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1. Amethyst - v1.11.0: Calendars and OnChain Zaps
Amethyst is a Nostr client for Android focused on decentralized social networking, Bitcoin integration, and advanced protocol support. This release introduces major additions including NIP-52 calendar events with reminders, expanded on-chain Bitcoin zap features, Marmot/MLS group message replies, contact list navigation, and enhanced profile/payment tools. It also improves privacy, notifications, media handling, search, translations, desktop stability, and overall app performance while adding numerous UI refinements and bug fixes across feeds, zaps, uploads, playback, and relay handling.
Contributed by:
@Vitor Pamplona,
@greenart7c3,
@Quentin, David Kaspar, Róbert Nagy, mstrofnone
Source:
GitHub
Release v1.11.0: Calendars and OnChain Zaps · vitorpamplona/amethyst
What's Changed
feat(profile): restore Lightning Address + LNURL fields in Edit Profile by @vitorpamplona in #2947
Raises the default maximum hasht...
2. Amber - v6.1.0-pre3 (Pre-release)
Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that securely manages keys and signing requests for Nostr applications. This pre-release improves app connection flows with a redesigned permissions experience, better bunker handling, and support for PSBT signing, while also adding intent rate limiting, boot-service controls, beta auto-update support, expanded auto-sign options, and multiple fixes for crashes, relay authentication, startup behavior, and signer request handling.
Contributed by:
@greenart7c3
Source:
GitHub
Release Release v6.1.0-pre3 · greenart7c3/Amber
Amber 6.1.0-pre3
Better layout when connecting a new app
Fix some reported crashes
Fix signer dialog not closing after accepting a bunker request
...
3. Mostro - v0.17.4
Mostro is a production-ready, censorship-resistant, non-custodial Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange built on Nostr. This release introduces a major multi-phase anti-abuse bond system with concurrent taker bonds, dispute slashing, forfeited states, payout confirmation flows, and improved bond lifecycle management, alongside NIP-59 dual-key gift wrap transport support, new environment variable key handling, price provider reliability improvements, dispute solver permissions, and multiple fixes and documentation updates across trading, payments, and dispute resolution flows.
Contributed by:
@negrunch,
@Pinball Wizard,
@Andrea Díaz Correia,
@Catrya, codaMW
Source:
GitHub
Release Release v0.17.4 · MostroP2P/mostro
Verifying the Release
In order to verify the release, you'll need to have gpg or gpg2 installed on your system. Once you've obtained a copy (and ho...
4. White Noise - v2026.5.22
White Noise is a private, decentralized messaging application built on the Nostr protocol that uses the Marmot protocol for MLS-based group encryption and keypair-based identity management. This release adds cross-platform push notifications for iOS and Android, markdown rendering in chats, improved group management (add/leave members), deep linking to chats, profiles, and settings, media and message sharing improvements, multilingual support including Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and multiple reliability fixes across chat state handling, QR scanning, external signer recovery, and notification systems.
Contributed by:
@JeffG ,
@J.G.Montoya.Hodl,
@Danny,
@pepi, Mubarak Auwal, stupidloud, Datawav
Source:
GitHub
Release v2026.5.22 · marmot-protocol/whitenoise
Push notifications work on iOS and Android. Chat messages render markdown. You can share to other apps, add members to a group, and leave a group f...
5. Nymchat - v3.66.409
Nymchat is a lightweight, feature-rich messaging application built on the Nostr protocol, designed for pseudonymous and temporary communication with additional bridging to Bitchat for short-lived chats. This release is a focused hotfix update that improves performance and responsiveness by moving typing indicator signing and cryptographic processing to a background worker, reducing UI blocking during real-time messaging. Although this was the latest, there were also a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by:
@Luxas
Source:
GitHub
Release v3.66.409 · Spl0itable/NYM
Hotfix: various UI improvements
6. Keychat - v1.41.1+6513
Keychat is a cross-platform messaging application that combines Bitcoin Ecash, the Nostr protocol, Signal Protocol, and MLS-based group encryption to enable secure, private communication with media sharing, file transfers, and relay-aware messaging features. This release improves security and forward secrecy by deleting Signal one-time prekeys after successful decryption, enhances chat UX with URL previews and improved media downloading, adds automatic update checking, refactors core message and relay handling for better reliability, removes voice message support, improves relay metadata loading (including paid relay configs), and includes significant Android build optimizations and expanded test coverage for stability.
