Lightning App Directory

Introduction

This page lists wallets and Lightning apps (“lapps”) built on LND, along with several compatible apps built on Eclair and c-lightning.

Wallets

• Lightning App by Lightning Labs: a cross-platform wallet powered by lnd. See the announcement for desktop and mobile for more information. Checkout the code and find the releases for desktop, Android and iOS.
  

• Zap Wallet by Jack Mallers: a mobile and desktop app focused on ease of use and general user experience. Check out the Zap website or read the code on GitHub.
  

• HTLC.me: Hosted wallet great for quickly trying out Lightning payments on the Bitcoin testnet.
• ZeusLN: A mobile Bitcoin app for Lightning Network Daemon (lnd) node operators. Runs on Android and iOS.
• Breez: Breez is a Lightning Network mobile client and a hub. It provides a platform for simple, instantaneous bitcoin payments. Supports Android and iOS.

Integrations

• Bitrefill: Recharge prepaid phone cards with Bitcoin and Litecoin
• Y’alls: Read and write articles, with Lightning Network micropayments
  
• LNCast: Lightning Network Podcasts
• Bard: Simple paywall for watching a music visualizer
• HodlHodl.com: Peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange with Lightning integration
• Zigzag.io: Cryptocurrency trading using Lightning (custodial)
• lntxbot Lightning integration to Telegram with tipping, send and receive and satellite API usage (custodial)
• paywall.link Put any website behind a paywall and pay with Lightning

Lightning network explorers

• 1ml.com
• explore.casa
• explorer.acinq.co
• ln.alhur.es

Protocol Services

• Lightning Faucet: Receive free testnet Bitcoin
• lnd.fun: Panel for webmasters to manage their full lightning node
  

Developer Tools

• WooCommerce Plugin: Gateway plugin to accept Lightning payments at WooCommerce stores
• LND Explorer: demo for a web interface for LND. Code on Github
• Light-weight LND Dashboard: A lightweight web client for LND
• LightningJ: A project intending to simplify the integration of Lightning implementations for Java developers, containing simple to use API implementations and converters between JSON and XML.
• Opencart Plugin: Bitcoin Lightning Network Payment Gateway for Opencart. Code on Github.

Tipping

• LightningTip: Library to accept tips via the Lightning Network
• Slack tipbot: Custodial Slack tipbot
• LightningPay-PHP: PHP plugin for eCommerce website to add Pay by Lightning to accept order payments via the Lightning Network.
• Tippin.me LN tips integrated to Twitter (custodial)
• Lightning Gifts Create fee-less Bitcoin gift vouchers to share with friends, family, and your haters. Powered by the Lightning Network ⚡

Gaming

• Lightning Gem: Betting game using Lightning for payments
• Kriptode.com Lightning based games and more.
• Satoshis.place Internet graffiti paid with Lightning

Physical applications

• Ben Arc’s various projects based on Arduino, ESP32 and the M5Stack.
  • M5StackSats: A bitcoin point of sale terminal using the ESP32 based M5Stack
  • Physically faucet: A Lightning Network bitcoin faucet using the http://lightning.gifts api
  • Flux capacitor: A dynamic Lightning Network point of sale device
  • The Fossa: The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) ATM, dump that stinky loose fiat change for glorious sats!
• LightningATM: This ATM accepts coins and sends bitcoin over the Lightning Network
• Distributed Charge: Electric Car Charging by Making Real Time Machine to Machine Micropayments Over The Bitcoin Lightning Network

Eclair Lapps

Eclair is a Scala implementation of the Lightning Network built by ACINQ

• Eclair app: on desktop and Android
• Starblocks: Virtual coffee shop
• Strike: Stripe-like Lightning payment aggregator API (custodial)
• Lightning Conductor: A service for converting Lightning balances to BTC and back without having to close or open channels, currently on testnet.

c-Lightning Lapps

c-lightning is a specification-compliant LN implementation in C, under the Elements Project

• Blockstream store (mainnet): Bitcoin paraphernalia that can only be purchased over LN.
• Lightning Charge: A drop-in solution for accepting lightning payments
• WooCommerce Plugin: Original c-lightning version of the Gateway plugin to accept Lightning payments at WooCommerce stores, based on Lightning Charge.
• Week of Lapps built on Lightning Charge by Nadav Idgi.
  • Nanopos: A simple point-of-sale system for fixed-price goods
  • FileBazaar: A system for selling files such as documents, images, and videos
  • Lightning Publisher for WordPress: A patronage model for unlocking WordPress blog entries
  • Paypercall: A programmer’s toolkit for Lightning that enables micropayments for individual API calls
  • Ifpaytt: An extension of paypercall that allows web developers using IFTTT to request payments for service usage
  • Lightning Jukebox: A fun demo that reimagines a classic technology for the Lightning Network
  • Nanotip: The simple tip jar, rebuilt to issue Lightning Network invoices
• Elaine Ou’s projects:
  • Lightning-powered vending machine
  • Bitcoin-payable Twitter bot with Lightning Charge
  • Twitter relay for Lightning JSON-RPC interface

Requests

If you would like a Lightning app considered for this page, please send a link and a one sentence description to [email protected]. If applicable, please specify which Lightning implementation it is built on.