#9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
1. vnak - New Tool
vnak (Visual Nostr Army Knife) is a lightweight, visual version of the Nostr Army Knife (nak) designed to provide accessible, graphical tools for interacting with Nostr. While similar in purpose to nak, vnak is currently less feature-complete and focuses on core visual functionalities rather than the full range of capabilities.
Developed by: nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6
Source: https://github.com/fiatjaf/vnak
2. Coracle - 0.6.27
Coracle is a web-based Nostr client designed to explore advanced Nostr features such as intelligent relay selection, web-of-trust moderation, personalized content recommendations, and strong privacy protections. In this version, the update delivers a few small but important fixes: correcting imgproxy URL handling, preventing non-links from being incorrectly linkified, and fixing a minor typo.
Developed by: nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn
Source: https://github.com/coracle-social/coracle/releases/tag/0.6.27
3. Amber - v4.0.3-pre1
Amber is a Nostr event-signing app for Android that keeps your nsec safely stored in one dedicated place while signing events for other Nostr apps. This release improves security, stability, and usability by fixing bunker shutdown issues, adding account export/import, separating relay requests per account, improving encryption/decryption behavior, supporting ping requests, and adding crash reporting. It also cleans up logs/history in separate databases, improves saved-account handling, and updates dependencies, resulting in smoother account management, safer key usage, and more reliable relay interactions.
Developed by: nostr:npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5
Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v4.0.3-pre1
4. Aegis - v0.3.2 iOS & Mac release
Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer that lets users securely sign events and connect via multiple methods. This release adds WSS support for local relays, fixes multi-account subscription issues and subscription failures after relay restarts, and improves overall user experience for smoother and more reliable operation.
Developed by: nostr:npub179e5zckwq9vqsenc8ha9qv7p9vxwq20cq526ac67prts8kc4khmqu50zj8
Source: https://github.com/ZharlieW/Aegis/releases/tag/v0.3.2
5. Nostria - android-v1.0.6
Nostria is a decentralized social networking app built on Nostr, giving users control over their profile, data, and interactions while resisting censorship. This version adds support for Android share targets, integrates the NWC protocol handler for seamless connections, and introduces a maskable app icon for improved device compatibility and visual consistency.
Developed by: nostr:npub1zl3g38a6qypp6py2z07shggg45cu8qex992xpss7d8zrl28mu52s4cjajh
Source: https://github.com/nostria-app/nostria/releases/tag/android-v1.0.6
6. Keychat - v1.37.2+6475
Keychat is a chat application built on Bitcoin Ecash, Nostr, Signal, and MLS protocols, enabling secure, encrypted messaging across platforms. This release improves message handling by fixing NIP-17 message sorting and allowing users to switch logged-in identities in the browser, while adding features like in-browser file downloads, special badges for NIP-04 and NIP-17 messages, replying to NIP-04 messages, and requesting device microphone permissions, enhancing usability, interactivity, and security for users.
Developed by: kcdev
Source: https://github.com/keychat-io/keychat-app/releases/tag/v1.37.2%2B6475
7. NosCall - v0.4.0
NosCall is a secure, cross-platform audio and video calling app built on the Nostr protocol, offering end-to-end encryption for private communications. This release adds Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode for Android and iOS, redesigns the video call interface for a smoother user experience, and fixes Android auto-login issues, improving usability, multitasking, and reliability for users.
Developed by: nostr:npub1qn6wvpmqfnpl3xsu79yvfcgpjz4azdfe5ft220nqjmwqg223fvaq58xsha
Source: https://github.com/sanah9/noscall/releases/tag/v0.4.0-release
8. Vector - v0.2.2
Vector is a decentralized, end-to-end encrypted communication platform built on the Nostr protocol (NIP-17). This release adds the first Android APK, an encrypted SQLite database, Storage Manager, and Primary Device setting for Group Invites. It improves synchronization speed, file attachment and UI design, profile/message shortcuts, and settings polish, while fixing group chat bugs, media crashes, emoji panel jitter, and excessive UI re-renders, resulting in a faster, smoother, and more reliable user experience.
Developed by: nostr:npub16ye7evyevwnl0fc9hujsxf9zym72e063awn0pvde0huvpyec5nyq4dg4wn
Source: https://github.com/VectorPrivacy/Vector/releases/tag/v0.2.2
9. White Noise - v0.2.1
White Noise is a secure, decentralized chat app built on the Nostr protocol using MLS encryption, designed to protect privacy while providing a smooth messaging experience. This release introduces enhanced notifications with deep linking, automatic clearing, unread counts, and localization support. Image handling is improved with automatic downloads, zoom functionality, and media icons in previews. User experience refinements include unique identicons, better scroll behavior, and protection against accidental profile edits. Chat bugs and notification issues are fixed, while UI elements like avatar colors, padding, and keypackage buttons are polished. Under the hood, performance is boosted with optimized group metadata loading, non-blocking user fetches, smarter data synchronization, and more efficient notifications, resulting in a faster, smoother, and more reliable app.
Developed by: nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc
Source: https://github.com/marmot-protocol/whitenoise/releases/tag/v0.2.1%2B14
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