Open-source p2p software
213 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged p2p, ranked by how closely p2p is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
213 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| bitcoin/bitcoin Bitcoin Core is the reference implementation of the Bitcoin protocol, providing a full node, wallet, and optional graphical interface. It v… | 90 | 90328 | active |
| bitchat A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that combines offline Bluetooth LE mesh networking with internet-based Nostr protocol transport,… | 81 | 36273 | active |
| Anoma Anoma is the reference implementation of the Anoma protocol, a distributed operating system that abstracts existing blockchains into config… | 78 | 33575 | active |
| Anoma Anoma is a reference implementation of the Anoma protocol, a distributed operating system for blockchain interoperability. It provides a no… | 78 | 33575 | active |
| WebTorrent WebTorrent is a streaming BitTorrent client written entirely in JavaScript that runs in Node.js (using TCP/UDP) and in the browser (using W… | 94 | 31424 | active |
| amark/gun GUN is an open‑source, peer‑to‑peer graph database written in JavaScript. It provides real‑time, offline‑first data synchronization with bu… | 66 | 19140 | active |
| ZeroTier ZeroTier is a software-defined networking tool that creates secure virtual Ethernet networks spanning devices, VMs, containers, and clouds … | 78 | 17152 | stable |
| IPFS Core Kubo is the reference Go implementation of IPFS, running a daemon that stores and serves content-addressed data. It ships a CLI, HTTP Gatew… | 93 | 17150 | active |
| Chocobozzz/PeerTube PeerTube is a free, open-source, self-hosted video streaming platform that uses ActivityPub federation to connect independent video hosting… | 98 | 15349 | stable |
| canopy-network/canopy The official Go implementation of the Canopy Network protocol, a recursive blockchain framework and seed L1 chain for launching new interop… | 89 | 14720 | active |
| EasyTier EasyTier is a decentralized mesh VPN written in Rust that connects devices into one virtual network with peer-to-peer links, NAT traversal,… | 87 | 14099 | active |
| PeerJS PeerJS is a JavaScript/TypeScript library that wraps WebRTC into a simple, event-driven peer-to-peer API for data channels and audio/video … | 50 | 13453 | active |
| iroh Iroh is a Rust networking library that establishes direct peer-to-peer QUIC connections between endpoints dialed by public key, with NAT ho… | 96 | 12582 | active |
| Nostr Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is an open, simple protocol for building a censorship-resistant global social network. … | 32 | 12054 | active |
| schlagmichdoch/PairDrop PairDrop is a browser-based, AirDrop-like file sharing app that transfers files peer-to-peer between devices on the same local network or o… | 65 | 11482 | active |
| ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets GameNetworkingSockets is a C++ transport layer library for games providing connection-oriented, message-oriented communication over UDP wit… | 92 | 9946 | stable |
| Berty Berty is an open-source, peer-to-peer messaging app with end-to-end encryption that works with or without internet access, using libp2p, IP… | 93 | 9314 | active |
| Anytype Anytype Desktop is the official cross-platform client for Anytype, a local-first, peer-to-peer, end-to-end-encrypted personal knowledge bas… | 92 | 8884 | active |
| orbitdb/orbitdb OrbitDB is a serverless, distributed peer-to-peer database library built on IPFS and Libp2p Pubsub, using Merkle-CRDTs for conflict-free re… | 66 | 8810 | active |
| Meshtastic Meshtastic is an open-source, off-grid mesh communication system that runs on inexpensive LoRa radios, enabling long-range encrypted text m… | 94 | 8446 | active |
| ntop/n2n n2n is a lightweight peer-to-peer VPN written in C that creates encrypted virtual networks capable of bypassing intermediate firewalls. It … | 62 | 7017 | active |
| uber/kraken Kraken is a P2P-powered Docker registry from Uber that distributes container images and large blobs across clusters using BitTorrent-style … | 98 | 6755 | active |
| mistweaverco/bananas Bananas is a cross-platform desktop application for simple peer-to-peer screen sharing on Mac, Windows, and Linux using WebRTC. It requires… | 89 | 6630 | active |
| IPFS Desktop Suite IPFS Desktop is a user-friendly desktop application that bundles a complete IPFS node (Kubo) with a GUI file manager, peer map, and content… | 94 | 6604 | active |
| grishka/NearDrop NearDrop is an unofficial macOS implementation of Google's Nearby Share/Quick Share protocol, letting Android devices send files to a Mac o… | 83 | 6296 | active |
