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Fedistar

Multi-column Fediverse client for desktop

From h3poteto·Updated June 17, 2026·View on GitHub·

This is a Fediverse client application for desktop. It is supporting The project is written primarily in TypeScript, distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 license, first published in 2022. Key topics include: app, desktop, firefish, friendica, mastodon.

Latest release: v1.13.11.13.1
June 1, 2026View Changelog →

Fedistar

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Crowdin

This is a Fediverse client application for desktop. It is supporting

  • Mastodon
  • Pleroma
  • Friendica
  • Firefish
  • Gotosocial
  • Pixelfed
  • Akkoma (Unofficial)
  • Hometown (Unofficial)
  • Iceshrimp (Unofficial)

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Install

MacOS

App Store

Or .dmg is available from release page.

Windows

Please download .msi file from release page.

Linux

Please use .AppImage or .deb in release page.
If you're Arch Linux user, Arch User Repository is available.

$ yay -S fedistar-bin

Translation

If you can speak multiple languages, could you please help with translation in Crowdin?

Or if you want add new language, please create an issue. I will add it.

Development

Prerequisites

At first, install system dependencies.

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev \
  build-essential \
  curl \
  wget \
  file \
  libxdo-dev \
  libssl-dev \
  libayatana-appindicator3-dev \
  librsvg2-dev

Next, install Rust.

$ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

And install Node.js.

Getting started

$ git clone git@github.com:h3poteto/fedistar.git
$ cd fedistar
$ pnpm install
$ pnpm tauri dev

Sponsors

Fedistar is free software. We don't monetize with advertisement. So your donation supports this project.

License

The software is available as open source under the terms of the GPL-3.0 License.

Copyright (C) 2023 h3poteto

However, icons do not comply with this license, © Haruka Kurosaki.

Contributors

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