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Basic Polkadot/Substrate UI for interacting with a Polkadot and Substrate node. This is the main user-facing application, allowing access to all features available on Substrate chains. (by polkadot-js)

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Various cli tools for Polkadot and Substrate chains, including basic node monitoring, making API queries via a cli app and other command-line tools (by polkadot-js)

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SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App

With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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	Project
29	Mentions	2
1,707	Stars	275
0.2%	Growth	1.5%
9.9	Activity	8.5
4 days ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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Posts with mentions or reviews of apps. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-07.

Newbie here looking for help on staking in ledger - DOT Stuck bonded?
1 project | /r/Polkadot | 22 Jun 2023

Side note: It does take time for everything to the validators on Polkadot-JS App to load, but I've never seen an issue on the repo about them _never_ loading.
sign a message with a ledger?
3 projects | /r/Polkadot | 7 Mar 2023

I provided a workaround to migrate a Ledger account to Polkdakot-JS extension and sign from there: 6 days ago - https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/5014
Transaction has a bad signature
1 project | /r/Kusama | 27 Jan 2023

I think it has to do with the wrong network you chose, check this GitHub repo from polkadot https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/4487
How to pay transaction fees using the sufficient asset created by using pallet_assets?
1 project | /r/substrate | 18 Jan 2023

Polkadot-JS UI doesn't support the functionality to pay with a sufficient asset yet. When using Polkadot-JS UI, transaction fee needs to be paid in DOT.
Ledger issue. homa:mint 1010: Invalid Transaction: Transaction has a bad signature.
1 project | /r/AcalaNetwork | 29 Dec 2022

Other people have already encountered this issue on Kusama network, you can see discussions here: https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/4487
accounts keep disappearing
1 project | /r/Polkadot | 12 Dec 2022

Please add the information to the bug report I've already posted as an issue to the Polkadot-JS Apps repo here: https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/8465
Polkadot Digest 22 June 2022
1 project | /r/Polkadot | 21 Jun 2022

If you are attempting to verify the SHA512 hash of the Electron version of Polkadot-JS, note that the package manager base64-encodes the hash. See this issue for how to convert: https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/4713
polkadot.js 1010 bad sig error on MOVR
1 project | /r/Polkadot | 25 Apr 2022

Even though Polkadot-JS App will show an Ethereum-style address, I don't know if it can actually interact with the Moonriver/Moonbeam networks - I'm seeing a few open PRs/issues which make me think it does not work (e.g. https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/pull/5216)
Polkadot Digest 22 Apr 2022
3 projects | /r/Polkadot | 22 Apr 2022

There is a proposal to port the Substrate tip bot to the Polkadot-JS repository, as well, allowing users to be tipped for PRs and other contributions to the Polkadot-JS codebase. https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/7339
How to get off of the Polkadot.js extension
1 project | /r/Polkadot | 8 Dec 2021

Maybe you can find a solution here: https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/3681

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Posts with mentions or reviews of tools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-12.

Polkadot Digest 5 June 2023
1 project | /r/Polkadot | 4 Jun 2023

Did you know that you can access the power of the Polkadot-JS API via the command line? https://github.com/polkadot-js/tools/tree/master/packages/api-cli
Staked Kusama lost? How to restore?
2 projects | /r/Kusama | 12 Apr 2021

If it still doesn't work, you can use this tool to interact with the chain to transfer your balances out of the accounts.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing apps and tools you can also consider the following projects:

polkadot-Js-Plus-extension - A user-friendly wallet to interact with the Polkadot/Substrate based blockchains through a browser.

substrate-ledger-ed25519 - Extract Substrate and Polkadot compatible ed25519 keys from Ledger mnemonic phrases

parity-signer - Air-gapped crypto wallet.

react-cool-inview - 😎 🖥️ React hook to monitor an element enters or leaves the viewport (or another element).

polkadot - Polkadot Node Implementation

extension - Simple browser extension for managing Polkadot and Substrate network accounts in a browser. Allows the signing of extrinsics using these accounts. Also provides a simple interface for compliant extensions for dapps.

extension - Taho, the community owned and operated Web3 wallet.

common - Utilities and base libraries for use across polkadot-js for Polkadot and Substrate. Includes base libraries, crypto helpers and cross-environment helpers.

api - Promise and RxJS APIs around Polkadot and Substrate based chains via RPC calls. It is dynamically generated based on what the Substrate runtime provides in terms of metadata.

hoogii-wallet - Hoogii is a crypto wallet extension for Chia Network