# Awesome distributed, decentralized, p2p apps or tools [](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)
**Note**: Links marked with "☠️ " are old and probably no longer maintained.
### Applications
* [Aether](https://github.com/aethereans/aether-app): P2P ephemeral public communities. Open source, self-governing
* [Airshare](https://github.com/KuroLabs/Airshare): CLI tool and module for transfering data between 2 machines in a local network, P2P, using Multicast-DNS. Works completely offline.
communities with auditable moderation and mod elections.
* [Agregore](https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-browser): A minimalistic web browser that supports multiple peer to peer protocols and is extensible with standard WebExtensions.
* [airpaste ☠️](https://github.com/mafintosh/airpaste): A 1-1 network pipe that auto discovers other peers using mdns. Can send text, or files.
* [AKASHA](https://akasha.world): A Next-Generation Social Media Network. Powered by the Ethereum world computer. Embedded into the Inter-Planetary File System.
* [Beaker](https://beakerbrowser.com): Experimental browser. It adds new technologies for Peer-to-Peer applications while staying compatible with the rest of the Web.
* [Berty](https://github.com/berty/berty): secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network.
* [Bitmessage](https://bitmessage.org): P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers.
* [Cabal](https://github.com/cabal-club/cabal-desktop): P2P community offline-first chat platform.
* [CacheP2P](https://github.com/guerrerocarlos/CacheP2P): highly distributed cache platform based on WebTorrent and runs only in the browser.
* [Cactus Comments](https://cactus.chat/): Federated comment system for the open web built on Matrix.
* [croc](https://github.com/schollz/croc): Easily and securely send files and folders from one computer to another in command line.
* [Cryptor](https://github.com/cpl/cryptor): Overlay P2P network that values your privacy and anonymity above all else. Packages and some clients included.
* [Dat desktop app](https://github.com/datproject/dat-desktop): Decentralized data tool for distributing data small and large.
* [Demonsaw](https://www.demonsaw.com): Secure and anonymous information sharing application that makes security simple and gives you back control of your data.
* [Diaspora](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora): A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network. Main pod is at [Diasp.eu](https://diasp.eu).
* [Dropub ☠️](https://dropub.com): Share files for free on the internet. It's like Dropbox meets BitTorrent.
* [Ferment ☠️](https://github.com/mmckegg/ferment): P2P audio publishing and streaming application. Like SoundCloud but decentralized. Built using SSB + Webtorrent.
* [FilePizza](https://github.com/kern/filepizza): Free peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser.
* [Friendica](https://github.com/friendica/friendica): Decentralised communications platform that integrates social communication. Connect effortlessly to a federated communications network of several thousand servers, with more than half a million users. Directly connect to anyone on Friendica, Mastodon, Diaspora, GnuSocial, Pleroma, or Hubzilla, regardless where each user profile is hosted.
* [Friends ☠️](https://github.com/moose-team/friends): P2P chat powered by the web. This project is alpha quality.
* [Hardbin](https://github.com/jes/hardbin): Encrypted pastebin using IPFS.
* [Handshake](https://handshake.org): Decentralized, permissionless naming protocol compatible with DNS where every peer is validating and in charge of managing the root zone with the goal of creating an alternative to existing Certificate Authorities.
* [Hubzilla ☠️](https://github.com/redmatrix/hubzilla): General purpose communication server integrated with a web publishing system and a decentralised permission system. Social network bits, some cloud storage bits, some blog and forum bits, and some content management bits. These are all integrated within a common privacy framework - and it is all decentralised.
* [Hyperpad](https://github.com/hackergrrl/hyperpad): Peer-to-peer collaborative text editor.
* [Element (formerly Riot)](https://element.io): Collaboration client for the web. Chat, VOIP video, file transfer, end-to-end crypto.
* [I2P](https://geti2p.net): Anonymous network, exposing a simple layer that applications can use to anonymously and securely send messages to each other.