| anacrolix/torrent A full-featured BitTorrent client library and CLI utilities written in Go, designed to be embedded in other projects. It supports streaming… | 76 | 6122 | stable |
| arvidn/libtorrent libtorrent is a feature-complete, efficient C++ library implementing the BitTorrent protocol with support for popular extensions including … | 94 | 6091 | stable |
| baairon/torlink torlink is a zero-setup torrent finder and downloader that runs in the terminal, aggregating searches across curated sources like YTS, 1337… | 81 | 5870 | active |
| paradigmxyz/reth Reth is a production-ready, modular Ethereum execution layer client written in Rust, usable both as a full node binary and as a set of comp… | 99 | 5833 | stable |
| Bisq Bisq is an open-source desktop application and peer-to-peer network for exchanging bitcoin for national currencies and other cryptocurrenci… | 99 | 5146 | stable |
| ZeroNet ZeroNet is a decentralized web platform that serves websites peer-to-peer using Bitcoin cryptography for site signing and the BitTorrent ne… | 23 | 18776 | maintenance |
| bitcoin-wallet/bitcoin-wallet Bitcoin Wallet is a standalone Bitcoin payment app for Android devices that runs its own Bitcoin node via bitcoinj, requiring no centralize… | 33 | 4164 | active |
| miroslavpejic85/p2p A portable peer-to-peer remote desktop application for Windows built in C#, allowing two peers to share screens, control desktops, and chat… | 23 | 4072 | active |
| spegel-org/spegel Spegel is a stateless cluster-local OCI registry mirror for Kubernetes that lets every node share container images peer-to-peer via contain… | 96 | 3795 | active |
| RevenantX/LiteNetLib LiteNetLib is a lightweight reliable UDP networking library for .NET, Mono, and Unity. It provides reliable/unordered delivery, packet frag… | 90 | 3625 | active |
| Steamworks.NET Steamworks.NET is a C# wrapper for Valve's Steamworks API, usable with Unity or any C#/.NET application. It provides a near 1:1 mapping to … | 87 | 3623 | active |
| Urbit Urbit is a personal server stack built from scratch, consisting of an operating system kernel (Arvo), a virtual machine runtime (Vere), and… | 95 | 3620 | active |
| webtorrent/instant.io Instant.io is a web application for streaming file transfer over WebTorrent (BitTorrent over WebRTC), letting users share and download file… | 76 | 3595 | active |
| NEO Blockchain The C# reference implementation of the Neo blockchain protocol, a distributed network for the 'Smart Economy' supporting smart contracts an… | 93 | 3536 | active |
| Dragonfly Dragonfly is a CNCF Graduated P2P-based file and container image distribution system that accelerates large-scale delivery of images, OCI a… | 94 | 3346 | stable |
| nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus Nicotine+ is a graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer file-sharing network, written in Python with a GTK interface. It lets users s… | 94 | 3182 | active |
| libp2p libp2p is a modular peer-to-peer networking stack and protocol suite, originally extracted from IPFS, with implementations in Go, Rust, Jav… | 66 | 3144 | stable |
| holepunchto/hypercore Hypercore is a JavaScript library implementing a secure, distributed append-only log that uses signed merkle trees to verify data integrity… | 99 | 2917 | active |
| maxmcd/webtty A Go CLI tool that shares a terminal session over WebRTC, letting a remote peer connect via a pasted SDP exchange or a static browser page … | 23 | 2813 | active |
| paullouisageneau/libdatachannel libdatachannel is a standalone C++17 library (with C bindings) implementing WebRTC Data Channels, WebRTC Media Transport, and WebSockets wi… | 87 | 2749 | stable |
| ShareDropio/sharedrop ShareDrop is a web application inspired by Apple AirDrop that transfers files directly between devices using WebRTC peer-to-peer connection… | 32 | 10752 | maintenance |
| FISCO BCOS FISCO BCOS is an open-source permissioned (consortium) blockchain platform written in C++, originally launched by the Financial Blockchain … | 81 | 2608 | active |
| molvqingtai/WebChat A decentralized browser extension that lets visitors of the same website chat anonymously via WebRTC peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted com… | 93 | 2571 | active |
| markqvist/NomadNet Nomad Network is a Python terminal application for encrypted, off-grid mesh communication built on the Reticulum and LXMF protocols. It pro… | 81 | 2538 | active |
| epsylon/ufonet UFONet is a free, P2P and cryptographic 'disruptive toolkit' written in Python for performing DoS and DDoS attacks at Layer 7 (HTTP) via Op… | 79 | 2535 | active |
