Building Nostr
building-nostr.coracle.socialLearn about the Nostr protocol through Building Nostr, a guide written for developers.
Looking for something like blossy? Here are 24 alternatives, ranked by how closely they match it on purpose, features and platforms. Of these, 23 are open source.
Blossy supports building customized Blossom servers through a framework written for the media protocol.
| # | Alternative | Pricing | Open source | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Building Nostr | — | Not stated | Web |
| 2 | Blossom | — | Yes | — |
| 3 | Blossom Drive | — | Yes | — |
| 4 | BlazeJump | — | Yes | Android |
| 5 | bcr-relay | — | Yes | — |
| 6 | blisk | — | Yes | — |
| 7 | dart NDK | — | Yes | — |
| 8 | bloom | — | Yes | Android, iOS, Linux |
| 9 | algia-web | — | Yes | — |
| 10 | bray | — | Yes | — |
Learn about the Nostr protocol through Building Nostr, a guide written for developers.
Blossom specifies HTTP endpoints for storing blobs on media servers using Nostr public and private keys for identity.
Blossom Drive was an experimental cloud drive built on Blossom servers; its project page says it is no longer active.
BlazeJump provides core protocol interactions through a minimal Nostr client written in C#.
Bitcredit event traffic is handled by bcr-relay, a specialized Nostr relay implementation written in Rust.
Blisk stores Blossom blobs in a local indexed database designed for deduplicated storage.
Dart NDK provides a Dart development kit with high-level use cases for building Nostr applications.
bloom combines a self-hosted media server with a Nostr relay for decentralized media sharing.
algia-web renders Nostr pages through server-side rendering backed by the algia command line tool.
bray provides a trust-aware Nostr MCP server with verification, proximity, and access controls.
cfrelay runs a Nostr relay on Cloudflare Workers and supports the basic NIP-01 protocol.
arduino-nostr connects Arduino projects to the Nostr protocol, with the repository describing Nostr as an open communication protocol.
This repository publishes a feature matrix showing protocol capabilities supported by Nostr clients.
This comparison list tracks which Nostr clients support different protocol features and NIPs.
dart-nostr provides a Flutter library for implementing the Nostr protocol in Dart.
Disgus provides embeddable website comments backed by the Nostr open protocol.
atomstr converts RSS and Atom feeds into Nostr events by fetching feed content and publishing it through the protocol.
Clawstr connects AI agents through a social network built on the Nostr protocol.
Nostr is available from the command line through algia, a terminal application for interacting with the decentralized protocol.
Bucket provides a lightweight testing relay for Nostr client development and protocol experiments.
Nostr badge events of kind 8 can be created and issued with Badger, a client for the protocol.
ehagaki provides a post-only Nostr client that compresses media on the device before upload.
better-auth-nostr adds NIP-98 Nostr authentication to Better Auth through a plugin for login flows.
Bostr2 is the next generation of Bostr, with installation instructions requiring Go.
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