Sidecar 🍸

“It’s a browser extension that…kind of makes Nostr cooler.”

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Sidecar 1.16 is out, and it’s showtime!

Grab some popcorn, because this version now plays live video. 🍿

Sidecar already sits alongside whatever you’re doing, so a stream that keeps playing while you move around fits it better than a separate browser tab. Open the broadcast icon, pick something Live, Upcoming or Past, and it plays above the panel. Chat with the host and audience, zap the stream, and save your favorite streams to watch live or on replay.

The rest of the release is the kind of thing you notice by not having to think about it. Mute a person, a note, or a whole thread from notifications. Follow, unfollow, or mute straight from search results and the profile card. Auto-lock can now wait up to 24 hours, or you can set it to only lock when the browser closes. This was a user feature request, and we love getting those.

There are four new themes: Jazz Age, Departures, Ben Day and Turnstile, for 20 in all, and 21 when you count the special edition.

As always, Sidecar is free and open source, with no tracking and no analytics, ever.

https://sidecar.top

Coming very soon to a browser near you…

Sidecar TV 📺

What is it? Stay tuned!

Pairs well with Sidecar. 🪐🍸✨

Classy! 🍸👌✨

Would you believe it? Sidecar is back on Firefox Add-ons!

The listing stalled at 1.10 for weeks while newer versions waited in review. Version 1.15.1 sailed right through this afternoon, in what appeared to be ten seconds!

Now Firefox has everything Chrome added since: 16 themes, a full-tab composer, alt text on images, polls, and several improvements to the wallet interface. Installs from the store update automatically again.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sidecar-a-classy-nostr-signer/

Sidecar 1.15 is live on the Chrome Web Store.

Four new themes: Wabi-sabi, Ukiyo-e, Constellation and Mycelium. Film Noir is recut in black and white. The Accounts tab gains On this day, a line of history for the date.

Send now shows a pasted invoice before you pay it, and any payment of 10K sats or more takes a second press. Relay handling is improved, with added redundancy so profile data doesn’t get dropped.

Client, relays, wallet: every handoff performed seamlessly. It looks easy, but that’s part of the act.

https://sidecar.top

Which Sidecar theme are you? We now have sixteen in total, with four brand new themes rolling out in the next release.

It’s time to class up this joint!

Sidecar 1.14 is out! ✨

Images you attach stay out of your prose. They sit with the thumbnails and are added to the end when you post, so Preview shows exactly what goes out.

Alt text can now be added to your images, written in the shape other clients can read, so the description metadata travels along with the note.

The composer opens into a full tab when a note needs more room, sharing the same draft as the panel, so you can start in one and finish in the other.

A finished poll tells you which option won rather than how long ago it closed.

You can pay a CLINK offer straight from someone’s profile now, and put one on your own. It’s a payment address you ask for over Nostr rather than over the web.

And a critical bug was fixed: the wallet’s Send button had silently lost its function. It works again, and the sheet that broke is now included in every run of the test suite, so it can’t fail quietly a second time.

Firefox: 1.14 is a signed download on the releases page at sidecar.top. It doesn’t update itself, so if you installed 1.13 that way, you’ll need to fetch this one by hand, at least until the Mozilla review team gets back from their extended lunch break.

https://sidecar.top

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Many of our best features come from user suggestions. The next release will contain an improvement asked for by nostr:npub1cn670f663n3ks02jnnlsvd5y88zjnefy8343ykaxs7y3nzzketrsrjwt8a — built, tested, and deployed, all in about an hour.

If there’s something that doesn’t work the way you think it should, or a feature that you’d love to see, drop a line, either here or through the support form on our website, where an email address or npub is always optional.

Because harvesting user data just ain’t classy. 🍸

https://sidecar.top/support

Sidecar 1.13 is out, and what a doozy of a release this one is!

A Square Deal for All: you can post a poll from the panel now, and read the whole tally there rather than being handed off somewhere else. Every option with its count and its share, who picked which, and the winner once it closes. Votes turn up in the notifications bell.

A new Industrial Age is upon us: there’s optional proof of work on your posts now. Off until you turn it on, set per account, at 16, 18, 20 or 22 bits. It reports how long it’s been working, and the Settings panel tells you what to expect at each level.

It wasn’t censorship, it was omission: some clients answer a kind 1 note with a kind 1111 comment, and Sidecar was only catching the first level of those threads. Everything underneath was invisible, and you had no way of knowing. Now you get the whole mixed thread, both reply types, the way it was written.

