Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Eternum is an IPFS pinning service that allows users to store and persist files on the InterPlanetary File System. It simplifies the process of pinning content to IPFS, making decentralized file storage more… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Eternum: Easy IPFS pinning launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Rarbg on IPFS▲704

   2023 · ipfs.io · its alternatives →

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   Arxiv.org on IPFS▲238

   2021 · xirva.org · its alternatives →

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   Cirrus IPFS(Beta)▲89

   Securely decentralize your storage

   2023 · its alternatives →

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   Fully-searchable Library Genesis on IPFS▲452

   2021 · libgen.fun · its alternatives →

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   A Decentralized StatusPage on IPFS▲316

   2018 · dstatuspage.net · its alternatives →

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   FileNation – A simple way to send files using IPFS▲98

   2018 · filenation.io · its alternatives →

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   QuickNode IPFS▲120

   IPFS gateways and pinning for blockchain developers

   2023 · quicknode.com · its alternatives →

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   Decentralized application starter with Vue, Ethereum and IPFS▲245

   Distributed Application Starter: Vue front-end, Ethereum / IPFS Backend - redacademy/vue-ethereum-ipfs

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Infura▲276

   Ethereum & IPFS APIs. Develop now on Web 3.0.

   2018 · infura.io · its alternatives →

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    Numa▲165

    A federated social network, built on Ethereum and IPFS.

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    IPFS▲84

    Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol for Blockchain powered web

    2015 · about.ipfs.io · its alternatives →

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    Ipfs-dropzone, a subclass of Dropzone.js that publishes to IPFS▲109

    Dropzone.js that uploads to IPFS instead of to an URL - fiatjaf/ipfs-dropzone

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Slate▲202

    A file storage network for IPFS & Filecoin

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    A proof-of-concept FoundationDB based network block device backend▲192

    A totally proof-of-concept FoundationDB based network block device backend - dividuum/fdb-nbd

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Local Node.js app to save everything you browse and serve it offline▲406

    🌱 TDF - Tree Document Format - a universal file format for web collections - DO-SAY-GO/tdf

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Frost▲200

    An open API for Blockchain timestamping

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Catalyst▲75

    Private and secure media backup on IPFS

    2023 · the-freaking-catalyst.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Beaker – A browser for IPFS and Dat▲160

    2016 · pfrazee.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Nucleus – A security-hardened, Nix-native container runtime▲40

    Hi HN, I've been building Nucleus, a lightweight Linux container runtime focused on two workloads: ephemeral AI-agent sandboxes and declarative NixOS services. It's a single Rust binary, no daemon. It is not a Docker replacement and not a strict subset of Docker either. I dropped the entire image-and-distribution half (no Dockerfile, no layers, no registry, no pull/push, no persistent storage layer) in exchange for going deeper on isolation and reproducibility. The rootfs is either a directory copied into tmpfs (agent mode) or a Nix-built closure mounted read-only (production mode). If…

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    MergerFS – A Featureful Union Filesystem▲44

    a featureful union filesystem. Contribute to trapexit/mergerfs development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    transferfile.io▲85

    Encrypted filesharing through the IPFS network

    2021 · sedo.com · its alternatives →

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    eth-private-net – Tooling to run a private Ethereum network locally▲140

    Create your own Ethereum private net. Contribute to vincentchu/eth-private-net development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A website that converts any IPFS file to HLS and reups it to IPFS▲126

    2018 · ipfs-converter.com · its alternatives →

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    Pfs – A Git-like distributed file system for the Docker ecosystem▲74

    2014 · pachyderm-io.github.io · its alternatives →

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