A yr in the past, Bluesky was opening as much as the general public and was referred to as one of many many X opponents that emerged after Elon Musk acquired the community previously referred to as Twitter. Immediately, 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 internet.
The builders behind many of those apps attended the primary convention devoted to the AT Protocol, ATmosphere, held in Seattle in late March 2025. There, they realized what’s forward for ATProto, what challenges nonetheless 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 companies. This time round, the apps are being constructed on open expertise, 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.
Beneath is a listing of AT Protocol-based, consumer-facing apps which can be both constructed on high of Bluesky or its underlying protocol, permitting customers to take again management over their social networking experiences and private knowledge. Many of those are nonetheless in early growth 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 neglected? Electronic mail sarahp@techcrunch.com. (Be aware that this listing is concentrated on consumer-facing apps individuals can use now, not small initiatives or dev instruments.)
Picture and video-sharing apps
Flashes
Picture Credit:Flashes
Flashes is an Instagram different based mostly 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 pictures or movies of as much as 3 minutes in size, up from 1 minute beforehand, due to an replace Bluesky launched. The app presents photograph filters, curated feeds from artists, customized feeds, and a Portfolio Mode the place photographers can showcase their work.
Spark
Picture Credit:Reelo
Spark (initially known 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 function 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 akin to likes, follows, feedback, and profile pages. Customers can observe the app’s lively growth on its co-founder’s TikTok web page because the workforce provides extra options, together with video help.
The app is in testing on iOS and Android.
Picture Credit:Skylight Social
Pinksky
Pinksky is one other one in every of many apps attempting to construct a substitute for 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 presents comparable options to Instagram, together with consumer profiles, a feed of pictures and movies, and a Tales part the place posts stay seen for twenty-four hours.
Picture Credit:Pinksky
Bluescreen (TikTok different)
Bluescreen, additionally constructed by Vogelsang, is an upcoming app that can give attention to 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, help for customized feeds, bookmarks, reposts, and extra. The app is presently out there on TestFlight beta testing.
Skyswipe Beta is reside!Skyswipe is a TikTok-style video app for Bluesky with a modern, gesture-first interface powered by clear, user-selectable ATProto feeds.👉 Be a part of the iOS TestFlight:testflight.apple.com/be part of/QbKx1amM#VideoSky #SkyTok #BlueSkyApps
— Skyswipe (@skyswipe.bsky.social) 2025-05-23T00:38:58.388Z
Omni
Omni presents 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 presently in beta testing.
Livestreaming
Streamplace
Picture Credit:Streamplace
Streamplace is the primary livestreaming video service constructed on high of the AT Protocol. The service, which was lately used to livestream the ATmosphere convention in Seattle, presents 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 attraction to creators like Twitch streamers, who would moderately 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 permits you to simply construct, customise, publish, and handle Bluesky feeds and, ultimately, monetize them with advertisements, sponsored posts, and subscriptions. The service is working with the Bluesky firehose, aka the Jetstream, which incorporates all the general public posts on the social community.
Surf
Picture Credit:Flipboard/Surf
Flipboard’s latest app, Surf, permits you to construct your individual customized feeds from throughout the open internet, together with not solely Bluesky but additionally 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 listing is offered.
SkyFeed
An internet-based, TweetDeck-like consumer for Bluesky, SkyFeed permits you to create a dashboard of your feeds and profiles. Nonetheless, most of its customers come to SkyFeed as a result of it additionally presents a simple method for even non-developers to construct customized feeds based mostly on lists or regexes.
Communication / social discovery
Germ
Picture Credit:Germ
Germ’s massive thought is not only to supply a substitute for your cellphone messages, like Sign, however to construct a social platform the place you may uncover and join with others for any cause: market exchanges, relationship, social networking, and extra. Nonetheless, it could be one the place you had been answerable for the info you had been sharing and will cease that sharing at any time.
