Primal Top pick
🌐 Web📱 Ios🤖 Android
Fast, feature-rich multi-platform client with Spark wallet, polls, remote login, and advanced caching
Features: NIP-01, NIP-02, NIP-05, NIP-46, NIP-50
Best Nostr Clients 2026
The best app for every kind of Nostr user
Last updated 14 June 2026
These picks are editorial — chosen by hand from our continuously maintained clients directory and re-verified for 2026. We take no payment for placement and nothing here is an affiliate ranking. Need relays too? See Best Nostr Relays 2026.
Every Nostr client connects to the same network, so "best" depends on your platform and what you want to do. Jump to the category that fits you.
Best overall
Primal is the most polished all-rounder — fast native apps on web, iOS and Android with a built-in Lightning wallet and its own caching infrastructure, so it feels closer to a mainstream app than anything else on Nostr.
Damus
📱 Ios💻 Desktop
Beautiful native Nostr client for iOS with live streaming, offline notes, and Notedeck desktop browser reaching v0.8
Features: NIP-01, NIP-02, NIP-04, NIP-05, NIP-10
Amethyst
🤖 Android💻 Desktop
Feature-packed native Android client with extensive NIP support, polls, calendar, NWC wallet, and desktop version in development
Features: NIP-01, NIP-02, NIP-04, NIP-05, NIP-10
Best for beginners
On iPhone, Damus is the gentlest on-ramp — clean, familiar, and it hides the protocol's rough edges. On Android or the web, Primal does the same job.
Damus Top pick
📱 Ios💻 Desktop
Beautiful native Nostr client for iOS with live streaming, offline notes, and Notedeck desktop browser reaching v0.8
Features: NIP-01, NIP-02, NIP-04, NIP-05, NIP-10
Primal
🌐 Web📱 Ios🤖 Android
Fast, feature-rich multi-platform client with Spark wallet, polls, remote login, and advanced caching
Features: NIP-01, NIP-02, NIP-05, NIP-46, NIP-50
Best for iOS
Damus is the flagship iOS client that put Nostr on the map; Nostur is the power-user alternative with deeper customisation.
Damus Top pick
📱 Ios💻 Desktop
Beautiful native Nostr client for iOS with live streaming, offline notes, and Notedeck desktop browser reaching v0.8
Features: NIP-01, NIP-02, NIP-04, NIP-05, NIP-10
Nostur
📱 Ios💻 Desktop
Full-featured iOS client with article support, lists, and advanced features
Features: NIP-01, NIP-02, NIP-04, NIP-05, NIP-23
Best for Android
Amethyst is the most feature-complete client on any platform — if a NIP exists, Amethyst probably supports it. Android only.
Amethyst Top pick
🤖 Android💻 Desktop
Feature-packed native Android client with extensive NIP support, polls, calendar, NWC wallet, and desktop version in development
Features: NIP-01, NIP-02, NIP-04, NIP-05, NIP-10
Best for desktop & power users
Gossip is the reference outbox-model (NIP-65) client for maximum relay control; Notedeck brings a multi-column, TweetDeck-style desktop view (beta); Coracle also runs well on the desktop web.
Gossip Top pick
💻 Desktop
Reference desktop client for the outbox model (NIP-65) — built for users who want maximum control over which relays they read from and write to.
Features: NIP-65, Outbox model, NIP-17, NIP-44, Performance
Notedeck
💻 Desktop
Damus's multi-column, TweetDeck-style desktop client for Nostr — a fast native Rust app, still in beta.
Features: Multi-column, Nostrdb, Performance, NIP-59
Coracle
🌐 Web🤖 Android
Community-focused web client with groups, lists, and advanced relay management
Features: NIP-01, NIP-02, NIP-04, NIP-05, NIP-28
Best for private messaging
0xchat is built around modern, metadata-minimising encrypted messaging (NIP-17/44/59) rather than legacy NIP-04 DMs — the closest thing Nostr has to a Signal-style experience.
0xchat Top pick
📱 Ios🤖 Android💻 Desktop
Secure, private Nostr messenger built on modern encrypted DMs (NIP-17/44/59) with gift-wrapped messaging, group chats, and Lightning.
Features: NIP-17, NIP-44, NIP-59, NIP-05, Lightning
Best for long-form & blogging
Habla is a dedicated long-form (NIP-23) writing and reading client — think Medium on Nostr. Yakihonne also does long-form alongside curation and zaps.
Habla Top pick
🌐 Web
Dedicated long-form (NIP-23) writing and reading client for Nostr — publish articles, get zapped, own your content. Think Medium on Nostr.
Features: NIP-23, Long-form, Zaps, Markdown
YakiHonne
🌐 Web📱 Ios🤖 Android💻 Desktop
Multi-platform client focused on long-form content, curation, and creator tools
Features: NIP-01, NIP-02, NIP-23, NIP-05, Lightning
Best for communities
Flotilla reimagines Nostr as Discord-style communities built on relays — the best pick if you want group spaces and channels rather than a global feed.
Flotilla Top pick
🌐 Web🤖 Android
Discord-style Nostr communities built on relays — group spaces and channels rather than a single global feed. By the author of Coracle.
Features: Relay communities, Groups, NIP-29, NIP-17
Best for web
For a no-install browser experience, Coracle and Snort are the most capable web clients, with Primal’s web app a polished alternative.
Coracle Top pick
🌐 Web🤖 Android
Community-focused web client with groups, lists, and advanced relay management
Features: NIP-01, NIP-02, NIP-04, NIP-05, NIP-28
Snort
🌐 Web🤖 Android💻 Desktop
Sleek web client with subscription model and professional design
Features: NIP-01, NIP-02, NIP-04, NIP-05, NIP-42
Primal
🌐 Web📱 Ios🤖 Android
Fast, feature-rich multi-platform client with Spark wallet, polls, remote login, and advanced caching
Features: NIP-01, NIP-02, NIP-05, NIP-46, NIP-50