alphabiz

✨ 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

🎬 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.

Platform	Get it
Windows 10/11 (x64)	MSI installer · EXE installer
macOS 11+ · Apple silicon	DMG
macOS 11+ · Intel	DMG
Linux · Ubuntu 20.04+ / Debian (x64)	DEB · .snap (sudo snap install --dangerous alphabiz-0.3.3.snap)
Arch Linux	alphabiz-bin on the AUR (community-maintained)
Any platform	Web edition — nothing to install

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.

⭐ 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/<you>/<your-app>.git   # clone your fork with git (a source ZIP will not build)
cd <your-app>
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/<Name>-<platform>-<arch>
yarn make         # installers land in out/installers/<version>/

• 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

Layer	What it is
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

Path	Purpose
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: [email protected].