ArDrive Apps

Overview

ArDrive is a web3 platform of open-source apps, developer tools, and libraries - making it easier than ever for users to exit the cloud and reclaim ownership of their wallets, privacy, and digital data.

As a platform, the ArDrive suite include several tools and services, including:

• The Turbo SDK, which is the first SDK on Arweave to bring users programmable fiat top ups, Turbo-powered upload reliability, and fast data and indexing finality for TypeScript based Web and Node projects.
• The ArDrive Turbo Payment Service that manages Turbo balances.
• ArDrive Core JS, containing the essential back end application features to support the ArDrive CLI and Desktop apps, such as file management, Permaweb upload/download, wallet management, and other common functions.
• The ArDrive Command Line Interface (CLI) is a Node.js application for terminal-based ArDrive workflows. It also offers utility operations for securely interacting with Arweave wallets and inspecting various Arweave blockchain conditions.

As consumer facing apps, ArDrive enables users to upload, manage, and access multimedia files via web and native apps.

We often referred to the ArDrive app as a kind of Web3 Dropbox, on steroids. But it is so much more. It delivers the familiar use case of a normal file-storage app, but comes supercharged with military-grade encryption and an open-sourced code base.

Instead of cloud storage solutions where subscriptions gate access to your own content - ArDrive users can store photographs, image files (including NFTs), PDFs, text documents, audio and video files, and even site manifests and code snippets, by paying once and storing them indefinitely via Arweave.

If you're wondering how this is even possible - you can think of Arweave as a public blockchain that permanently stores the files, and ArDrive as a portal to that blockchain - letting users easily interface and interact with content through a simple UI. Those interactions look and feel just like using a normal file storage app, but carry the added benefits of enhanced privacy and permanent access beyond the life of the organization.

This is made possible by permanent data, the 0-1 invention that people are only just beginning to discover.

Read the Case Study on How we boosted conversion rates via redesigning ArDrive's on-boarding UI and UX.