Amethyst

Vitor F. Pamplona

About this app

Amethyst brings the best decentralized social network to your Android phone. Just insert your Nostr private key and start posting.

Nostr is the most decentralized social network on the internet. Instead of a single website, it’s a network of thousands of users posting to each other's relay servers that can all interact with one another, seamlessly.

Ratings and reviews

The app is fantastic. I would have given 5 stars, but there is a annoying bug. In the background, the app keeps playing a video, silently without sound, nonstop draining the battery. The video is from the video feed or from a note I have seen recently. I can see it pinned in the phone's player, on loop. Even when I end task, and start the app again, it immediately starts playing the same video.

Crashes a lot when loading a user's feed but lots of potential. Nice Tor integration. Nice interface. Could use a feature walk through. I couldn't find a manual, so for a new user onboarding experience, it'll be rough. It does seem to crash quite a lot when loading a user's feed. Not sure if the app windows/limits what it first pulls in, then load on demand, or it tries to load everything. Seems the latter. I have a S23 Ultra with 12/512gb and it would force close. Everything else great.

Amethyst is my "go-to" client for nostr and the client I'm first to recommend to others. Nevertheless, I can't bring myself to give it 5 stars yet. I've frequently tried to inform the developer of a very frustrating issue that affects me and others who may not have the very latest phone... The app slows/freezes when I access any popular profile. I believe it fails because it's slowly fetching all that user's notes in the foreground rather than only a few at a time or with a background task.