swarm-desktop vs fairdrive-theapp

swarm-desktop

Electron Desktop app that helps you easily spin up and manage Swarm node (by ethersphere)

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desktop.ethswarm.org

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fairdrive-theapp

The main app to browse Fairdrive. (by fairDataSociety)

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swarm-desktop		fairdrive-theapp
	Project
3	Mentions	2
23	Stars	20
-	Growth	-
7.3	Activity	9.2
29 days ago	Latest Commit	9 days ago
JavaScript	Language	TypeScript
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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swarm-desktop

Posts with mentions or reviews of swarm-desktop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.

Monthly Development Update – April 2023
9 projects | /r/ethswarm | 25 May 2023

The JS Track released a new Swarm Desktop version and is preparing for the latest bee-js 6.0.0 release.
Monthly Development Update — February 2023
8 projects | /r/ethswarm | 8 Mar 2023

The JS Track has released a new version of Swarm Desktop (0.19.2), which adds experimental support for staking when Bee is already a full-node, and BeeJS (5.2.0)
Monthly Development Update — July 2022
9 projects | /r/ethswarm | 5 Aug 2022

Since then, several new updates were released, and the latest version is 0.15.1, also available from the website. Some of the issues that are mentioned above are already fixed or mitigated, and the team continues to work on polishing the app towards a 1.0 release in the future.

fairdrive-theapp

Posts with mentions or reviews of fairdrive-theapp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.

Monthly Development Update – April 2023
9 projects | /r/ethswarm | 25 May 2023

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Gather, Swarm! video notes
1 project | /r/ethswarm | 6 Jan 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing swarm-desktop and fairdrive-theapp you can also consider the following projects:

bee-status - An app which helps users to setup their Bee node and do actions like cash out cheques

etherjot

blossom - Browser Extension based on Fair Data Protocol

beekeeper - Swarm Beekeeper is an orchestrator that can manage a cluster of Bee nodes and call into their API. It allows various scenario’s to be performed on these nodes. The Swarm team uses Beekeeper internally for integration tests.

fairdrive-desktop-app - Insert fairOS into your system.

bee - Bee is a Swarm client implemented in Go. It’s the basic building block for the Swarm network: a private; decentralized; and self-sustaining network for permissionless publishing and access to your (application) data.

fairOS-dfs - Decentralised File System (dfs) layer of the FairOS

fair-portal - Fair Portal lists dApps compatible with Fairdrive.