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 through August 20, 2026. We will be looking at both, posts and comments activities.
We will also rank the top frontends by number of posts and comments in the last 30 days.
Peakd
According to the data, one of the most used Hive frontends. 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 were around 10k posts and comments per day, followed by a slow decline through 2025. The short recovery at the end of 2025 faded during 2026. In the last 30 days Peakd averaged around 2.3k posts and comments per day, ending August 20 at 2.7k.
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 sideways action in 2023 were followed by a sharp drop in the first half of 2024. During 2026 the numbers moved lower again, but Ecency stayed close to Peakd, averaging around 2.4k posts and comments per day in the last 30 days.
Hive.Blog
The generic Hive frontend. It’s open source as well. Here is the chart.
While Peakd and Ecency saw growth up until 2022 and again at the end of 2024, the Hive.Blog frontend has remained in a downtrend overall. Users are obviously transitioning to other frontends and are not using hive.blog as much. Activity averaged around 600 posts and comments per day in the last 30 days, ending August 20 at 466.
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, including another one above 11k in March 2026. Outside the spikes, activity has moved much lower in recent months. In the last 30 days the Leo frontend averaged around 265 posts and comments per day, compared with roughly 460 in the previous 30-day period. Most of the activity remains short-form comments as the frontend has transitioned more toward short-form content. There seems to be some AI-generated content as well.
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.
A fairly steady number of posts and comments from Actifit, but lower than before. The last 30 days averaged around 210 per day, with activity ending August 20 just below 200.
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 was a downtime at the end of 2024 of more than a week. Activity has stabilized at a lower level in 2026, averaging around 47 posts and comments per day in the last 30 days.
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 clearly on the top when it comes to posting and commenting, with very similar daily activity.
At first Hive.Blog was on the top, but now it has fallen behind these two by a significant margin. The Leo frontend still produces occasional big spikes, although its regular daily activity has moved much lower in recent months. HiveBlog is now behind Peakd and Ecency and comes in third among the main blogging frontends. After these apps, the others are quite lower individually. Combined activity across all apps averaged around 8.3k posts and comments per day in the last 30 days.
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 the two have remained close. Ecency led slightly over the last 30 days, while PeakD moved ahead again during the final days of the period.
Top Hive Frontends in the Last 30 Days
Here is the chart for the overall number of posts and comments from the top Hive frontends in the 30 days ending August 20.
The number of posts is marked with white, while comments use a semitransparent color. When combined with comments Ecency is on top with 72k activities, followed closely by Peakd with 68k. Ecency also leads in posts, while the difference between the two frontends is still quite small compared with the rest. HiveBlog is third with 18.4k activities, followed by Scrobble.life, Leothreads and Waivio.
Top Hive Frontends by Monthly Users
The above was in terms of activity. What about the number of users, or MAUs, for July 2026? Here is the chart.
Peakd is leading when it comes to number of users, with almost 2k MAUs in July 2026. Ecency is in second with 1.8k, followed by HiveBlog with 657 and Leothreads with 395. Interesting, even though Ecency is slightly ahead in activity, Peakd still has the larger monthly user base. Across all frontends there were around 4.5k distinct accounts that made at least one post or comment in July 2026.
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