Hive offers multiple frontends for its social apps and users to interact with. This gives the users the freedom to choose their favorite one. Some of them filter out the content and focus just on specific content.
Hive is showing how constrained we are on traditional web2 apps like X/Twitter. I use multiple frontends on Hive for different purposes and really like the freedom to shift between them and select what I want.
Let’s take a look of the posting on the top hive frontends and their individual share.
We all know blogging dApps are not the only ones built on Hive. Games are taking advantage of the Hive blockchain and we are already seeing more of them built each day. Splinterlands opened the gate for games on Hive, and now we have many more.
Here we will only be looking only into the blogging apps:
- Peakd
- Ecency
- Hive.Blog
- Inleo
- Liketu
- Actifit
- dBuzz
- 3Speak
- Others
The period that will be analyzed is from April 2020 till now.
We will be looking at both, posts and comments activities.
We will also rank the top frontends by number of in the last 30 days.
Peakd
According to the data the most used Hive frontend.
Here is the chart.
Note that the chart includes both posts and comments per day.
An uptrend for Peakd up until May 2022 when there was 10k posts and comments per day, then a sideways action and a drop in 2024 a decline.
Finaly a growth towards the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025. Currently there is around 6k posts and comments daily.
Ecency
Ecency has been around for a long time as well. They have a very good frontend as well. Some say it is the fastest ones. One of the best mobile apps included.
A strong growth after the initial transition to Hive back in the summer of 2020. A peak at the end of 2022, and a sideways action afterwards in 2023. A sharp drop in 2024.
Similar as for Peakd a growth in the last months up to 6k posts and comments daily.
Hive.Blog
The generic Hive frontend. It’s open source as well. Here is the chart.
While Peakd and Ecency have seen growth up until 2022, and a drop afterwards, the Hive.Blog frontend has been in a downtrend overall with some stabilization in the last period. Obviously users are transitioning to the other frontedns and are not using hive.blog as much. It still has a decent number for posts and comments with around 2k per day holding steady.
InLeo/LeoFinance
LeoFinance has been experimenting with new things like the short form threads. Here is the chart for the posts and comments.
Some big spikes here from time to time.
In the past the activity on the Leo frontend has reached a high of 10k per month, but just for a short period of time. More often it is in the range of 5k to 6k post and comments per day. Usually more of the activity is short form comments as it has transitioned more towards short form content.
Actifit
Actifit is one of the first Hive apps. It is a fitness app where users share their step counts per day. A move2earn.
Here is the chart.
Quite a steady number of posts and comments from Actifit with numbers in the range of 400 to 500 per day.
3Speak
The number of posts/videos from the Hive video platform.
Some ups and downs for 3Speak as well. The ATH was reached back in January 2022, when there were around 300 videos uploaded daily.
There has been a downtime recently of more than a week but it is back and running again with around 150 video uploads daily.
Number of Posts and Comments from the Top Hive Frontends
Here is the chart for all the Hive frontends posts per day combined.
Peakd, Ecency and InLeo are now on the top when it comes to posting and commenting with very similar number of posts and comments.
At first Hive.Blog was on the top but, now it has fallen behind these two, by a significant margin. InLeo/Leofinance with its threads app has made some waves and spiked on few days surpassing all the apps. It is still volatile but seems to be stabilized on the third spot. HiveBlog is now behind the InLeo app and comes as fourth.
After these four apps, the others are quite down with a few hundred comments and posts daily.
Top Hive Frontends in the Last 30 Days
Here is the chart for the overall number of posts from the top Hive frontends in the last 30 days.
The number of posts is market with white, while comments are with semitransparent color.
Peakd is on the top, followed by InLeo and Ecency. HiveBlog on the fourth position and then interesting we are seeing Beem, that is usually used for automated comments.
Top Hive Frontends by Monthly Users
The above was in terms of activity. What about the number of users, or MAUs. Here is the chart.
Peakd is leading when it comes to number of users. There is 4.5k MAUs for Peakd in February 2025. Ecency is in the second spot with 3.5k, followed by LeoThreads with close to 3k and then HiveBlog.
Cumulative from all the frontends there is around 11.5k MAUs that have made a post or comment for February 2025.
All the best
@dalz
I think it's healthy that we have all these options and that no single one is really dominating. I think people may choose based on a combination of features and community. Many of use will use more than one.
Yea the top one are all close. And for sure I use multiple options, so I belive many others ... thats the beauty of it
Great break down of everything.. I had thought Inleo had 10K MAU.. I seem to recall something like that
It seems that Inleo is the one that is growing the fastest. Although all the others also seem to be on the rise. I need to look into some that I don't know yet, like Distriator.
Thanks for this great update on HIVE front ends. I know all the apps you showed graphs for, and I use all of them except Actifit. My favorite app is Ecency, I find it perfect for mobile use
Interesting stats. PeakD is the front-end I primarily use. When I first joined hive through Splinterlands I mostly used Splintertalk.
Which front end do you use most often for posting this type of content?
Peakd for posting and on desktop ... on mobile ecency and hive.blog. I'm checking threads as well.
Thanks, I'll have to check out the ecency mobile app. I've only been posting on desktop and mobile posting would be nice. Thanks for the info.
I do exactly the same as you and appreciate the same interoperability aspect of the various front ends.
Always interesting your posts and data
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I use Ecency web and mobile for almost 4 years, sometimes PEAKD.
i use hive.blog because i am lazy hahaha :D
I use it for reading on mobile :)
Hive.blog is kinda too basic, too simple, peakd and ecency are more appealing as gui, hence the trend... Hive.blog is ok to read and article but tedious to use as a user
I never knew hive has this much frontend. Thanks to this post at least I got to know something new about hive today.
I mostly use ecency because of how easy and simple it is to use
I love the fact that hive platform have lots of this front-end. It gives a lot of flexibility for the users to explore the front-end of their choice. I personally I use peakd and inleo most of the time
Is Dbuzz still up and running? I never tried some of those. Inleo, huh? cool. 👊😎🤙
Another great report.
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Each has its own unique features, but inLeo and Ecency are interesting because they are fully functional.
It's a good thing every person can select their favorite community and post within it and the people there are more interested in similar content. Your post has always increased our knowledge.
Great stats. My most frequently used front-end is Inleo, followed by Ecency. I haven't tried using Hive.blog before, I don't even remember it exists 😅.
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Another amazing data. Thank you @dalz
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It's nice to have these diversified options. I heard ecency has more feature on its language front, I don't personally use it but I often recommend it to people whose native language isn't English. I love simplicity so it's either peakd/hive.blog for me.
What would be the stats for Liketu? I noticed that sometimes I saw people using it but are they having less users than Waivio in terms of monthly users?
Beem?!! Is there a frontend for that???🤔🤔🤔
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