Because following a conversation on Nostr shouldn’t be harder than following one anywhere else.

And to all six Firefox users, you are not forgotten: 1.13 is a signed direct download now, so it installs from about:addons. The listing on addons.mozilla.org is a few versions behind and has been for a while (maybe they went on strike?), so take it from the releases page at sidecar.top instead. It doesn’t receive automatic updates, so you’ll need to do those on your own.

Stay classy, #Nostr.

https://sidecar.top

This is a classy signer. https://i.nostr.build/ih8GcuyNVKmvYnfBf15upZ.png https://i.nostr.build/MDM2U4DIuRa952SuI5JCzP.png

This is me as a car.

Sidecar 1.11.0 is out, and that was fast! The Chrome Web Store is turning out to be a pretty classy joint after all. 🍸👌

We're up to 12 themes now, plus a new gallery with a live preview of each one before you pick it.

Four are new. Cast Iron is our most based black-on-black look (prompted by

being a squeaky wheel). Metropolis is our new dark mode art deco style inspired by the 1927 Fritz Lang cinematic masterpiece of the same name. (The original Art Deco theme is now named Industria.) Par Avion is a tribute to the airmail era, when world travelers jetted off to locations unknown. And Werkstätte draws on the Vienna art and design workshop founded in 1903 out of the Secession movement, which thrived until the Great Depression.

Two more things. You can now check your relays: which ones answer, which are gated behind payment or login, and which are holding none of your notes. That last one is what you want to know before dropping a relay, and nothing else tells you. And zaps you send finally read as zaps, with the name and pic of whoever you're zapping.

A signer you keep open all day should be a work of art. Something you enjoy looking at, that adapts to your mood, and becomes an active companion to your Nostr experience.

Have you switched to Sidecar yet?

https://sidecar.top

That’s classy. 🍸👌✨

GM and stay classy, Nostr! 🌞☕️👌✨

Sidecar 1.10 is live on the Chrome Web Store! 🍸

Two new themes, Nixie (dark) and Populuxe (light), bringing it to eight. Your bookmarks from other clients, in the panel. Mute lists that cover words and threads, not just people. Balances that animate in each theme's own style.

There are also improvements in PIN-change management, connected-site limits on automatic payments, clipboard invoice detection, and Lightning address resolution from the wallet.

https://sidecar.top/releases

Our Nostr apps page now features 48 different compatible clients! 🤝

Which ones should we add next? Reply here, send a message through our website, or open an issue on our GitHub.

https://sidecar.top/apps

Are you someone who checks the bitcoin price obsessively throughout the day, or do you try to avoid looking at it completely?

No judgment here. Either way, Sidecar’s got you covered. https://i.nostr.build/KYPtZBfAmw1veXq4JPJlzy.jpg https://i.nostr.build/YFLSy5BD0E5h0v3JdYQet6.jpg

https://sidecar.top

built on nostr

Now that’s classy.

Sidecar 1.8.0 is out right now on Firefox 🦊 and making its way through Chrome 🐢 review.

New: Bauhaus, the latest of three classy light mode themes you’d actually want to use! Each of the six themes now have thier own display typefaces. Also added: An account-switcher right on the signing prompt, and distinct icons for every event kind in Recent activity.

Fixed: Readability and legibility have been improved across all themes. Signing prompts can no longer hide behind a modal. Relay and wallet connections no longer hang until a reload. Exported keys clear themselves from the clipboard.

Visit the Releases page from the Sidecar website or download the latest builds from GitHub, if you’re not the patient type.

https://sidecar.top/releases

There’s a classy neue theme coming to Sidecar: Bauhaus.

Minimalist design with clean lines and clear, geometric shapes, paying homage to the century-old philosophy that form should follow function.

This is Sidecar’s sixth theme, and the third that proves that light mode can actually look beautiful.

Good morning Nostr! 🌞⚡️💜

It’s a great day to stay classy. 🍸👌✨

New in Sidecar 1.7.0 – Quick Start Zapping with Rizful ⚡️

Setting up Lightning in a browser extension used to mean: go install a wallet app, figure out how to create a connection string, copy it, paste it into your signer, hope you didn’t drop a character. You probably gave up last time you tried. Not classy at all.

