Dev Blog on Avalanche

Android App & Device Linking

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Two big things landed this week: Avalanche now runs on Android, and you can now link a device to your existing Avalanche accounts, like Signal Desktop.

Calling for testers—The process for being a tester is simplified quite a bit now (although still not as easy as installing from an app store) so if you’re excited about Avalanche, now’s a great time to try it and give some feedback!

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Late June Update: iOS alpha

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve made a lot of progress and now have an alpha iOS build. Contact Lincoln if you want to try it out.

iOS

Until now we’ve had an iOS-only strategy. The reasoning behind that is simply that iOS is my (Lincoln’s) personal platform: I have an iPhone and I prefer developing on iOS, so when I wanna move fast I’m going to build what I know. It’s much simpler to build one platform at a time and then copy that work to another platform (especially with Claude), versus trying to add features and fix bugs on two platforms simultaneously.

June Update

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

mostly dictated to my phone, lightly edited:

I’ve made a lot of progress, but it’s still going slower than I think we all have been hoping for. The basic core of the message passing system is there, so you can send DMs, you can add people to groups and send group messages. And all of this is secured using the same open source, audited encryption that powers Signal.

I’ve also spent a lot of time on the ways that our product differs from Signal, and in particular because it’s self-hosted and because it’s not tied to a phone number. That creates a number of divergences that I think are valuable and I think make the product stronger, but also require substantial forethought to make sure they go well long term if we get a lot of users. I think the overall progress is such that most of the core is ready and there are no bells and whistles yet at all.

Avalanche Design Proposal

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Proposal

We’ll start with a secure messaging platform, standing on the shoulders of Signal. On top of that, we’ll build a powerful organizer toolkit, enabling organizers to build whatever they need to activate and nurture their own communities:

People will install the app because a specific action they’re participating in (an action, a conference, etc) requires it.
But they’ll stick around because the network captures and represents the real social connections they formed.

Lincoln has started working on it here: https://github.com/lincolnq/avalanche