awesome urbit

A curated collection of projects and tools in the Urbit ecosystem.

Applications

• Ahoy: Ship monitoring toolbox.
  • ~mister-dister-midden-fabler/ahoy
• Albums: A photo sharing app.
  • ~topdem/albums
• Astrolabe: Your guide to the Urbit constellations. Search for ships, view their info, and explore the Star Chart.
  • ~dister-midlev-mindyr/astrolabe
• Board: A tapestry of boards.
  • ~ridlyd/board
• Canvas: Collaborative pixel art.
  • ~dister-norsyr-torryn/canvas
• Chess: Peer-to-peer chess over Urbit.
  • ~finmep-lanteb/chess
• Cliff: Urbit file system explorer.
  • ~paldev/cliff
• Common Blog: Self-hosted writing and publishing.
  • ~dister-bonbud-macryg/blog
• Emissary: Allows one Urbit to designate another Urbit as its representative.
  • ~magbel/emissary
• Face: See your friends.
  • ~paldev/face
• Fafa: 2FA otp authenticator app.
  • ~paldev/fafa
• Fount: Desk hash monitoring tool.
  • ~mister-dister-midden-fabler/fount
• Fund: A sovereign platform for peer-to-peer economic activity with on-chain settlement and trusted identity assessment of work completion..
  • ~tocwex/fund
• Gora (ピタゴラ装置): A Proof of Attendance Protocol for Urbit.
  • ~ridlyd/gora
• Hawk: A programmable interface.
  • ~dister-migrev-dolseg/hawk
• Hits: A leaderboard for local app discovery.
  • ~bitdeg/hits
• Hodl: A portfolio for all that you hodl.
  • ~hodler-datder-sonnet/hodl
• Hydra: Live-coding video synth.
  • ~tolmud-tobtud/hydra
• Micro: Create, share, and explore micro apps.
  • ~ridlyd/micro
• Million $ Urbit App: Uncharted territory available for purchase!
  • ~paldev/million
• Page: Post webpages to the public internet.
  • ~hanfel-dovned/page
• Pals: Friendlist for peer discovery.
  • ~paldev/pals
• Picture: A picture frame for your ship.
  • ~paldev/picture
• Radio: An app for urbit disc jockeys.
  • ~nodmyn-dosrux/radio
• Rumors: Anonymous gossip from friends of friends.
  • ~paldev/rumors
• Scratch: For writing and sharing bits of text.
  • ~dister-nocsyx-lassul/scratch
• Silo: An S3 storage manager.
  • ~dister-nocsyx-lassul/silo
• Terminal: A web interface to your Urbit's command line.
  • ~mister-dister-dozzod-dozzod/webterm
• Tlon: Start, host, and cultivate communities; own your communications; organize your resources; share documents.
  • ~sogryp-dister-dozzod-dozzod/groups
• Turf: Build a world with your friends, explore, and hang out.
  • ~pandux/turf
• Verse: A random bible verse every day.
  • ~paldev/verse
• Vita: Monitor your app distributions.
  • ~nodmyn-dosrux/vita
• Wiki: Encyclopedia Urbitica.
  • ~holnes/wiki

Developer Tools

• Anchor: A self-hosted StarTram service.
• create-landscape-app: Create a simple application for Urbit with just a few commands!
• Click: Thin-client for interacting with your running Urbit through local sockets.
• desk-skeleton: A basic desk skeleton and dependency management approach for Urbit app development.
• go-urbit: Allows golang applications running as moons to connect to an Urbit ship over Ames. (Good for IoT.)
• JavaScript HTTP API
• PenpAI: AI-based pen-pal app for Urbit.
• Sigils:
  • ASCII Sigil Generator: A tool for generating ASCII sigils on the command line.
  • Sigil Generator: A tool for generating PNG & SVG sigils in different colors and sizes.
• tree-sitter-hoon: Tree-sitter grammar for Hoon.
• Urbit FAQ: A trove of obscure Urbit information that's still working its way into the docs.
• Urbit Wordlists: Wordlists for Urbit phonemes, plus wordlists for planets with interesting sigils.
• Gonetia: A simple command-line utility for generating a list of planet names issuable from an Urbit star.

IDE plugins

• VSCode:
• Language Support: source
• Rune Documentation: source
• IntelliJ IDEA: source

Hoon libraries.

• manx-utils: Utilities for working with $manx (dynamic XML nodes)
• Urbit Markdown: Serialize and deserialize GitHub-flavored Markdown.

Noun libraries

• Pynoun

Sail

• gin and tonic: 2 utilities for making Sail development easier: auto-sync and auto-refresh.
• Mast: A library for building fully dynamic Sail frontends.
• Rudder: A framework for Sail development (Hoon-only HTML).

HTTP APIs

• Deno
• Elisp
• Elm
• Go
• Haskell
• Java
• Kotlin
• Python
• Ruby
• Rust
• Typescript

Educational Resources

Nock

• Nock on docs.urbit.org.
• NockPU: Experimental hardware for running Nock directly.

Hoon

• Why Hoon? on docs.urbit.org.
• Hoon Cheatsheet: Quick lookup of runes, auras, operators, and syntax.
• Hoon School: Learn the basics of Hoon, Urbit’s high-level systems programming language.

Gall

• App School I: Learn to build with Gall, Urbit’s userspace app framework.
• App School II: Build a full-stack Gall app with a Hoon backend and React frontend.

Arvo

• Core Academy: Prepares the Hoon developer to work directly on the Arvo kernel.

Operations

• Bridge: Web interace for interacting with Azimuth PKI.
• GroundSeg: Software tool for managing / accessing multiple Urbit ships (see here).
• Native Planet: Hardware for self-hosting your Urbit.
• Network Explorer: Explore Urbit network state & stats.

Infrastructure

• Azimuth: Urbit PKI contract.
• Bridge: Source for Bridge web interface.
• UIPs: Track proposals for improvements to the Urbit ecosystem.
• Urbit: Come browse the source code yourself!
• urcrypt: Cryptography routines used by Urbit jets.
• Vere: The original Urbit virtual machine, written in C.
  • Dockerhub images available here.