Nostr Vault

Website is back up :) with new plumbing for a better experience

Https://nostrvault.app

While our main website is down, you can still use the nsite

https://npub120rlujghxmnfz803syfemlv49zu565fpxjrt88wumwk4zjekwhkslyl4dc.nsite.lol/vault/

Coming soon to an iPhone Duo near you!

Listen to learn more about Nostr Vault and its development.

Somewhere along the way we stopped owning our corner of the internet and started renting it.

Nostr gives it back. With Vault posts, photos and messages live on your own phone, and your devices talk to each other directly and to the broader Nostr network. No company in the middle, nobody can switch you off.

It's a home on the internet built on Nostr that you actually own.

iPhone, iPad, Mac: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nostr-vault/id6759681282 Android: https://zapstore.dev/apps/com.nostrvault.app Web: https://nostrvault.app

GM NOSTR!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nostr-vault/id6759681282

ITS TIME TO CELEBRATE!!! 🎉 🥳

Nostr Vault 3.2.0. The biggest update yet. Android is on Zapstore. iPhone, iPad and Mac are in Apple TestFlight review.

Your whole vault, on every device. Copy everything from one device to another over the FIPS mesh. Phone, iPad, Mac, Android. Wi-Fi or mobile data, no cloud, no port forwarding, encrypted end to end. Every account's notes come along, and if a device drops off it picks up where it stopped.

Link devices with two scans. One shows a code, the other scans it, swap and scan back. Your Mac scans with its webcam. No key in the code, and your account key never touches the mesh. Each device signs with its own.

Your devices stay in sync. New notes and photos go to your linked phones over the mesh. Delete everywhere reaches them too.

Lazarus. By

Moving in now looks up and backs up your lists, and finds older versions of them using the Lazarus spec. Lost a follow list? It comes back.

Bring in your whole history. Setup pulls your notes first, then your media in the background. Big videos too, tested up to 584 MB.

New feeds: Catch Up and Underrated. Catch Up is the latest note from everyone you follow. Underrated is quiet people one step outside your follows. Shoutout to

and

for this idea!

Home screen widgets: Live now and On this day. iPad Your space with an icon rail and your devices.

Your web of trust guards more: replies, quotes, comments and live chat now follow your web.

Picture-in-picture for live streams and feed videos. Live now at the top of Search. Videos in DMs. Your feed no longer jumps while you read.

Download it now!

Keeping two devices in step usually means a cloud in the middle. Nostr Vault doesn't need one.

One device shows a code, the other scans it. Swap and scan back. Linked. No private key is ever in the code. Your Mac links the same way. Hold your phone up to its webcam.

Post on your phone and it lands on your Mac too. Your full history copies back on its own. Mac closed? Your posts still go out, and the Mac catches up when it's back.

The FIPS mesh finds each device by its key. Nothing in the middle, encrypted end to end.

Try Nostr Vault today. And take back your data, for real.

Nostr clients should start empty with ties to a few “town square relays” and as you follow based on interest you read the relays from those you follow write to and the people they follow write to.

Good morning. I hope you try out Nostr Vault today.

the web app has a massive update just for you! I hope you like the design and functionality

Web of Trust fixes this

Good morning! Today is a great day to mirror your Nostr Media!

GM Nostr Vault has no spam DM’s If you manage your WoT well

Nostr Vault never rewrites your bookmark list: it only reads it, and keeps a copy on the relay inside your own device. If another app ever wipes your bookmarks on public relays, your vault still has them.

Bookmarks page coming soon

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Nostr Vault 3.1.0 update available for all platforms!

