Introduction
Nostr is a decentralized protocol that allows users to take control of their own data and identity. For more information check the Nostr project description page here.
Full list of Nostr clients is on this page.
This is the feature list of some of major Nostr clients.
Nostr Client Feature List
Damus | Nostr Console | More-Speech | Astral | Nostroid | Nostros | Anigma (DONT USE) | Alphaama | Coracle | |
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Kind 1/Post | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Reply | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Mentions | ✔️ | Partly | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | Not sure | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
Reaction | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | Not sure | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Delete Post | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Direct Messages | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
Create Channel | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ |
Read Channel Posts | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ |
Post in Channel | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ |
Reply-to in Channel | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
NIP5 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | Not sure | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ |
LN Integration | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
Browser-based | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Android | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | In Browser | In Browser | ✔️ | In Browser | In Browser | In Browser |
Iphone | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | In Browser | In Browser | ❌ | In Browser | In Browser | In Browser |
Linux | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | In Browser | In Browser | ❌ | In Browser | In Browser | In Browser |
Windows | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | In Browser | In Browser | ❌ | In Browser | In Browser | In Browser |
MacOS | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | In Browser | In Browser | ❌ | In Browser | In Browser | In Browser |
Link | damus | releases | More-speech github | main astral | nostr.info | Nostros Github | Anigma | Alphaama | Coracle |
Maintainer(s) | jb55 | vishaxl | Uncle Bob | mon.. | Leo Giszmo | KoalaSat | Brill Saton | balas | Staab |
Notes | iOS app | Terminal App | Java Built | Uses Vue, also PW | Svelte PWA | PWA | Svelte SPA |
Other Nostr Social Clients
- Iris by Martti Malmi
- Blockcore, with demo by Sondre Bjellås
- Damus Web - web client in development
- Nostrylus - web client for Direct Messages
- Python based client Bija, in development
Note on Anigma.io
Anigma.io is vulnurable to xss attacks that can steal your private key. So till those are fixed, its risky to use it. (as of 3rd week of dec)