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 at 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 slow decline up until September 2025 to around 4k posts and comments, and a sharp increase afterwards, at the end of 2025 to 7k, and a drop again in 2024 to around 5k posts and comments in the last period.
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, followed by a sharp drop in the first half of 2024. At the end of 2024 there is a growth again with a peak around 6k posts and comments, a pull back in 2025, and interesting another growth in the last month, back to 6k.
Ecency is showing more resilience towards a declining in the activity.
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 again at the end of 2024, the Hive.Blog frontend has been in a downtrend overall with some stabilization in the last period. Obviously users are transitioning to the other frontends and are not using hive.blog as much. It still has a decent number for posts and comments with around 1.2k 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 at the end of 2024 of more than a week. In 2025 overall the activity seems to be down, just bellow 100 per day.
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 a lot. 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.
##Peakd VS Ecency
The chart for the top two frontends looks like this:
A very close number between these two. At first PeakD was in the lead, but Ecency caught up back in 2023 and since then these two are very close. In the very last month, the numbers from Ecency even surpassed Peakd for a short period of time.
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. When combined with comments Leothreads is on the top, followed by Ecency and Peakd. In terms of posts Peakd is on the top with a very slight margin before Ecency, but Ecency has more comments, and combined Ecency is in a small lead in front of Peakd.
HiveBlog on the fourth position and then comes the rest of the apps.
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 3.9k MAUs for Peakd in July 2025. Ecency is in the second spot with 3.2k, followed by HiveBlog with 1.4k and then Leothreads with 1.3k. Interesting even though Leothreads is on top in terms of activity it is on the fourth spot even behind HiveBlog when it comes to users.
Cumulative from all the frontends there is around 13k MAUs that have made a post or comment for the last 30 days.
All the best
@dalz
Do you feel like it would be worthwhile for me to look at word count per platform used in my word count related posts? Should be easy enough for me to do in my next post if you think it would be interesting.
Understanding that some platforms favor shorter form content and fewer words, I think it would be interesting to see if rewards relate to the platform the user ... uses (I don't think so) - or the content itself.
Yea sure, that would be interesting!
I have published some of the data, but I have excluded LeoThreads, perhaps for the next iteration I will bring it back into the data set, but as I am pulling all the post content from hivesql, it may prove to be too long a query.
I should probably set up a script to get the data straight from an API node instead.
I expect I'll pull the data tomorrow, will take a look and add a section to my PowerBI :)
Those LEO spikes.. lol
Does not look natural at all in my own opinion.
Yea it is really volatile.... in the past this usualy happened when there was some update, but not sure about the latest ones
fear / greed index? :P
A good index of that would be power ups vs power downs along with price change.
I believe there's a few people who post in the stats community that cover off that data on a chain level. It is probably available on a per user basis, but the data set would be rather large to apply at an author level, weekly, for a post by post level, which is what I have an analytical interest in. (Link to my post from last week on the data)
Cool! Love how Hive frontends let us focus on different content. Freedom rules! 😎
ecency is going pretty well, maybe eating a few peakd users
hive.blog is just too old looking, people want something more modern
Yup. I use peakd and ecency the most. I do like how the wallet looks on liketu, tho. hmmmmmmm, i never used Inleo.. 😉😎🤙
Thanks for this great post. It's basically a perfect summary of the best front ends in this ecosystem. The only one on your list I've never used is Actifit; I've tried all the others. My current favorites are the first two on your list: PeakD and Ecency. I use PeakD mainly for building posts, while Ecency is for reading, voting, and commenting from my phone. The graph you made of PEAKD vs. ECENCY is gorgeous. I feel a bit sorry for Hive.blog, the first front end I used, but it was predictable that it would lose out in comparison to the other platforms. !HBIT
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Hive’s multi-frontend approach gives us real freedom, I post from Ecency, explore on PeakD, and thread on InLeo. Web2 can't compete with that.