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 a 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 of 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 drop in the summer 2022, and sideways activities in 2023 and in 2024 a decline.

In the last period the number of posts and comments per day is in the range of 4k to 5k posts per day.

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. A sharp drop in 2024.
In the last period the numbers of posts and comments on Ecency is in the range of 4k to 5k per day. Out of these around 500 are posts.

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 a drop afterwards, the Hive.Blog frontend has been in a downtrend overall with some stabilization in the last period. Obviously users are transitioning to the other frontedns and are not using hive.blog as much. It still has a decent number for posts and comments with around 1.5k per day holding steady. We can also say it is a good thing that we have left the initial generic frontend and developed more advanced alternatives, as a sign of decentralization.

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 2k per month, back in May 2021. Then a drop to around 1k, stayed there for a while and started growing again at the end of 2022.
Note that at this point Leo started to introduce the shortform interface. The activity exploded in April 2023, when it reached more than 10k threads per day. Since then, it has stabilized in the range of 3k to 4k daily, but the volatility remains high.

Liketu

Liketu is a photo sharing platform build on Hive. Here is the chart.

There has been a massive spike in activities just recently on Liketu back in 2023. After a long period of a steady numbers for posts and comments at the end May 2023 has spiked up to 700 on one day. Since then they have dropped to around 300 a day in 2023 and a further drop in 2024 to 200 posts and comments daily.

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. Then a drop in the following period to around 150 per day.

In 2024 we can see a recent spike in the last weeks, probably due to the short from videos and the integration with InLeo.

Number of Posts and Comments from the Top Hive Frontends

Here is the chart for all the Hive frontends posts per day combined.

Peakd and Ecency are now on the top when it comes to posting and commenting with very similar number of posts and comeents.
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 but seems to be stabilized on the third spot. HiveBlog is now behind the Leothreads app and comes as fourth.
After these four apps, the others are quite down with a few hundred comments and posts daily.

Combined from all frontends there are around 25k posts and comments daily on the Hive blockchain.

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.
Peakd and Ecency are on the top and very close now, both in posts and comments. In the first half of 2024 Ecency was on the top mostly because of the short form content and the waves app, but the activity there now seems to have dropped and now Peakd is back at the top again.
Leothreads is now also coming close to the top two as well. Hive.Blog is on the fourth spot.
Actifit is down the list as well and some comment bots.

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 3.8k MAUs for Peakd in September 2024. Ecency is in the second spot with 3.4k, followed by LeoThreads and then Hiveblog.

All the best
@dalz