Contributed by: kcdev, jack-keychat
Source:
GitHub
Release v1.41.1+6513 · keychat-io/keychat-app
Keychat 1.41.1+6513
fix: delete Signal one-time prekey immediately after successful decryption to enforce forward secrecy
feat: URL preview for li...
7. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.2.7
Mostro Mobile Client is a mobile application that allows users to interact with the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading system built on Nostr and the Lightning Network. The v1.2.7 release adds a new Venezuela community node, improves P2P chat reliability with push wake-up and whitelist support, and enhances session restore behavior by providing clearer outcomes when recovery actions fail or cannot be completed.
Contributed by:
@negrunch,
@Andrea Díaz Correia,
@Catrya
Source:
GitHub
Release v1.2.7 · MostroP2P/mobile
⚡ Mostro Mobile v1.2.7
A new version of the Mostro P2P Bitcoin trading app is here!
This release brings 3 new feature(s):
feat: add Venezuela co...
8. Divine Mobile - 1.0.14
Divine Mobile is a dark-mode-focused short-form video mobile application built on the Nostr protocol that enables users to create, edit, share, and interact with loop-based video content alongside messaging and profile features. This release significantly enhances the editing experience with clip speed controls, timeline volume editing, local audio imports, and audio extraction from clips, improves messaging with emoji reactions, lightweight markdown support, better inbox previews, and more reliable delivery, strengthens profile features including banner uploads and verified account indicators, and adds clip trash with 30-day recovery, along with improvements to feed performance, search, notifications, and overall stability across the app.
Contributed by:
@rabble,
@Daniel Cadenas,
@untreu, Meylis, matthew bradley, Liz Sweigart, Alex Frei, Oscar
Source:
GitHub
Release 1.0.14 · divinevideo/divine-mobile
Release Notes
Life in Loops got a bigger tune-up.
This update brings more tools for making loops your own: clip speed controls, timeline volume edi...
9. Wisp - v1.1.0
Wisp is a lightweight Android client for the Nostr protocol designed for fast, minimal, and performance-focused social interaction, including posting, messaging, media viewing, and zapping features. The v1.1.0 release introduces improved wallet and zap handling with fiat-style input and private zaps, enhanced authentication with Google sign-in and encrypted Nostr key backup, support for remote signer details, auto-translate for notes, improved media browsing with swipe galleries, and private messaging features using NIP-17 gift wrapping and DIP-03 routing, while also refining relay behavior, onboarding flows, and removing local relay and NIP-55 remote signer support for a simplified architecture.
Contributed by:
@utxo the webmaster 🧑💻,
@The Daniel 🖖,
@greenart7c3
Source:
GitHub
Release v1.1.0 · barrydeen/wisp
What's Changed
feat: register-style fiat input on the zap dialog by @dmnyc in #519
Pause/resume local relay on app lifecycle events by @greenart7c...
10. Nostr VPN - v4.0.39
Nostr VPN is a decentralized mesh VPN system built around the Nostr protocol and a FIPS-backed data plane that enables peer-to-peer connectivity, NAT traversal, and encrypted networking between devices across platforms. This release introduces built-in public FIPS bootstrap nodes for fallback connectivity, improved relay-based peer discovery controls, native WireGuard configuration import, TCP-based transport for restrictive networks, and a manual network join feature, along with major UI and networking improvements across all platforms including better diagnostics, peer management, invite handling, and performance optimizations, while also enhancing Linux, macOS, Windows, and containerized deployment stability. This was the latest and there were a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by:
@Sirius
Source:
GitHub
Release v4.0.39 · mmalmi/nostr-vpn
Downloads
Most People Will Want
Nostr VPN for macOS (Apple Silicon): nostr-vpn-v4.0.39-macos-arm64.dmg
Nostr VPN for Debian/Ubuntu (.deb): nostr-v...
11. Nostrord - v1.0.3
Nostrord is a client application built for interacting with Nostr groups (NIP-29), providing features such as messaging, notifications, multi-account support, and relay-based event tracking across different platforms. This release improves security with OS keychain-based local key storage and passphrase fallback, enhances usability with tappable bunker QR login for Android, adds an offline relay management experience, introduces a notification center for cross-relay event tracking, improves multi-account handling, and includes various UI, video, metadata, and CI/testing improvements.
