A 12 months in the past, Bluesky was opening up to the public and was often called one of many many X competitors 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 purposes designed to work collectively as a part of an open social net.
The builders behind many of those apps attended the first conference dedicated to the AT Protocol, ATmosphere, held in Seattle in late March 2025. There, they discovered what’s forward for ATProto, what challenges nonetheless should be overcome, and what different issues they’ll want to consider as they construct for this new social app ecosystem. Others attended on-line, watched the talks and 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 Web 2.0, an earlier model of the social net that included social media web sites, blogs, wikis, video- and photo-sharing websites, and different collaborative and hosted companies. This time round, the apps are being constructed on open expertise, not siloed into centralized companies that are usually operated by tech giants.
Bluesky was the primary of those companies to emerge, but when the open social net motion has any endurance, it gained’t be the final.
Beneath 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.
This can be a work in progress! Apps are nonetheless being added. Feeling not noted? E mail sarahp@techcrunch.com. (Word that this checklist is concentrated on consumer-facing apps folks 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 traditional Instagram expertise. Customers can add as much as 4 photographs or movies of as much as 3 minutes in size, up from 1 minute beforehand, thanks to an update Bluesky released. The app affords 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, 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 resembling likes, follows, feedback, and profile pages. Customers can comply with the app’s lively improvement on its co-founder’s TikTok page because the staff 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 on the market on each iOS and Android and can focus primarily on photo-sharing, like traditional Instagram did. The app affords 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 may give attention to movies posted to the Bluesky social community.
Movies for Bluesky
The generically named Videos for Bluesky is one other app constructed on prime of Bluesky from “MszPro,” aka Hoshida Takiyoshi, an indie Japanese developer. Like others, Movies for Bluesky enables 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 obtainable on TestFlight beta testing.
Omni
Omni affords 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 at present in beta testing.
Livestreaming
Streamplace
Streamplace is the primary livestreaming video service constructed on prime of the AT Protocol. The service, which was lately used to livestream the ATmosphere convention in Seattle, affords a well-recognized 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 tasks. That allowed him to get Streamplace off the bottom. Now he sees potential in constructing out a expertise that would attraction to creators like Twitch streamers, who would quite join immediately 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 lets you easily build, customise, publish, and handle Bluesky feeds and, finally, 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, enables 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 may combine in information articles, weblog posts, podcasts, and YouTube feeds into the customized feeds you construct in Surf, alongside social posts. You possibly can then use Surf to browse your feeds and others from the neighborhood throughout a spread of matters and pursuits. Surf remains to be in personal beta testing, however a signup list is on the market.
SkyFeed
An online-based, TweetDeck-like shopper for Bluesky, SkyFeed enables you to create a dashboard of your feeds and profiles. Nevertheless, most of its customers come to SkyFeed as a result of it additionally affords a straightforward approach 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 cellphone messages, like Sign, however to construct a social platform the place you would uncover and join with others for any purpose: market exchanges, courting, social networking, and extra. Nevertheless, it will be one the place you have been accountable for the information you have been sharing and will cease that sharing at any time.
At present an end-to-end encrypted messenger you could obtain from the App Retailer, Germ enables 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 expertise. 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 staff is now engaged on a Bluesky integration that will enable customers to speak securely with their Bluesky pals.
Roomy
A peer-to-peer messaging app constructed on the AT Protocol, Roomy is comparable in some methods to Discord however faucets into open requirements. As an example, ATProto is used for social discovery, whereas Automerge is used for peer-to-peer discovery. The app is backed by funding from Skyseed and is at present in alpha testing.
You possibly can log into Roomy along 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 remember. Plus, some non-encrypted metadata exhibits 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 developments
Dazzle.fm
Based by former Stability AI engineers John Sabath and Conner Ruhl, Dazzle affords a web site that is smart of the firehose of knowledge from Bluesky and organizes it into classes, highlighting the developments throughout varied matters. Whereas a lot of the early dialogue on Bluesky at the moment leans political, Dazzle’s web site can assist you discover different matters and conversations happening.
Dazzle enables 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 would use Dazzle to point out you native information, however not nationwide politics, or you would hold your expertise targeted solely on those that are posting with a constructive sentiment.
The concept is that you simply’ll be capable of change between these completely different modes, generated utilizing AI expertise, with out truly having to construct customized feeds. As an alternative, you may simply kind in what you wish to see (or not see) right into a chat-like interface, then have Dazzle reconfigure itself to give you posts that match no matter “vibe” you had simply requested.
Sill
Hyperlink aggregation service Sill enables 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 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 companies and the ensuing conversations.
Frontpage
A decentralized and federated hyperlink aggregator constructed on ATProto, Frontpage affords 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 Traits & Insights
BlueFacts‘ app affords a approach to uncover attention-grabbing folks and developments on Bluesky, in addition to different consumer rankings, progress statistics, content material rankings, feed instruments, and extra. The app could possibly be useful specifically for social media managers searching for a greater understanding of what’s and who’re fashionable on Bluesky, or anybody else looking for partaking accounts to comply with.