Web of Trust

• My Web has a "Zombies" card: follows who have gone quiet, with a link out to Plebs vs Zombies. The app never unfollows anyone. (iPhone, Android)
• The Web of Trust tab opens faster. (iPhone, Mac)
• The Web of Trust globe is calmer and uses less battery. (Android)
• The web app's Web of Trust tab now matches the iPhone: Open in WoT, the layers about you, My Web and Rebuild your web. (web)

Accounts

• Hold or slide the account picture in the dock to open the account menu. It sits in the middle of the screen, with each account's picture, name and short npub, a check on the active one, and a red dot on any account with something new. (iPhone, Android)
• The account switcher shows how many new things each account has.
• When the app holds two or more accounts, each notification says which account it's for.
• The Vault tab has chips to show All accounts or just one.
• Tapping another account's line in the Vault switches to that account and opens it.
• A new setting keeps alerts quiet when your own accounts tag each other (off by default). The Vault shows account pictures, and a "Switched to …" bubble confirms a switch. (iPhone, Android)
• Each account's notifications also come from that account's own inbox relays.
• Each account signs its own photo uploads. (Android)
• Unread badges count only what the Vault list actually shows.
• An account without a key on this device says "No signing key". (Android)

Relays

• If your account already has a relay list, the app reads and posts with it, instead of with our starter relays.
• A new account picks its own relays during setup: we suggest some, "Use recommended" takes them, and you can remove any or add your own. Nothing is published until you confirm.
• Settings › Relays is a draft until you tap Save. It shows "Yours" apart from "App defaults", and nothing is published without Save. (iPhone, Mac, Android)
• The app never signs one of your lists by itself. Save starts from the newest copy on the network, and a "none" from a single relay no longer counts as "you have none". (Android)
• Your media server list keeps the order you set, and is published only when you tap Save. (iPhone, Mac, Android)
• New installs start on five read relays (Primal, Damus, Snort, btcforplebs, wellorder).
• Signing in with an existing account also reads the servers that account has published.
• The app asks relay.damus.io far less often. It bans busy addresses, so this keeps you from being blocked there.
• The relay restarts cleanly after it was stopped. (Android)
• Live stream "who's live" also asks your feed relays, as Android already did. (iPhone, Mac)

Media

• Delete a photo properly: in Media, hold a photo. "Delete from media servers" takes it off your outside servers and keeps your own copies. "Delete everywhere" takes it off your devices too.
• A delete reaches every server that may hold the file, not only the first one.
• "Delete everywhere" also reaches your Macs over the mesh. (Android)
• The Media tab makes far fewer calls to media servers.
• blossom: links show as pictures and videos, checked against their fingerprint.
• Thumbnails in the condensed and threaded feeds show the whole photo instead of a cropped square.
• A quoted note's photo is shown whole, or as a small square on condensed lines.
• Swiping between photos is steadier, and the next photo is already loaded.
• Setup and the widget say "Media servers" and "your vault" instead of "Blossom".
• "Copy link" for a file in your vault uses http for an onion address. (iPhone, Mac, Android)

Composer

• A photo or video starts uploading the moment you pick it, with a progress ring, and its link goes where your cursor was.
• One Preview button beside Post shows the note as it will look, then flips to Edit.
• Paste a note1 or nevent link and it becomes a quote. Preview shows the quoted note, and its author is tagged so they're told. (iPhone, Mac, Android)
• Removing a photo from a draft deletes it only if no other note shows it. Nothing is deleted after you post. (iPhone, Mac)
• New emoji picker with search and every emoji in one grid. (iPhone, Mac, Android)
• One Magic Paste icon on every platform: a clipboard with sparkles.
• Picking a photo no longer counts as leaving the composer. (Android)
• Fewer signer requests while you type (draft autosave). (iPhone, Mac, Android)

Feed

• Notes open as a thread page you can swipe back from, not a sheet. (iPhone)
• On a thread page, each reply shows a one-line quote of the note it answers. (iPhone, Mac)
• "Reply to" names the author of the parent note. (iPhone, Mac, web)
• The threaded feed keeps cards in place while you're looking at them. (iPhone, Mac, Android)
• 3D objects show in quotes and on the thread page.
• A live stream inside a note shows as its live tile, with picture, LIVE, viewers, title and host. Tap to play. Once off air the tile says ENDED.
• Live stream page: Share as a note (a short "Live now" note), profiles, photos in chat, mute, follow and full screen.
• Live chat opens at the newest message instead of scrolling through history.
• The mini player shows only on screens with the bottom bar. (Android)
• Pull down from the top of a post page to close it. (iPhone)
• A new profile keeps loading until its relays answer, instead of showing empty.
• Hashtag feeds show their names.
• Thread cards no longer repeat the parent, show the right reply label, and drop the lone "…". (Android)
• The note bar has an Event Info (broadcast) button in place of Web of Trust. (Android)
• Live Following checks every person you follow, not just the first batch. (Android)

