All decentralized tools
Every tool in the directory. Filter by category or search by the service it replaces.
Pinata
Developer-focused file storage service built around IPFS, providing upload and retrieval APIs so teams do not run their own pinning infrastructure.
Delta Chat
Decentralized messenger that sends chats over email infrastructure and interoperable chatmail relays, with multi-profile and multi-device support.
Inrupt
Company founded around the Solid specification, providing wallet and data infrastructure for consented customer data and agent-driven experiences.
Sia
Decentralized, encrypted storage network where users rent space from independent hosts under smart contracts, with software for renters and hosts.
DIMO
Open vehicle platform handling access, telemetry, identity and driver consent across many car brands so developers can build connected-car apps.
Hivemapper
Global street-level mapping network built by contributors who collect imagery with dashcams and apps, producing continuously refreshed map data.
Prime Intellect
Platform for training, deploying and improving models on an integrated stack of decentralized compute, training, inference and sandbox services.
Blacksky
Community-run infrastructure and tooling on the AT Protocol, including feeds and moderation services governed by the communities that use them.
d.id
Team building proof-of-humanity and decentralized identifier protocols, including the .bit naming and DID system for human-readable identities.
Rocket.Chat
Open-source communications platform for messaging, voice and video that organizations self-host, with federation and interoperability features.
BigBlueButton
Open-source virtual classroom platform for online teaching, with whiteboards, breakout rooms and recordings, run on institutions' own servers.
Start9
Sovereign computing company selling private server hardware and software so people can run their own services instead of using intermediaries.
DNSCrypt
Open project maintaining protocols and server and client software that authenticate and encrypt DNS traffic, with a public list of resolvers.
Indicio
Verifiable credentials platform and network operator providing decentralized identity infrastructure for people, organizations and AI agents.
Internet Computer
Blockchain-based sovereign serverless cloud where canister smart contracts serve web applications directly from a decentralized node network.
Jami
Distributed, open-source communication platform for calls, video and messaging that connects peers directly without a central account server.
Solid
Web standards project started by Tim Berners-Lee in which people keep data in personal online datastores and grant applications access to it.
Namecoin
Experimental open-source blockchain that decentralizes DNS and identity components of internet infrastructure, including the .bit namespace.
walt.id
Open-source digital identity and wallet infrastructure used by developers, governments and businesses to issue, hold and verify credentials.
GEODNET
Community-powered network of GNSS reference stations delivering centimeter-level RTK positioning for drones, robots and autonomous systems.
Theta Network
Distributed GPU and edge network for video delivery, rendering and AI inference, combining managed cloud GPUs with community edge capacity.
Helium
Network that lets anyone deploy and own wireless coverage by running hotspots, with the resulting capacity sold to carriers and IoT users.
iExec
Confidential computing platform using trusted execution environments so applications can process data privately with onchain auditability.
Aethir
Distributed GPU-as-a-service network supplying on-demand compute for AI and cloud gaming through partner data centers and node operators.
Filebase
S3-compatible storage platform that writes objects to decentralized networks such as IPFS, including tooling for IPFS websites with IPNS.
Hyperledger Identus
Open-source self-sovereign identity stack under Hyperledger for issuing, holding and verifying decentralized identifiers and credentials.
libp2p
Modular networking stack extracted from IPFS that handles peer discovery, transports and encrypted streams for peer-to-peer applications.
Trinsic
Identity acceptance network that lets services accept government ID wallets, mobile driver's licenses, eIDs and bank IDs through one API.
Funkwhale
Federated audio platform for hosting personal music libraries, podcasts and artist channels, with sharing between participating servers.
NeoDB
Federated catalog and review service for books, films, music, podcasts and games, where users track what they consume and share reviews.
Dock Labs
Identity platform for issuing and verifying reusable digital credentials so ID verification works across internal systems and partners.
Umbrel
Home server operating system and hardware for self-hosting apps such as Nextcloud, Jellyfin and a Bitcoin node with one-click installs.
Urbit
Clean-slate personal computing stack where each user runs a small permanent server identity that hosts their own applications and data.
WeatherXM
Community-built weather network where station owners contribute observations and are rewarded, with the data sold as weather services.
Castopod
Free and open-source podcast hosting platform with built-in fediverse interaction, so listeners can follow and comment from Mastodon.
Ceramic
Decentralized data network for storing mutable, user-controlled data streams that interoperate across Web3 applications and services.