Different Bluesky shoppers
Skeets
Additionally by Vogelsang, Skeets is a substitute for Bluesky’s primary app that’s optimized for accessibility and works properly on each iPhone and iPad.
Deck.blue
One other TweetDeck-style web app, Deck.blue enables you to fill your display screen 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 affords an alternate shopper 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 principle 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 affords a primary set of options, however is constant to evolve.
Skywalker
The Skywalker app brings a third-party Bluesky expertise to Android customers, which provides a handful of in-demand options like bookmarks and saving drafts.
Increase Blue
Boost Blue is one other Bluesky shopper that focuses on options that Bluesky itself has to this point ignored. This consists of issues like assist 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 may choose up the place you left off within the Following feed. Plus, you may add clickable hyperlinks to your publish’s textual content. The app is on the market as a free obtain on iOS and Android.
Occasions
Smoke Sign
An occasion and RSVP administration system, Smoke Signal is the Bluesky different to one thing like Eventbrite or Fb Occasions. Constructed on prime of ATProto, Smoke Sign helps OAuth, permitting customers to find communities and create and RSVP to occasions whereas additionally protecting maintain of their very own private information.
OpenMeet
An ATProto-based different to Meetup.com, OpenMeet is an open supply platform that enables folks to create curiosity teams, skilled networking teams, neighborhood 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 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 enables you to use your ATProto account to log in, then write in Markdown. The service consists of instruments for importing pictures, previewing your publish, and extra, with all the things 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 growth and analytics toolset for Bluesky, BlueSkyHunter additionally affords a approach to faucet into developments on the social community. One part within the app known as Viral Posts showcases the extra fashionable posts. This might assist content material planners choose up on developments and memes or discover templates which might be fashionable with different customers that they may undertake.
Fedica
Fedica affords 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 net, as you don’t have to modify apps continuously to maintain up with pals on a number of networks. As an alternative, you may browse all their updates in a mixed timeline.
Croissant
Croissant’s easy cross-posting app for iOS affords a approach to reach users on Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads from one place. The app helps including issues like pictures, alt textual content, hashtags, threaded posts, and different service-specific options. Croissant is on the market 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 beneath the analytics part, Fedica affords a cross-posting function the place posts might 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 may overview books, motion pictures, and TV exhibits, with plans so as to add assist for reviewing papers and URLs sooner or later. Not like conventional overview platforms, the information you share on Skylights is yours, not “locked right into a silo,” the web site notes.
Popsky
Nonetheless in open beta on iOS, Popsky is designed to be a spot the place you may uncover and talk about your favourite TV exhibits, motion pictures, books, and video video games. Additionally constructed on the AT Protocol, you may mark gadgets 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 net. Just like Final.fm, Rocksky enables 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 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 enables you to work together with different artists by internet hosting your personal on-line artwork gallery. The present app enables you to host as much as 32 gamers who can log in and look at your artwork in a museum-like expertise, much like these on gaming platforms like Roblox.
Utilities
Cred.blue
Cred.blue’s service provides you a straightforward approach 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 net, Cred.blue’s objective is to assist customers perceive extra in regards to the folks they comply with 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 can even see the place they rank on a Leaderboard that spans Bluesky on the AT Protocol community.
Mutesky
The service supplied by Mutesky enables 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 may 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 possibly can much more narrowly dig into area of interest matters inside classes to specify which subtopics ought to be muted.
Listifications
This utility is solely 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 checklist, or if somebody blocks your account immediately. It could possibly assist people who find themselves making an attempt to develop their following — and even simply those that wish to know what folks consider them!
Bluesky Tracker – Supervisor
This app for each iOS and Android enables you to hold observe of your personal reputation and stats on Bluesky by providing a dashboard the place you may view real-time followers and unfollowers statistics, and different metrics. The app can 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 venture constructed by the staff 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 might embrace all the things 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 would publish your personal 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 have interaction in discussions with others who share their pursuits throughout matters like information, expertise, gaming, motion pictures, 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 hundreds) of feedback.
Flushes
This foolish social app, Flushes, enables 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
Just like apps like NGL for Instagram, this new app enables you to join along with your Bluesky account and create an inbox the place customers can ask you nameless questions. You possibly can then publish your solutions to Bluesky to your followers to see. The system is protected towards spam by Anubis’s bot detection service and affords its source code on GitHub.
SkySpace
Nonetheless a work-in-progress, SkySpace is constructing a customizable social app for utilizing Bluesky that’s meant to resemble MySpace. The app will enable customers to edit their profiles, including music and pursuits, and hold observe of their on-line pals.
This was initially printed on March 30, 2025, and was final up to date on June 13, 2025.