DMs

• No message alert before a message can be opened, and none for messages from your own accounts. Messages you send no longer notify your other devices.
• Message requests on relays that require you to log in now show up. (iPhone, Mac)
• relay.damus.io is among the default DM relays for new installs. (Android)

Zaps and wallet

• A one-tap zap carries only your words: no more "Zap from Nostr Vault".
• The custom amount screen has an optional "Add a comment" box, empty unless you type in it.
• Bitcoin sweep prices the fee for every coin it moves. (iPhone)
• Bitcoin sweep checks the address is a mainnet address and asks you to confirm. (Android)

Web app

• Compose: photos go in at the cursor with upload progress and cancel, Post waits for uploads still going, and a live preview.
• Posts go only to your own Write relays. The web app no longer adds relay.btcforplebs.com, relay.damus.io and relay.snort.social to every post.
• If you have no relay list yet, the defaults aren't treated as your own relays.
• Write articles and polls from Compose.
• Article reader: Like, Comment and Zap bar, full-screen images, names in comments, spam comments and highlights hidden.
• Live stream page as on the iPhone: sharing, follow, chat media, mute, report, zaps, full screen.
• Discover feed, and Media gets the Following / Global choice.
• Edit Feeds: show, hide and reorder the feed picker.
• Following's new posts arrive live instead of every 2 minutes. A "New posts" pill on Global, Hashtag, Discover and Popular.
• Feed visits and reloads ask relays only for what changed.
• Messages: inbox rows like the iPhone, their face beside their bubbles, one Requests row. No empty state while requests wait.
• Opened DMs stay sealed by your signer. A reload opens only new ones.
• Hold the avatar to switch account. The sidebar names how you signed in.
• Likes and reposts show at once and roll back if they fail, with Liked / Zapping / Zapped pills.
• Repost waits out your send delay, with Undo. Send Delay setting: Off, 5 s or 10 s.
• Zap button on posts (on by default), zap the artist from Now Playing, and article zaps pick an amount.
• Settings: Default Reaction emoji, lines per post, Autoplay Videos.
• Photo and video location is removed before every upload.
• Never Connect (your blocked-relays list) is enforced.
• Wallet: balance up top, card order and empty state like the iPhone.
• Profile: Share with a QR code, full-size picture, Follow changes at once.
• Marketplace: Message seller, and seller links go to their profile.
• The player bar floats on every screen while something plays.
• Media grid draws small kept copies, and video tiles load only when on screen.
• Sign out clears that account's leftovers. Reset Everything is in Settings, and Unlock's Sign out asks first.
• Get the app: on a phone, the welcome screen links to TestFlight (iPhone) or Zapstore (Android).

Mac

• The "Start Vault Automatically" setting is honoured: opening the menu bar panel no longer starts the relay.
• The main window fits a 13-inch MacBook Air.
• Clicking a notification after the app was closed opens its window.
• An emptied write relay list stays empty instead of coming back as the starter relays.
• Relays that don't support fast sync are remembered for a day instead of making the app wait each launch.
• Mac-sized text, working Settings links and fuller app menus.

Android

• Starts faster: the relay is ready about half a second sooner.
• One connection per relay instead of several, and the feed survives short trips to another app.
• Fixed a crash in the websocket connection. The relay holds the phone awake only when it needs to.
• Uses less mobile data: stopped repeated background downloads.
• Less stutter early in the feed, and each note's text and signature are checked only once.
• Gives memory back after heavy use. The Relays screen opens at once.
• The mini player stays off the composer, and the media server picker opens full height.
• Article reader hides likes, comments and highlights from people you blocked.
• Reels and the media gallery respect FIPS-only mode.

iPhone

• iPad: feed controls sit in the feed column header.
• Stopped constant reconnecting while the app sits idle (also on Mac).
• The tab bar no longer covers the keyboard in Search.
• The notification chime mixes with music instead of pausing it.
• Media Servers no longer shows a fake "VPN active" row.
• Smoother tab bar while scrolling.

