Alphabiz
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.
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中文文档 ·
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✨ Why Alphabiz
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.
🚀 What's inside
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| 🎬 Media player | Plays the mainstream formats on a custom Electron build with extra codecs; full subtitle support including styled ASS/SSA. |
| 🌐 P2P streaming engine | WebTorrent with DHT, trackers and NAT traversal (NAT-PMP and UPnP) — watch while you download. |
| 🛒 Decentralized marketplace | Publish, price and trade media on a credit system; seed-phrase wallets keep the keys with the user. |
| 📚 Media library | Channels, recommendations and a community take-down process with committee voting instead of a single moderator. |
| 🌍 17 languages out of the box | Plus language packs the app loads at runtime, so translations ship without a new release. |
| 🔄 Update channels | Stable, nightly and internal channels served from GitHub or S3, with a remote config the app refreshes on launch. |
| 🖥️ Every desktop | Windows (EXE, MSI, APPX), macOS (DMG, Mac App Store), Linux (DEB, Snap) — and a web edition at web.alpha.biz. |
| 🧩 A framework, not just an app | Fork, edit one config file, and ship installers under your own brand — the same core, your product. |
⬇️ Download
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.
📈 By the numbers
As of 2026-09-03. Live counters are in the badges above.
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| ⭐ 1,215 stars · 🍴 385 forks | public since January 2022 |
| 📦 383 releases | 5 stable versions, a daily nightly channel through 2022–2023, and 116 releases with 100+ downloads each |
| ⬇️ 3,500+ installer downloads of 0.3.3 | across Windows, macOS and Linux packages |
| 🏅 4.5 / 5 editor rating | from an independent review on Softpedia |
| 🔧 22 pull requests merged in August 2026 | security hardening, dependency fixes, least-privilege CI with CodeQL, a release version contract — see them |
| 🗣️ 17 built-in languages | and runtime-loadable language packs |
🧩 Build your own branded app
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//.git # clone your fork with git (a source ZIP will not build)
cd
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/--
yarn make # installers land in out/installers//
- 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.
🔬 Under the hood
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| Runtime | @zeeis/velectron — Electron 21.3.3 built with extra video codecs |
| UI | Quasar 1 / Vue 2, video.js with libjass subtitle rendering |
| Networking | WebTorrent, bittorrent-dht, bittorrent-tracker, NAT-PMP / UPnP, LZMA-compressed metadata |
| Data | GUN for the decentralized library graph; electron-store locally |
| Packaging | electron-packager + electron-forge: Squirrel, WiX MSI, APPX, DMG, DEB, Snapcraft |
| Testing | Playwright and Cypress end-to-end suites, Jest release tests |
| Automation | CI, CodeQL and Dependabot on every push and pull request; credential scanning in the hygiene job |
Repository layout
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dist/electron/UnPackaged/, dist/spa/ | The production application bundles (Electron main process and SPA) that every installer is built from |
developer/ | The customization surface: app.js, icons, platform assets, update channels, take-down policy, dynamic config, terms |
build-scripts/ | Installer builds for all seven targets |
i18n/ | Language packs installed apps load at runtime |
test/ | Playwright, Cypress and Jest suites |
scripts/security/, scripts/release/ | Credential scanning, dependency regression tests and the release version contract |
docs/ | Guides in English and 中文 |
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.
🗺️ What's next
- 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.
🤝 Contributing
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.
🔒 Security
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.
📄 License
Alphabiz is free software under the GNU General Public License v2. Licensing or source questions: .