At present an end-to-end encrypted messenger that you could 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 expertise. This lets you have a light-weight app expertise in your iPhone earlier than you obtain the total software 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 permit customers to talk securely with their Bluesky mates.
Roomy
Picture Credit: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’ll be able to log into Roomy together with your Bluesky account and direct message different customers to interact in chats. The messages are encrypted, however that is an experimental mission and never audited, so bear in mind. Plus, some non-encrypted metadata exhibits who you had been speaking to however not the contents of these messages. (In different phrases, don’t swap out Sign for Roomy but.)
Social developments
Dazzle.fm
Picture Credit:Dazzle.fm
Based by former Stability AI engineers John Sabath and Conner Ruhl, Dazzle presents an internet site that is smart of the firehose of knowledge from Bluesky and organizes it into classes, highlighting the developments throughout varied subjects. Whereas a lot of the early dialogue on Bluesky at the moment leans political, Dazzle’s website can assist you discover different subjects and conversations going down.
Dazzle permits you to give it directions to tune the location to your individual pursuits, too. You may ask it to point out you a subject however with none posts that includes political discussions, for instance. Which means you may use Dazzle to point out you native information, however not nationwide politics, or you may hold your expertise centered solely on those that are posting with a optimistic sentiment.
The concept is that you simply’ll be capable to swap between these totally different modes, generated utilizing AI expertise, with out truly having to construct customized feeds. As an alternative, you’ll be able to 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
Picture Credit:Sill
Hyperlink aggregation service Sill permits 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. Well-liked 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 linked, you’ll see probably the most shared hyperlinks throughout your companies and the ensuing conversations.
Frontpage
Picture Credit:Frontpage.fyi
A decentralized and federated hyperlink aggregator constructed on ATProto, Frontpage presents a easy interface for organizing and upvoting attention-grabbing posts and hyperlinks being shared throughout the social community. It additionally helps commenting and notifications.
BlueFacts — Bluesky Tendencies & Insights
BlueFacts‘ app presents a solution to uncover attention-grabbing individuals and developments on Bluesky, in addition to different consumer rankings, development statistics, content material rankings, feed instruments, and extra. The app could possibly be useful particularly for social media managers in search of a greater understanding of what’s and who’re in style on Bluesky, or anybody else looking for participating accounts to observe.
Different Bluesky purchasers
Skeets
Additionally by Vogelsang, Skeets is a substitute for Bluesky’s primary app that’s optimized for accessibility and works effectively on each iPhone and iPad.
Deck.blue
Picture Credit:deck.blue screenshot
One other TweetDeck-style internet app, Deck.blue permits 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 presents an alternate consumer 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
ScreenshotImage Credit: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 presently in beta and presents a primary set of options, however is continuous to evolve.
Skywalker
Picture Credit: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
ScreenshotImage Credit:Increase Blue
Increase Blue is one other Bluesky consumer that focuses on options that Bluesky itself has to date missed. This consists of issues like help for drafts and bookmarks, a solution to keep away from seeing spoilers, a solution to mute reposts from specific customers, and a solution 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 high of ATProto, Smoke Sign helps OAuth, permitting customers to find communities and create and RSVP to occasions whereas additionally holding maintain of their very own private knowledge.
Picture Credit:Smoke Sign
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 location to seek 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.
ScreenshotImage Credit:OpenMeet
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 knowledge service). While you publish on Bluesky, these replies are included in your weblog mechanically.
Picture Credit:White Wind
Analytics
BlueSkyHunter
Largely a development and analytics toolset for Bluesky, BlueSkyHunter additionally presents a solution to faucet into developments on the social community. One part within the app known as Viral Posts showcases the extra in style posts. This might assist content material planners decide up on developments and memes or discover templates which can be in style with different customers that they might undertake.
Fedica
Fedica presents 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 a wide range of options for social listening, instruments for monitoring hashtags, key phrases, and publish attain, in addition to these for follower evaluation.
