Awesome Local-first

A collection of awesome local-first projects including offline-first and collaboration functionality

What is local first?

Articles

• Local-first software - You own your data, in spite of the cloud, Ink & Switch | PDF Version by Martin Kleppmann

Videos

• Automerge: Making servers optional for real-time collaboration, Martin Kleppmann

Research

• Verifying strong eventual consistency in distributed systems, Victor B. F. Gomes, Martin Kleppmann, Dominic P. Mulligan, Alastair R. Beresford

Applications

• Actual: Actual is a super fast privacy-focused app for managing your finances
• AFFiNE: AFFiNE is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.
• Bangle-io: A web only WYSIWYG note taking app that saves notes locally in markdown format.
• TidGi: Customizable personal knowledge-base with git as backup manager.
• TiddlyWiki5: A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser, Node.js, AWS Lambda etc, works in local-first.
• Volon: Volón is a plain text, markdown-focused, local-first notes app with text-editing keyboard shortcuts.

Frameworks

• DIPLOMATIC: A framework for going from zero-to-lofi. Can bootstrap a simple app in a few terminal commands. Example of how auth and sync work here.
• Verdant: An interesting framework for local-first applications.
• Socket Supply: A framework for building local-first applications.

Libraries

• Radicle - open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git
• automerge - A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrently by different users, and merged again automatically.
• hypercore - Hypercore is a secure, distributed append-only log.

Social Networks

• Secure Scuttlebutt - a peer-to peer communication protocol, mesh network, and self-hosted social media ecosystem

Related projects

• lofi.so: A collection of interesting links and resources related to local-first software.
• schickling/awesome-local-first: Awesome Local-First Software
• zhongkechen/awesome-local-first: Awesome Local-First Software
• radical-data/awesome-local-first: Curated list of projects centering local storage and offline operability.