Contributed by:
@Anjhc
Source:
GitHub
Release v1.0.3 · nostrord/nostrord
What's Changed
feat(desktop/security): harden local key storage with OS keychain + passphrase fallback by @Anderson-Juhasc in #50
feat(login): mak...
#tools_nostr_recap
1. Evade Censorship with Nostr
@Max
2. How to have UNCENSORABLE internet using NostrVPN
#education_nostr_recap
1. Nostr meetup - June 2026
📅 Date: Monday, June 01, 2026
⏰ Time: 12.06 PM GMT+5:30
📍 Location: Online
🤹♀️ Organizers: ca10921e
🔗 Event: 
1. Living 100% on Bitcoin, Nostr & Nature
@paul keating, @Efrat Fenigson
2. GitHub is cracking - the Hungarian Nostr alternative is being built
3. Bitcoin, Nostr & Freedom Tech
@Jordi Llonch Esteve
4. VaultChat — Private Nostr Messenger
5. The Internet: A Corporate Hijacking of Digital Freedom?
#media_nostr_recap
1. Nostr Java - v1.3.0
Nostr Java is a SDK for building applications on the Nostr protocol using Java. The v1.3.0 release refactors WebSocket handling for improved reliability, enhances NIP-44 key derivation and error handling, improves test robustness, and updates multiple development and publishing dependencies across the project. This was the biggest, and there were also the releases of v2.0.4, v2.0.5, v2.0.6, and v2.0.7 last week.
Contributed by: Eric T
Source: 
1. GRAIN - v0.7.0
GRAIN is a comprehensive Nostr infrastructure project that combines a configurable relay server for operators with a Go client library for developers building Nostr applications. The v0.7.0 release introduces a full web-based relay administration dashboard with live configuration editing, owner-authenticated management using NIP-86 and NIP-98, improved login and signer persistence flows, expanded theming and UI customization, enhanced DM privacy protections for gift-wrapped messages, improved blacklist and mute-list synchronization, support for multiple backup relays, and major operational, security, and usability improvements for relay operators and developers managing Nostr infrastructure.
Contributed by: @OceanSlim
- Source: 
@farooq
“i open twitter and all i see is distractions and mainstream propaganda which makes me anxious.
i open nostr and i feel a completely different vibe, there's still hope.”
quote_nostr_recap
Nostr is growing fast!
According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are now over 240 Nostr clients and over 500 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe.
According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics,
Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days):
👉🏻 Amethyst - 840 Users - 15.6k Notes
👉🏻 Primal Android - 692 Users - 7.3k Notes
👉🏻 Primal Web - 617 Users - 4.2k Notes
Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists):
👉🏻 
Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by @JeffG , 
1. Citrine - v3.0.0-pre2 (Pre-release)
Citrine is an Android-based Nostr relay and relay aggregator that supports event storage, filtering, and synchronization across multiple relays. This pre-release adds Negentropy (NIP-77) sync support, external signer and NIP-42 authentication integration, mute-list enforcement, improved relay aggregation controls, better protection against reposted or sensitive events, reduced battery usage, performance optimizations in event handling, and a redesigned settings and networking interface with enhanced local, Wi-Fi, and Tor address management.
Contributed by: @greenart7c3
Source: 
1. Angor - v0.2.26 (Unstable Release)
Angor is an alpha-stage decentralized peer-to-peer funding protocol built on Bitcoin and Nostr that enables project creation, funding workflows, wallet management, and encrypted participant coordination. This unstable release improves encrypted messaging by migrating from NIP-04 to NIP-44, adds stronger protocol-level validation for timelocks, fees, dust limits, and penalties, enhances wallet safety on Android including protection against swipe-kill data loss, strengthens key and mnemonic security, fixes GrapheneOS compatibility issues, enables Blossom uploads using ephemeral Nostr authentication, and includes multiple UI, wallet, and testing improvements while remaining in an unstable experimental (alpha) stage. This was the biggest, and there were also the releases of v0.2.27 and v0.2.28 last week.
Contributed by: @dangershony, TheDude, Zaza
Source: 
Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by @JeffG ,