Cross-posting
OpenVibe
Picture Credit:Openvibe
Openvibe’s app permits you to cross-post to a number of social networks without delay, together with Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and Threads. The app — backed by Czech Founders VC and Automattic — is designed to be an easy-to-use gateway to the open social internet, as you don’t have to modify apps always to maintain up with mates on a number of networks. As an alternative, you’ll be able to browse all their updates in a mixed timeline.
Croissant
Picture Credit:Croissant
Croissant’s easy cross-posting app for iOS presents a solution 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 offered as a subscription at $2.99/month or $19.99/yr or as a one-time buy of $59.99.
Fedica
Screenshot
Additionally listed above underneath the analytics part, Fedica presents a cross-posting function the place posts will be scheduled or posted reside.
Social critiques
Skylights
ScreenshotImage Credit:Skylights
To not be confused with the video app Skylight above, Skylights is a public critiques platform constructed on AT Proto the place you’ll be able to assessment books, films, and TV exhibits, with plans so as to add help for reviewing papers and URLs sooner or later. Not like conventional assessment platforms, the info 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’ll be able to uncover and focus on your favourite TV exhibits, 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 knowledge 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. Just like Final.fm, Rocksky permits you to “scribble” your listening exercise, observe your stats, discover music, and share your musical style, with out your knowledge being tied to a single platform. The service additionally plans to be open-sourced sooner or later.
ScreenshotImage Credit:Rocksky
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 consists of options like multi-guest streaming, streaming karaoke, background music and sound results, visible results, and different superior options.
Picture Credit:Bluecast
Video games/experiences
Twigbit Video games’ SkyMuseum
Picture Credit:Twigbit Video games/SkyMuseum
Constructed on Bluesky, SkyMuseum permits you to work together with different artists by internet hosting your individual 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, just like these on gaming platforms like Roblox.
Utilities
Cred.blue
Cred.blue’s service provides you a simple solution to generate a “rating” based mostly on a consumer’s identification 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 objective 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 knowledge, like their posts’ content material, likes, social graph, and extra, in addition to their involvement with the bigger ATProto ecosystem. Customers may also see the place they rank on a Leaderboard that spans Bluesky on the AT Protocol community.
Picture Credit:Cred.blue
Mutesky
The service supplied by Mutesky permits you to bulk handle Bluesky mutes — that 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 searching the Bluesky social community. You’ll be able to much more narrowly dig into area of interest subjects inside classes to specify which subtopics ought to be muted.
Picture Credit:Mutesky
Listifications
This utility is just 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 listing, or if somebody blocks your account immediately. It might probably 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
ScreenshotImage Credit:Bluesky Tracker
This app for each iOS and Android permits 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 observe or unfollow.
Different apps
Woosh
A mission 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 embody every thing from their open social profiles on Bluesky to these on bigger platforms like TikTok. Nonetheless, all the info created on Woosh is saved to your Bluesky or AT Protocol consumer account, which implies you may publish your individual App View to render your web page the way in which you need, or use different companies to take action sooner or later.
Picture Credit:Woosh
AzSky
An open social different to a dialogue discussion board website like Reddit, AzSky is powered by Bluesky. Customers can be part of communities and have interaction in discussions with others who share their pursuits throughout subjects like information, expertise, gaming, films, books, and extra. You can too observe “trending” conversations going down throughout Bluesky from AzSky, that are these discussions which have lots of (and even 1000’s) of feedback.
Picture Credit:AzSky
Flushes
This foolish social app, Flushes, permits you to publish a “flush” whenever you’re within the toilet, which is revealed on AT Proto. Why a decentralized toilet app? Why not!
Navyfragen — Nameless Inbox
Just like apps like NGL for Instagram, this new app permits you to enroll 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 on your followers to see. The system is protected in opposition to spam by Anubis’s bot detection service and presents its supply code on GitHub.
SkySpace
ScreenshotImage Credit: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 permit customers to edit their profiles, including music and pursuits, and hold observe of their on-line mates.
This was initially revealed on March 30, 2025, and was final up to date on June 13, 2025.
