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.

Great - With Some Growing Pains... I downloaded the app about 10 minutes ago. It's fairly intuitive to get started even without an intro. Video incorporation is amazing! A hiccup I've found already: Muting/unmuting a video when looking at the profile of a video producer seems to mute/unmute all other videos within the scroll window frame. I found VersusMedia right off the bat. It's awkward to listen to multiple songs at the same time.

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.