#9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
1. Zapstore - 1.0-rc1
Zapstore is a decentralized app marketplace powered by Nostr, letting users discover, install, and update apps through their social network. This release introduces a refreshed UI, a rewritten package manager for more reliable installs, curated app stacks, background update checks, improved security prompts, and better performance and stability, making app discovery and updates smoother, safer, and more user-friendly.
Contributed by: nostr:npub1wf4pufsucer5va8g9p0rj5dnhvfeh6d8w0g6eayaep5dhps6rsgs43dgh9
Source: https://github.com/zapstore/zapstore/releases/tag/1.0-rc1
2. Servus - v0.1.12
Servus is a minimalist, self-hosted social media server packaged as a single executable, making it easy to deploy and run without complex infrastructure. This release improves theme support by allowing theme customizations to be stored and reused, and enhances the site creation process with optional imports of Instagram and Twitter archives as well as automatic keypair generation, making setup faster, personalization easier, and onboarding more convenient for new users.
Contributed by: nostr:npub1lxpdhu4q5jjgfjvvtjachqapajhktzwtyefwryupzk94v3h7y0tqtx73vg
Source: https://github.com/servus-social/servus/releases/tag/v0.1.12
3. Amber - v4.0.6
Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android, designed to securely handle key management and event signing for Nostr apps without exposing private keys. This version improves reliability and performance by adding signer-side caching, fixing multiple crashes (including permission screens, invalid Nostr Connect URIs, and decryption errors), improving UI recomposition, and making relay connections more robust by retrying failed connect events, resulting in a smoother, safer experience for end users and developers who rely on Amber as a secure signing backend for their Nostr applications.
Contributed by: nostr:npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5
Source:
https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v4.0.6
4. Aegis - v0.3.4
Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr event signer that allows users to securely create and manage Nostr events across multiple connection methods. In version 0.3.4, it adds support for the nip55 nostrsigner scheme, enables importing and exporting local relay data, fixes potential local relay socket errors, optimizes the application creation process, and refines the local relay user interface, improving reliability, usability, and overall user experience.
Contributed by: nostr:npub179e5zckwq9vqsenc8ha9qv7p9vxwq20cq526ac67prts8kc4khmqu50zj8
Source:
https://github.com/ZharlieW/Aegis/releases/tag/v0.3.4
5. Keychat - v1.38.1+6489
Keychat is a secure chat app built on Bitcoin Ecash, Nostr, Signal, and MLS protocols, designed for private messaging across multiple platforms. In this version, it adds UnifiedPush support on Android and Linux for push notifications, introduces biometric authentication for privacy-sensitive operations, and refactors app directory initialization and reset logic, enhancing security, reliability, and user convenience.
Contributed by: kcdev
Source: https://github.com/keychat-io/keychat-app/releases/tag/v1.38.1%2B6489
6. Monster - v0.0.8-monstr-alpha-android
Monstr is a Svelte + Vite Nostr client with Android support via Capacitor, offering timeline feeds, posting, replies, reposts, Lightning zaps, Monero tipping, wallet management, and accessibility features. In this version, it fixes an initialization hang, tweaks the Composer modal, and ensures Nsec Android logins are persisted, improving stability and usability for end users.
Contributed by: boshi-chan
Source: https://github.com/boshi-chan/nostr-monstr/releases/tag/v0.0.8-monstr-alpha-android
7. Nostur - v1.25
Nostur is a Nostr client for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, designed for end users to access feeds, DMs, bookmarks, and media across multiple accounts. Version 1.25 introduces a new desktop multi-column mode (via Nostur Pro) with customizable columns, enhanced private DM and group chat support, dedicated voice message and short video feeds, improved audio compatibility, Relay Autopilot toggle for custom feeds, and better handling of quoted posts, alongside numerous bug fixes and performance improvements, making the app more versatile and user-friendly.
Contributed by: nostr:npub1n0sturny6w9zn2wwexju3m6asu7zh7jnv2jt2kx6tlmfhs7thq0qnflahe
Source: https://github.com/nostur-com/nostur-ios-public/releases/tag/1.25.0
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