Awesome distributed, decentralized, p2p apps or tools

Note: Links marked with "☠️ " are old and probably no longer maintained.

Applications

• Aether: P2P ephemeral public communities. Open source, self-governing
• Airshare: CLI tool and module for transferring data between 2 machines in a local network, P2P, using Multicast-DNS. Works completely offline. communities with auditable moderation and mod elections.
• Agregore: A minimalistic web browser that supports multiple peer-to-peer protocols and is extensible with standard WebExtensions.
• airpaste ☠️: A 1-1 network pipe that auto discovers other peers using mdns. Can send text or files.
• AKASHA: A Next-Generation Social Media Network. Powered by the Ethereum world computer. Embedded into the Inter-Planetary File System.
• Beaker: Experimental browser. It adds new technologies for Peer-to-Peer applications while staying compatible with the rest of the Web.
• Berty: secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network.
• Bitmessage: P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers.
• Cabal: P2P community offline-first chat platform.
• CacheP2P: highly distributed cache platform based on WebTorrent and runs only in the browser.
• Cactus Comments: Federated comment system for the open web built on Matrix.
• croc: Easily and securely send files and folders from one computer to another in command line.
• Cryptor: Overlay P2P network that values your privacy and anonymity above all else. Packages and some clients included.
• Dat desktop app: Decentralized data tool for distributing data small and large.
• Demonsaw: Secure and anonymous information sharing application that makes security simple and gives you back control of your data.
• Diaspora: A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network. Main pod is at Diasp.eu.
• Dropub ☠️: Share files for free on the internet. It's like Dropbox meets BitTorrent.
• Ferment ☠️: P2P audio publishing and streaming application. Like SoundCloud but decentralized. Built using SSB + Webtorrent.
• FilePizza: Free peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser.
• 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 of where each user profile is hosted.
• Friends ☠️: P2P chat powered by the web. This project is alpha quality.
• Hardbin: Encrypted pastebin using IPFS.
• Handshake: 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: General purpose platform for creating interconnected websites featuring a decentralized identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology.
• Hyperpad: Peer-to-peer collaborative text editor.
• Element (formerly Riot): Collaboration client for the web. Chat, VOIP video, file transfer, end-to-end crypto.
• I2P: Anonymous network, exposing a simple layer that applications can use to anonymously and securely send messages to each other.
• instant.io: Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent (torrents on the web).
• IPFS bin ☠️: Pastebin application for sharing code and text documents to other people.
• ipfs-chat: Terminal-based, secure chatrooms using IPFS. Works over both LAN and internet (includes NAT traversal). Supports private-messaging and file/directory sharing.
• IPFS Desktop: A native application to run your own IPFS Node.
• iWant ☠️: Commandline tool for searching and downloading files in LAN network, without any central server.
• Jami: 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: Light decentralized VPN in golang.
• 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: Decentralized internet and app infrastructure which rewards users for participating in the network.
• Mastodon: 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: Meshbird enables distributed private networking across geographically dispersed datacenters.
• Mobilizon: A federated tool that helps you find, create and organise events.
• Neocities: Geocities-style websites, but decentralized.
• NewNode: Decentralized Content Distribution Network (dCDN).
• norcal: P2P command-line calendar in Node.js. Can sync, link, embed, and edit offline.
• Noms ☠️: Versioned, forkable, syncable decentralized database, philosophically descendant from the Git version control system. Nobody is working on this right now.
• nuTorrent ☠️: A Pure Javascript BitTorrent Client. Built with Electron and React.
• OnionShare: Open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size.
• Open Bazaar: Decentralized network for P2P commerce online - using Bitcoin - that has no fees and no restrictions.
• Orbit: Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFS.
• ORC ☠️: Onion Routed Cloud, a decentralized, anonymous, file storage platform. It uses the Tor network.
• Orion: Easy to Use, Inter Planetary File System (IPFS) desktop client.
• Patchwork: Decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB). Another alternative interface is Patchbay.
• Peertransfer ☠️: Send a file p2p and e2e encrypted using nothing but your browser.
• PeerTube: Video streaming platform using BitTorrent directly in the web browser, with WebTorrent and Angular. Demo server at peertube.cpy.re.
• Philes: A simple IPFS-powered decentralized notepad app.
• Pleroma: Federated social networking server built on open protocols. It is compatible with GNU Social, Mastodon, and many other ActivityPub and OStatus implementations.
• Pollen: A decentralized messaging service that functions without any internet or mesh connection. Written in Python.
• reep.io ☠️: Transfer files directly to another browser, your peer will be able to download the file directly from you.
• Ricochet: Different approach to instant messaging that doesn’t trust anyone in protecting your privacy. It uses the Tor network.
• Roll-Call: Free and reliable audio calls for everyone w/ browser P2P.
• ShareDrop ☠️: Clone of Apple AirDrop service. Allows transferring files directly between devices, without having to upload them to any server first.
• 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: Blockchain-based social media platform where anyone can earn rewards.
• Storj: Blockchain-based, end-to-end encrypted, distributed object storage, where only you have access to your data.
• Syncthing-GTK: GUI for Syncthing - a continuous file synchronization program.
• 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: Decentralized social platform for people to share knowledge and exchange value, with P2P messaging encrypted feature. Built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB).
• Tox: Instant messaging application, without central servers. The system is distributed, peer-to-peer, and end-to-end encrypted.
• twtxt: 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.
• Vdo.Ninja: 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
• 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: WebTorrent Desktop is for streaming torrents. It connects to both BitTorrent and WebTorrent peers.
• YaCy: Free distributed search engine, built on principles of P2P networks.
• ZeroNet: Open, free and uncensorable websites, using Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent network. Uncensored, no hosting costs, always accessible.

Crypto currency

• Bitcoin: Unless you've been living under a rock for the past 5 years, you should know about Bitcoin.
• Ethereum: Decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.
• Zcash: Permission-less financial system employing zero-knowledge security.

Other

• ArcBlock: ArcBlock is a decentralized developer platform that simplifies the development of DApps, DLT and Blockchains.
• Solid: 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: The new decentralized internet. Platform for application development with built in decentralized DNS.
• Cryptosphere: Open-source P2P web application platform for decentralized, privacy-preserving software which keeps users in control of their own content.
• okTurtles: DNSChain = Secure Blockchain Access and BlockchainID = decentralized web login.
• Solid: A proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles.
• Blockply: Blockply is a collection of the most interesting & outstanding Blockchain projects.
• 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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