Alternatives to MeshCore
Lightweight hybrid routing mesh firmware for packet radios. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
MeshCore
Lightweight hybrid routing mesh firmware for packet radios.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as MeshCore.
Meshtastic
Off-grid text messaging over a LoRa radio mesh.
Meshtastic is the larger, established LoRa mesh project with iOS apps, encrypted channels and position sharing, but it relies on flooding rather than hybrid routing.
Reticulum
Cryptography-based networking stack that spans radio and IP links.
Reticulum is an MIT-licensed cryptographic networking stack spanning radio, serial and IP links, but it is a stack rather than an application and needs clients on top.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Yggdrasil
An experimental, end-to-end encrypted IPv6 mesh network run as a lightweight userspace software router.
GNUnet
A GNU network protocol stack for building secure, decentralised and privacy-preserving peer-to-peer applications.
WiGLE
Crowdsourced database and app for mapping Wi-Fi and cellular networks.
