 1000’s) of feedback.
Flushes
This foolish social app, Flushes, permits you to publish a “flush” if 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 permits you to join together 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 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 monitor of their on-line pals.
This was initially printed on March 30, 2025, and was final up to date on June 13, 2025.