Sidecar 1.7.0 changes that. When you open the wallet tab without a wallet connected, there’s a new option: enter a one-time code from Rizful, and Sidecar receives a full NWC connection — ready to send, receive, and zap. A Lightning address comes back with it. No separate app, no manual paste, no NWC string to lose. Click one button to update the Lightning address in your bio for incoming zaps.

Already have a wallet? Nothing changes — every other NWC wallet still works the same way.

is the on-ramp for everyone else.

Get Sidecar 1.7.0 from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons. 👇

https://sidecar.top

Building on open protocols is classy.

We're crazy…like a fox! 🦊🍸

The classiest Nostr signer + Lightning wallet that lives in your Chrome sidebar now runs in Firefox too!

New in 1.5.0 and 1.5.1: 🌟

Two new themes including a light mode that actually looks good, a timed auto-sign window so you're not approving every action mid-session, and your Lightning balance can stay pinned to the panel wherever you are.

And what will never change: Your keys stay encrypted on your device. No analytics, no tracking, no backend. Ever.

Get Sidecar here for Chrome, Brave, Edge and now Firefox:

https://sidecar.top

https://i.nostr.build/5wmLcqAz8Z4RZphj.png https://i.nostr.build/yOiOSMDtPps8wums.png https://i.nostr.build/g2KgNLCBFws89fOD.png https://i.nostr.build/Qeh2ANDyOlh5uKwr.png

Firefox aficionados, your time has come!

While we’re waiting for approval of Sidecar version 1.5.0, you can download the build directly from our website and give it a go.

Let us know what you think, or what you’d like to see improved!

https://sidecar.top/releases

Did you know that #Sidecar has a feature that lets you restore your follows if they get shanghaied by another client — even if you’ve never used Sidecar before?

There’s no need to panic. Use Follow List Recovery powered by #Mutable, now inside of your classy Nostr signing extension, right inside your browser.

Now that’s a classy review! 🤩

Sidecar 1.3.0 is live in the Chrome Web Store. 🎩

This one is all about keeping your keys safe and knowing exactly what you're signing.

🧳 Full vault backup. Export every account and wallet connection into a single password-encrypted file, and restore it on another device. Your whole setup travels with you.

🔏 Smarter backups for single keys too: NIP-49 (ncryptsec) import and export, plus scannable QR codes that hide themselves on a countdown.

🏷 A clearer signing prompt. Events are labeled in plain language, and anything unusual gets a heads-up before you approve it.

🤼 Multi-account safety. On sites where you've signed in with more than one account, every post confirms who's posting. No client can silently sign as the wrong key.

🪎 Spend limits for the wallet: a rolling daily cap on auto-zaps, so a connected site can't drain anything, even one small zap at a time.

📖 And a built-in Help & Guides page, one click from the top bar, if you're new to any of this.

Update rolls out automatically. Your keys, your identity. 🗝

Stay classy, Nostr. 🍸

https://sidecar.top

Where do your keys actually live when you use Sidecar? 🗝

Sidecar never sends your keys anywhere. They're stored on your device, encrypted, and the key that unlocks them is derived from the PIN you chose. We couldn't recover it if we wanted to, and that's the point: nothing to breach and no one between you and your identity.

The elegant part of that design is also the honest part: it means the responsibility is genuinely yours.

Two small habits make it effortless:

Back up your keys. Export your nsec, an ncryptsec, or a full encrypted vault, and keep it somewhere outside your browser. A backed-up key can rebuild everything, anywhere.

Keep your PIN somewhere private. A password manager or a piece of paper in a safe place. There is no "forgot my PIN" feature, by design.

Self-custody isn't a feature we added. It's the whole idea.

Stay classy, Nostr. 🍸

New on the #Sidecar website:

You don’t have to go to GitHub to get the latest build anymore! 🍸

We now automatically sync every release, including zip/download links and full release notes to the releases page. All files are linked directly from the GitHub repo so you can verify their authenticity.

https://sidecar.top/releases

You no longer need to wait for Google to review the latest build to start using it. Every new official release will be available at the time it is submitted.

Sidecar version 1.3.0 can be downloaded here. To install, enable developer mode in your Chrome extensions settings, choose “Load unpacked,” and open the contents of the uncompresses zip folder. There is no build step.

Now that’s classy. 🍸

https://github.com/dmnyc/sidecar/releases#release-v1.3.0

Stay classy, Nostr.

Just setting up my #Sidecar 🍸