| Peergos Peergos is a peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted global filesystem with fine-grained cryptographic access control, built on IPFS/libp2p with… | 76 | 2530 | active |
| atomashpolskiy/bt Bt is a full-featured BitTorrent library and client written in Java 8, supporting DHT, magnet links, peer exchange, message stream encrypti… | 59 | 2473 | active |
| jeremyckahn/chitchatter Chitchatter is a free, open-source communication tool offering secure peer-to-peer chat, video, audio, and file sharing directly between br… | 77 | 2342 | active |
| irungentoo/toxcore Toxcore is the core C library implementing the Tox protocol, a fully encrypted, peer-to-peer, serverless communication platform for instant… | 32 | 8744 | maintenance |
| sonosaurus/sonobus SonoBus is an open-source application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a loc… | 65 | 2192 | active |
| dat-ecosystem/dat Dat is a command-line tool and JavaScript library for peer-to-peer sharing and live synchronization of files over the Hypercore Protocol, c… | 23 | 8224 | maintenance |
| pojntfx/weron weron is a Go-based tool and library that creates lean, fast, and secure overlay networks using WebRTC. It connects nodes behind NATs and f… | 27 | 2113 | active |
| oxen-io/lokinet Lokinet is the reference implementation of LLARP, a low-latency layer 3 onion routing protocol that forms a decentralized, IP-based overlay… | 63 | 2092 | active |
| mudler/edgevpn EdgeVPN is a statically compiled, decentralized p2p VPN built on libp2p that creates private networks joined via shared tokens, with no cen… | 95 | 2078 | active |
| feross/simple-peer A JavaScript library providing a simple, node.js-style API for WebRTC peer-to-peer video, voice, and data channels. It works in both the br… | 32 | 7798 | maintenance |
| OpenP2P OpenP2P is a lightweight, open-source P2P networking tool written in Go that connects devices across NATs using UDP/TCP hole punching, UPnP… | 81 | 2032 | active |
| holepunchto/hyperdrive Hyperdrive is a JavaScript library implementing a secure, real-time distributed file system built on Hypercore and Hyperbee. It provides a … | 92 | 2024 | active |
| librats/rats-search A cross-platform BitTorrent search engine for desktop and web servers that crawls the DHT network and indexes torrents for full-text search… | 98 | 2023 | active |
| BiglyBT BiglyBT is a feature-filled, open-source, ad-free BitTorrent client forked from the Azureus project and maintained by original developers. … | 83 | 1961 | active |
| webtorrent/bittorrent-tracker A Node.js and browser library implementing both BitTorrent tracker client and server, supporting HTTP, UDP, and WebTorrent (WebSocket/WebRT… | 78 | 1941 | active |
| teamtype/teamtype Teamtype is a peer-to-peer, editor-agnostic tool for real-time collaborative editing of local text files and directories, built in Rust on … | 83 | 1930 | active |
| UniClipboard/UniClipboard UniClipboard is a privacy-first, cross-device clipboard synchronization application built with Rust and Tauri that syncs text, images, file… | 88 | 1905 | active |
| LBRY LBRY SDK is a Python implementation of the LBRY decentralized peer-to-peer protocol for publishing, discovering, and monetizing digital con… | 23 | 7176 | maintenance |
| denislupookov/altersend AlterSend is an open-source cross-platform app for sending files directly between devices over the internet via P2P connections, with end-t… | 78 | 1863 | active |
| Besu Besu is an enterprise-grade, Apache 2.0 licensed Ethereum execution client written in Java, compatible with Ethereum Mainnet and public tes… | 100 | 1855 | stable |
| deluge-torrent/deluge Deluge is a lightweight, cross-platform BitTorrent client built on libtorrent, using a daemon/client split so downloads run headless while … | 61 | 1800 | stable |
| P2P Media Loader P2P Media Loader is an open-source JavaScript/TypeScript library that enables peer-to-peer delivery of live and on-demand HLS and MPEG-DASH… | 95 | 1724 | active |
| ipfs-cluster/ipfs-cluster IPFS Cluster is a distributed application that orchestrates pinsets across a swarm of IPFS daemons, allocating, replicating and tracking a … | 80 | 1562 | active |
| SChernykh/p2pool P2Pool is a decentralized, peer-to-peer mining pool for Monero written in C++. It combines the regular payouts of centralized pools with th… | 97 | 1495 | active |
| Bee (Swarm client) Bee is a Go client for the Swarm network, a decentralized peer-to-peer storage and communication network built on the Gnosis blockchain. Ru… | 93 | 1482 | active |
