Awesome IPFS

This is a community list of awesome projects, apps, tools, and services related to IPFS.

If you have an idea for an awesome thing to do with IPFS, a good place to ask about it might be in the IPFS Forums.

Table of Contents

• Implementations
• Apps
• Tools
• Services & Platforms
• Contribute
• License

Implementations

IPFS is an open-source project that encourages the development of multiple implementations of the protocol, each of which seeks to optimize for various use cases.

Check out the list of IPFS implementations in the IPFS docs.

Apps

• Agregore - A minimal web browser for the distributed web. Supports downloading/uploading data from IPFS using the browser's fetch() API
• AirSecure - Decentralized two factor authentication app built on Textile & IPFS.
• Arbore - A friend-to-friend file-sharing app build on top of IPFS.
• archiveweb.page - A High-Fidelity Web Archiving Extension for Chrome and Chromium based browsers with support for IPFS.
• Autonomica "IPFS Social Proof" - Autonomica is a Keybase-like Dapp for creating an identity and proving this identity via published social media and web proofs.
• brig - File synchronization with git like interface and FUSE filesystem.
• Diffuse - Play music from your IPFS node, or any other cloud/distributed storage service you use.
• Durin - Mobile app for accessing and uploading content on the IPFS network.
• Hardbin - Hardbin is an encrypted pastebin, with the decryption key passed in the URL fragment
• InterPlanetary Wayback - Web Archive (WARC) indexing and replay using IPFS.
• Interplanetary Wiki - Wiki built on top of IPFS
• ipcoronafs - A realtime service to scrape COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2, storing on IPFS, DNSLink, and streaming over LibP2P pubsub
• IPFessay - A simple way to publish uncensorable essays on IPFS.
• IPFS Desktop - IPFS Desktop gives you all the power of IPFS in a convenient desktop app: a complete IPFS node, plus handy OS menubar/taskbar shortcuts and an all-in-one file manager, peer map, and content explorer.
• ipfs-chat - Terminal-based, encrypted chatrooms. Allows private messaging & secure in-chat file/directory sharing. Server/broker-less (no signaling/rendezvous server needed). Works over LAN/internet(w/ NAT-traversal).
• IPFS-FPS - A completely decentralized first person shooter. Built with Unity, Fleek, Unstoppable Domans and Pinata.
• ipfs-search - IPFS search engine Sniffs the DHT gossip and indexes file and directory hashes. Metadata and search API's available.
• IPGit - Remote Git repository that mirrors your code to IPFS
• killcord - A censorship resistant deadman's switch
• Peer Web Site - Peer to Peer Web Site hosting at your fingertips! Send full featured HTML (incl. CSS, JS) sites from your browser and attach files eg. videos, images, etc.
• Peergos - End-to-end encrypted, peer-to-peer file storage and sharing.
• PushToTalk - Push to Talk lets you edit audio essays and publish them with IPFS.
• Skiff - Privacy-first, end-to-end encrypted email, file storage, and collaboration platform using IPFS storage.

Browsers

A list of web browsers with IPFS integrations

• Agregore - A minimal web browser for the distributed web. Supports downloading/uploading data from IPFS using the browser's fetch() API
• Brave - A privacy-focused browser with many future forward features.
• galacteek - A multi-platform Qt5-based browser for the distributed web.

