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 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 sideways action and a drop in 2024 a decline.
Finaly a growth towards the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025. Currently there is around 6k posts and comments daily.

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.
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 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 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 recently of more than a week but it is back and running again with around 150 video uploads daily.

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 but seems to be stabilized on the third spot. 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.

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 is on the top, followed by InLeo and Ecency. HiveBlog on the fourth position and then interesting we are seeing Beem, that is usually used for automated comments.

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 4.5k MAUs for Peakd in February 2025. Ecency is in the second spot with 3.5k, followed by LeoThreads with close to 3k and then HiveBlog.
Cumulative from all the frontends there is around 11.5k MAUs that have made a post or comment for February 2025.

All the best
@dalz