The open-source Web3 YouTube alternative — a fully decentralized media platform and blockchain-based marketplace.

Stream over P2P. Publish without gatekeepers. Trade media on a credit system.
Ships as a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, a web edition, and a framework for launching your own branded app on the same core.

Download · Try it in the browser · Build your own app · Docs · 中文文档 · alpha.biz

Video platforms decide what gets published, who gets paid, and where you are allowed to watch. Alphabiz is built so that none of that needs a middleman:

• Publish freely. Movies, music, publications and software go straight from creator to audience — no platform approval, no regional lockout.
• Stream at full speed. Content is delivered peer-to-peer, so downloads scale with the swarm instead of one server's upload pipe.
• Search the world. A global, decentralized library that works without a proxy.
• Earn by sharing. Spare bandwidth and disk space earn AB credits (α), the platform's own unit of exchange.

Current stable release: 0.3.3. The official download page, alpha.biz/download, serves these same files straight from this repository's GitHub Releases.

Every file on the release page has a .sha sidecar with its SHA-256 checksum. Portable .7z archives and every earlier version are there too.

The .appx attached to 0.3.3 was signed with a development certificate that has since been retired. Do not add that certificate to a trusted certificate store — install the MSI or EXE instead.

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Alphabiz is designed to be forked. Everything about the product you ship — name, icons, colours, protocol scheme, update channel, recommended channels, take-down policy, terms — lives in developer/. Change one file, run four commands, and you have Windows, macOS and Linux installers for your app:

git clone https://github.com/<you>/<your-app>.git   # clone your fork with git (a source ZIP will not build)
cd <your-app>
yarn              # tooling and the custom Electron runtime
yarn unpackaged   # the application bundle's dependencies (needs a read:packages token — see the build guide)
yarn packager     # assemble the app: dist/electron/<Name>-<platform>-<arch>
yarn make         # installers land in out/installers/<version>/

• Start here: the build guide, then Windows and macOS / Mac App Store notes.
• Before you ship: the fork checklist — identifiers, runtime URLs, take-down admins and community links all default to Alphabiz's own values until you change them.
• Signing: APPX needs a certificate via ALPHABIZ_APPX_* (how); DMGs are unsigned unless APPLE_ID is set.
• Versioning: bump version in package.json and newTagName in release.json together; targetTagName stays main.

The application core (renderer and main process) is developed in the upstream Alphabiz application repository and lands here as built bundles with each release; this repository is where it becomes a product — yours or ours.

• CryptoJS 4 migration with full compatibility for existing encrypted data (#41).
• Automated release pipeline — build, checksum, sign and publish every tagged release from CI.

Have an idea? Open a discussion.

Contributions are welcome and there is a place for every kind:

• 🌍 Translate — add a language pack under i18n/; no build required.
• 📝 Document — the guides live in docs/ in English and 中文.
• 📦 Package — installer targets, signing flows and build scripts in build-scripts/.
• 🧪 Test — end-to-end and release suites in test/.
• 🐛 Report — issues for bugs and feature requests, discussions for everything else.

Read CONTRIBUTING.md for setup and pull-request expectations, and the Code of Conduct. If Alphabiz is useful to you, consider sponsoring the project.

Please report vulnerabilities through private vulnerability reporting, never in a public issue. Supported versions, the retired-certificate notice and our automated checks are in SECURITY.md.

Alphabiz is free software under the GNU General Public License v2. Licensing or source questions: [email protected].