Tools

• bifrost-gateway - [EXPERIMENTAL] A lightweight IPFS Gateway daemon backed by a remote data store.
• create-ipfs-app - Set up a decentralized web3 app by running one command.
• gatsby-plugin-ipfs - Adds support for deploying Gatsby websites to IPFS by ensuring that assets are relative.
• git-ipfs-rehost - A script to rehost your git repos in ipfs.
• git-remote-ipfs - push/pull repositories from/to IPFS.
• Git IPFS Remote Bridge - set of programs written in Python 3 which allow Git user to clone, push, fetch, self-host or release Git repositories over IPFS decentralized data storage system.
• go-orbit-db - This is a Golang port of OrbitDB that intends to be fully compatible with the original JavaScript version. OrbitDB is a serverless, distributed, peer-to-peer database.
• gomobile-ipfs - IPFS and libp2p on Mobile, with Gomobile.
• http2ipfs - This is a simple webtool to add URLs to an IPFS node.
• IPDR - IPFS-backed Docker Registry.
• IPFS Setup Action - A GitHub Action to install and initialize go-ipfs to provision a cross-platform test environment on GitHub's CI platform.
• ipfs-action - GitHub Action for delivery of static websites.
• ipfs-add-from-encrypted - Encrypt a file or directory with AES256 then add to IPFS.
• ipfs-companion - Browser extension that simplifies access to IPFS resources.
• ipfs-deploy - Zero-config CLI to deploy static websites: cd my-static-website && npx @agentofuser/ipfs-deploy
• ipfs-encrypted-share - Easy to use encrypted file uploader.
• ipfs-mount - Mount IPFS as a mapped drive on Windows.
• ipfs-paste - Paste stdin and clipboard to IPFS.
• ipfs-pinner - A toolkit help upload files to IPFS pinning services.
• ipfs-publish - Continuous Delivery tool for delivery of static websites from Git providers to IPFS.
• ipfs-screencap - Capture screenshots, publish them to IPFS, and copy the link to the clipboard.
• ipfs-video-gateway - Cloud-init your own IPFS gateway on a cloud provider and easily pin content through a simple web interface.
• ipfsecret - Encrypt and decrypt IPFS files with a secret passphrase.
• ipget - 📡 wget for IPFS: retrieve files over IPFS and save them locally.
• IPLD Explorer - Explore the Merkle Forest from the comfort of your browser.
• ipns-pin - A command-line tool to pin stuff via ipns.
• IPRedirect - Browser userscript for redirecting IPFS/IPNS addresses to your local gateway. This should work on any browser that hasn't had an extension written for it yet and has support for userscripts.
• iprfc - IETF RFC downloader which stores RFCs on IPFS and indexes them with RTradeLtd/Lens.
• mahuta - Mahuta is a plug and play service for your micro-service architecture allowing to collect, store and index data on IPFS and offering search functionalities (full text, query).
• Multiverse - Multiverse is a decentralized version control system that enables peer-to-peer software development.
• orbit-db - OrbitDB is a serverless, distributed, peer-to-peer database that uses IPFS as its data storage and IPFS Pubsub to automatically sync databases with peers.
• Public Gateway Checker - Checks which public gateways are online or not.
• rivet - A toolkit makes it easier to archive webpages to IPFS.
• SimpleAsWater Bot - A twitter bot that adds, pins, unpins your tweets to public IPFS network using IPFS Cluster.
• solid-ipfs - Using Solid to store IPFS Hash privately or publicly.
• Sweet IPFS - Full node for Android.
• Tellit - Encrypt files before uploading them using a keypair or a passphrase.
• VIPFS - Publish your Vue apps easily to IPFS.
• wbipfs - A command-line tool and Go package interface for wayback webpage to IPFS.
• youtube2ipfs - Download videos from YouTube (and similar video platforms) and add them to IPFS.

Services & Platforms

• Ceramic - Ceramic combines IPFS content addressing with advanced cryptography and blockchain timestamps to guarantee security and verifiability of data.
• Fleek - Open Web development platform for building, hosting, and storing sites and apps on IPFS, Filecoin, and the Internet Computer.
• Fission - Fission builds open source protocols and managed solutions that empower developers to construct scalable and secure software applications.
• Peergos - Your private, but social, space online. Store and edit documents and media. Share files or folders with friends.
• Valist - A trustless universal package repository enabling you to digitally sign and distribute software in just a few steps.

Pinning services

• Filebase - Pinning data to IPFS can be hard. Filebase removes that complexity.
• NFT.Storage - Free decentralized storage and bandwidth for NFTs on IPFS & Filecoin.
• Pinata - Build and manage your dapp through Pinata’s REST API and IPFS toolkit.
• Infura - Scalable and distributed storage infrastructure for your application
• Web3.storage - Simple file storage with IPFS & Filecoin.

Contribute

Contributions are welcome!

See the Contribution Guidelines.

License