Commerce · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Catalyst
Private and secure media backup on IPFS
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Catalyst launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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- 2RORarbg on IPFS▲704
2023 · ipfs.io · its alternatives →
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IPFS▲84Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol for Blockchain powered web
2015 · about.ipfs.io · its alternatives →
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- 5FA
2018 · filenation.io · its alternatives →
- 6AD
2018 · dstatuspage.net · its alternatives →
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Using Hearth you can publish your personal websites, share any file or folder with just a couple of clicks!
2018 · hearth.eternum.io · its alternatives →
- 8AO
2021 · xirva.org · its alternatives →
- 9FS
2021 · libgen.fun · its alternatives →
- 10GA
A secure, private productivity suite.
2018 · graphitedocs.com · its alternatives →
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Plakar▲288It’s still young, but they are shipping fast, and it's open source. Anyone else playing with it?
2025 · plakar.io · its alternatives →
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Distributed Application Starter: Vue front-end, Ethereum / IPFS Backend - redacademy/vue-ethereum-ipfs
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm James, a 17-year old full-stack engineer from Canada with a strong passion for building software. During the day, I work for a California-based startup, and in the evenings, I enjoy working on side projects[1][2]. For the past 3 years, I've been building and iterating on a product I called Horizon Pics, which is a file hosting service, similar to mainstream services, like Imgur. Horizon allows you to quickly upload and store all types of files, from images and video, to PDFs and other documents. The biggest differentiating factor is that Horizon's incentives are much more aligned…
2024 · horizon.pics · its alternatives →
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Encrypted filesharing through the IPFS network
2021 · sedo.com · its alternatives →
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I built a SQLite VFS in Rust that serves cold queries directly from S3 with sub-second performance, and often much faster. It’s called turbolite. It is experimental, buggy, and may corrupt data. I would not trust it with anything important yet. I wanted to explore whether object storage has gotten fast enough to support embedded databases over cloud storage. Filesystems reward tiny random reads and in-place mutation. S3 rewards fewer requests, bigger transfers, immutable objects, and aggressively parallel operations where bandwidth is often the real constraint. This was explicitly inspired…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Drivebase▲98Unified file manager for all your cloud storage with E2EE
Feb 2026 · drivebase.io · its alternatives →
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Immutable cloud storage with multi-cloud redundancy. Zero-knowledge encryption, unlimited devices. Built on restic — no vendor lock-in. From $5/month.
2018 · relicabackup.com · its alternatives →
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Graphite▲197Decentralized and encrypted alternative to Google docs
2018 · graphitedocs.com · its alternatives →
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QuickNode IPFS▲120IPFS gateways and pinning for blockchain developers
2023 · quicknode.com · its alternatives →
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Serve your own content hosted on IPFS from a custom domain
2018 · its alternatives →
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