* [instant.io](https://github.com/webtorrent/instant.io): Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent (torrents on the web).
* [IPFS bin ☠️](https://github.com/victorb/ipfsbin): Pastebin application for sharing code and text documents to other people.
* [IPFS Desktop](https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-desktop): A native application to run your own IPFS Node.
* [iWant ☠️](https://github.com/nirvik/iWant): Commandline tool for searching and downloading files in LAN network, without any central server.
* [Jami](https://jami.net/): Free and universal communication platform which preserves the user's privacy and freedoms. Desktop and mobile apps for text messaging, video and audio calls, file transfer, video conferencing.
* [LCVPN](https://github.com/kanocz/lcvpn): Light decentralized VPN in golang.
* [LF](https://github.com/zerotier/lf): Fully decentralized fully replicated key/value store. Fully decentralized means anyone can run a node without obtaining special permission and all nodes are effectively equal. Fully replicated means every node stores all data.
* [MaidSafe](https://maidsafe.net): Decentralized internet and app infrastructure which rewards users for participating in the network.
* [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org): Social networking, back in your hands. Follow friends, discover new ones. Publish anything you want: links, pictures, text, video. A platform that is community-owned and ad-free.
* [Meshbird](https://github.com/meshbird/meshbird): Meshbird enables distributed private networking across geographically dispersed datacenters.
* [Mobilizon](https://joinmobilizon.org/): A federated tool that helps you find, create and organise events.
* [Neocities](https://neocities.org): Geocities-style websites, but decentralized.
* [NewNode](https://github.com/clostra/newnode): Decentralized Content Distribution Network (dCDN).
* [norcal](https://github.com/substack/norcal): P2P command-line calendar in Node.js. Can sync, link, embed, and edit offline.
* [nuTorrent ☠️](https://github.com/LeeChSien/nuTorrent): A Pure Javascript BitTorrent Client. Built with Electron and React.
* [OBS.Ninja](https://github.com/steveseguin/obsninja): 100% free; no downloads; no personal data collection; no sign-in, cutting edge Peer-to-Peer forwarding technology that offers privacy and ultra-low latency
* [OnionShare](https://onionshare.org): Open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size.
* [Open Bazaar](https://openbazaar.org): Decentralized network for P2P commerce online - using Bitcoin - that has no fees and no restrictions.
* [Orbit](https://github.com/haadcode/orbit): Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFS.
* [ORC ☠️](https://orc.network/): Onion Routed Cloud, a decentralized, anonymous, file storage platform. It uses the Tor network.
* [Orion](https://github.com/Siderus/Orion): Easy to Use, Inter Planetary File System (IPFS) desktop client.
* [Patchwork](https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork): Decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB). Another alternative interface is [Patchbay](https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay).
* [Peertransfer ☠️](https://github.com/pguth/peertransfer): Send a file p2p and e2e encrypted using nothing but your browser.
* [PeerTube](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube): Video streaming platform using BitTorrent directly in the web browser, with WebTorrent and Angular. Demo server at [peertube.cpy.re](https://peertube.cpy.re).
* [Philes](https://github.com/chrismatthieu/philes): A simple IPFS-powered decentralized notepad app.
* [Pleroma](https://pleroma.social): Federated social networking server built on open protocols. It is compatible with GNU Social, Mastodon, and many other ActivityPub and OStatus implementations.
* [Pollen](https://github.com/maxtheaxe/pollen): A decentralized messaging service that functions without any internet or mesh connection. Written in Python.
* [reep.io ☠️](https://reep.io): Transfer files directly to another browser, your peer will be able to download the file directly from you.
* [Ricochet](https://ricochet.im/): Different approach to instant messaging that doesn’t trust anyone in protecting your privacy. It uses the Tor network.
* [Roll-Call](https://rollcall.audio): Free and reliable audio calls for everyone w/ browser P2P.
* [ShareDrop ☠️](https://github.com/cowbell/sharedrop): Clone of Apple AirDrop service. Allows transfering files directly between devices, without having to upload them to any server first.