Fixes

• Stopped background loops that kept downloading the same data (media queue, sound-only live streams, redials, DM fetches).
• A new account's first follow is kept even if a relay doesn't answer.
• A stranger's posts are no longer cut off on their profile.
• Feed parsing and grouping moved off the main thread, so scrolling stays smooth. (iPhone, Mac)
• Fewer signer prompts with a remote signer: it backs off when the signer is slow. (iPhone, Mac)

Get it at nostrvault.app

Just submitted for the App Store again

You can just mirror things…

A new Nostr Vault starts empty, but your old notes are still sitting on other people's servers.

Sign in with the account you already have, and the app brings your notes and photos home to your phone. It only keeps posts from people you trust, so your vault fills up with your own history and not spam.

Starting on web app? Export your notes from there and import them into the app to save relay bandwidth!

Big update to the Nostr Vault web app at https://nostrvault.app

Over 100 changes, now much closer to the app.

Feeds: edit your feeds, a new Discover feed, and media-only views for Following and Global. Write: post long-form articles and polls right from the browser, with an optional send delay so you can catch mistakes. Zaps: zap articles, music artists and custom amounts, likes show up instantly, and you get a toast when it went through. Read: a proper article reader, a music player bar that follows you around, live stream tiles, and Undo on reposts. Wallet: your Lightning balance front and center, with simpler send and receive. Profiles and messages: share a profile with a QR code, clearer follow feedback, and Message seller on marketplace listings. Privacy: location data is stripped from your photos before upload, sign-out leaves no key behind, and Reset clears everything. Lighter on the network: we cut our load on public relays like damus by over 90%

#nostrvault #nv #nostr #update

Always highly recommend that people use Nostr Build Shack before posting their videos! We even made a quick way for you to add the media directly from the share sheet to your blossom relay running in the phone!

This week on Nostr Vault: 32 people posted 430 notes from the app, 8 back from last week and 24 new. Welcome to the new folks:

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Nostr Vault 3.0.1 for iPhone is out on TestFlight.

New:

• Tapped posts open right under the top bar, in the feed and in threads
• Quoted notes show in every feed layout, including threaded and compact
• Link previews and lightning invoices show as cards, and invoices are payable
• Custom emoji in notes and reactions, with an emoji button and :name suggestions
• Live accounts get a red ring, tap to open their stream
• 3D objects render right in the app shoutout
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  for the write up about this
• The threaded feed holds its place after you reply, and re-sorts when you pull down or come back, shoutout
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• Uploads go to your own media servers, with suggested servers to pick from
• Add many hashtags at once
• GIF button is back, shoutout
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Your vault, your relay, your data. Join the beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/kN3zE1H1

Coming soon to Nostr Vault!

Nostr Vault 3.0.1 for Android is out on zapstore. https://zapstore.dev/apps/com.nostrvault.app

New:

• Quoted notes, link previews and lightning invoices show as cards
• Custom emoji: picker, recents, and :name suggestions while you type
• Live accounts get a red ring, tap to open their stream
• Uploads go to your own media servers, with suggested servers to pick from
• Tapped posts open right under the top bar
• Add many hashtags at once
• Simple Citrine choice if you already run it
• Fixed relay crashes when the app comes back to the front

Your vault, your relay, your data. Update in zapstore.

Relays only carry text. Your photos live on media servers, and your note just links to them. So what happens when a server deletes your photo? Usually, it's gone.

Unless it's also on a phone you own.

Put a spare phone on a charger, turn on Kiosk mode, and it becomes your home vault. When someone opens your note and the photo's server is gone, Nostr Vault asks for your media over the mesh.

Photos are named by their fingerprint, so the browser checks it and only the real photo shows. Your home IP stays hidden, and strangers only get the photos from your public posts.

The virality of a media should be determined by the number of times its mirrored across blossom servers.

GM try a new Nostr client today :)