| mpetazzoni/ttorrent Ttorrent is a pure-Java implementation of the BitTorrent protocol providing a tracker, a download client, and torrent metainfo file creatio… | 23 | 1417 | active |
| haveno-dex/haveno Haveno is an open-source, non-custodial, peer-to-peer exchange platform for trading Monero against fiat currencies and other cryptocurrenci… | 100 | 1406 | active |
| Holochain Holochain is an open-source Rust framework for building peer-to-peer applications that run on users' own devices without centralized server… | 100 | 1396 | active |
| Helia Helia is a lean, modular TypeScript implementation of IPFS for JavaScript and browser environments, succeeding js-ipfs. It lets application… | 94 | 1354 | active |
| holepunchto/hyperswarm Hyperswarm is a JavaScript library providing a high-level API for finding and connecting to peers interested in a shared 32-byte topic over… | 97 | 1338 | active |
| hemaju/Wireboy.Socket.P2PSocket A P2P NAT traversal tool written in C#/.NET that punches holes through firewalls to enable remote access between networks, e.g. controlling… | 49 | 1312 | active |
| Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc Bitcoin ABC is the reference full-node software implementation for the eCash (XEC) cryptocurrency, forked from Bitcoin Core. It enables pee… | 98 | 1301 | active |
| webtorrent/bittorrent-dht A Node.js library implementing the BitTorrent DHT protocol (BEP 5) for trackerless peer discovery, with support for BEP44 arbitrary data st… | 81 | 1282 | active |
| alanmcgovern/monotorrent MonoTorrent is a BitTorrent library for .NET implementing a wide range of BitTorrent Enhancement Proposals (BEPs), including DHT, UDP track… | 76 | 1242 | active |
| hyphanet/fred Fred (Freenet REference Daemon) is the core node software of Hyphanet (formerly Freenet), a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant,… | 95 | 1222 | active |
| tanshuai/alphabiz Alphabiz is a fully decentralized media platform and blockchain-based marketplace, positioned as a Web3 alternative to YouTube. It is also … | 83 | 1215 | active |
| qtumproject/qtum Qtum Core is the reference full-node wallet and daemon for the Qtum hybrid blockchain, which combines Bitcoin's UTXO model with Ethereum Vi… | 82 | 1213 | active |
| opengnb/opengnb OpenGNB is an open-source decentralized Software Defined Virtual Network (SDVN) that creates a layer-3 P2P VPN with strong NAT traversal, l… | 87 | 1206 | active |
| ldoubil/astral Astral is a cross-platform GUI application built with Flutter on top of the EasyTier Rust backend, providing decentralized P2P virtual netw… | 83 | 1197 | active |
| n0-computer/sendme Sendme is a Rust CLI tool for sending files and directories over the internet, built on the iroh and iroh-blobs protocols. It handles NAT h… | 82 | 1193 | active |
| Corda Corda is an open-source blockchain/distributed ledger platform designed for business use, enabling interoperable networks that transact wit… | 67 | 4077 | maintenance |
| Matchbox Matchbox is a Rust library and toolset for painless peer-to-peer WebRTC networking targeting both wasm/browser and native applications. It … | 68 | 1152 | active |
| cenkalti/rain Rain is a high-performance BitTorrent client and embeddable Go library, running in production at put.io. It supports core BitTorrent BEPs i… | 94 | 1146 | active |
| savoirfairelinux/opendht OpenDHT is a lightweight C++17 distributed hash table (DHT) library providing an easy-to-use distributed in-memory data store with redundan… | 96 | 1145 | active |
| insidegui/MultipeerKit A Swift library that wraps Apple's MultipeerConnectivity framework with a Codable-based API, letting iOS, macOS, and tvOS devices exchange … | 60 | 1132 | stable |
| zpl-c/enet A fork of the ENet reliable UDP networking library written in pure C, distributed as a single header. It adds IPv6 support, monotonic time,… | 84 | 1100 | active |
| ArweaveTeam/arweave The official Erlang implementation of the Arweave protocol, a distributed, cryptographically verified permanent archive built on a cryptocu… | 97 | 1079 | stable |
| fm-sys/pairdrop-android PairDrop for Android is an open-source Android client for the PairDrop/Snapdrop browser-based local file sharing service. It integrates wit… | 70 | 1077 | active |
| SwarmCloud P2P Engine (CDNBye) A JavaScript library that layers a WebRTC datachannel-based peer-to-peer network on top of hls.js, letting viewers share HLS video segments… | 48 | 1072 | active |
| G-Ray/pikatorrent PikaTorrent is a cross-platform BitTorrent client built with Flutter that lets users stream and download torrents on desktop and mobile dev… | 75 | 1024 | active |
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