* [SocialHome](https://git.feneas.org/socialhome/socialhome): Federated personal profile with social networking functionality. Users can create rich content using Markdown and even HTML/JS/CSS. All content can be pinned to the user profile and all content will federate to contacts in the federated social web.
* [Steem](https://steem.io): Blockchain-based social media platform where anyone can earn rewards.
* [Storj](https://storj.io): Blockchain-based, end-to-end encrypted, distributed object storage, where only you have access to your data.
* [Syncthing-GTK](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-gtk): GUI for Syncthing - a continuous file synchronization program.
* [TheDistributedBay ☠️](https://github.com/TheDistributedBay/TheDistributedBay): P2P rewrite of the Open Bay/Pirate Bay. It uses a completely distributed protocol to share entries between numerous nodes, this makes it nearly impossible to take down by seizure of servers. Each node contains a complete copy and any changes are propagate through the network.
* [Ticktack](https://github.com/ticktackim/ticktack-workplan): Decentralized social platform for people to share knowledge and exchange value, with P2P messaging encrypted feature. Built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB).
* [Tox](https://tox.chat): Instant messaging application, without central servers. The system is distributed, peer-to-peer, and end-to-end encrypted.
* [twtxt](https://github.com/getwtxt/getwtxt): Decentralized microblogging platform "for hackers" based on text files. The user is "followed" and "mentioned" by referencing the URL to their twtxt.txt file and a nickname.
* [webcat ☠️](https://github.com/mafintosh/webcat): P2P pipe across the web using webrtc that uses Github private/public key for authentication and a signalhub for discovery. Can send text, or files.
* [WebTorrent Desktop](https://webtorrent.io/desktop): WebTorrent Desktop is for streaming torrents. It connects to both BitTorrent and WebTorrent peers.
* [YaCy](https://yacy.net/): Free distributed search engine, built on principles of P2P networks.
* [ZeroNet](https://zeronet.io/): Open, free and uncensorable websites, using Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent network. Uncensored, no hosting costs, always accessible.
### Crypto currency
* [Bitcoin](https://bitcoin.org): Unless you've been living under a rock for the past 5 years, you should know about Bitcoin.
* [Ethereum](https://ethereum.org): Decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.
* [Zcash](https://z.cash/): Permission-less financial system employing zero-knowledge security.
### Other
* [ArcBlock](https://arcblock.io/): ArcBlock is a decentralized developer platform that simplifies the development of DApps, DLT and Blockchains.
* [Solid](https://solid.inrupt.com): Solid was created by the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Its mission is to reshape the web as we know it. Solid will foster a new breed of applications with capabilities above and beyond anything that exists today.
* [Blockstack](https://blockstack.org): The new decentralized internet. Platform for application development with built in decentralized DNS.
* [Cryptosphere](https://cryptosphere.io): Open-source P2P web application platform for decentralized, privacy-preserving software which keeps users in control of their own content.
* [okTurtles](https://okturtles.com): DNSChain = Secure Blockchain Access and BlockchainID = decentralized web login.
* [Solid](https://solid.mit.edu): A proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles.
* [Blockply](https://blockply.com/): Blockply is a collection of the most interesting & outstanding Blockchain projects.
* [DataToken](https://github.com/ownership-labs/DataToken): A decentralized access control system for off-chain data sharing and monetization. Its vision is to make the data flows more transparent, by returning data ownership to its owners while maintaining the computability of data.
### Related Lists
* https://github.com/kgryte/awesome-peer-to-peer
* https://github.com/retrohacker/awesome-p2p
* https://github.com/Kikobeats/awesome-network-js
* https://github.com/steve-vincent/awesome-decentralized
* https://github.com/gdamdam/awesome-decentralized-web
* https://redecentralize.github.io/alternative-internet
* https://github.com/openblockchains/awesome-blockchains
* https://lhs.nu/archive
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