Project · Groupware
Word Condenser
- How you run it
- In Moss
- Holochain version
- 0.6.1
- Activity
- maintained
- Checked
- 29 October 2026
What is Word Condenser and what is it for?
Word Condenser is a Holochain app for settling on words together, letting a group collect and agree on the terms, names and sayings that only mean something to the people who share them. It exists to give that shared vocabulary a place of its own instead of leaving it scattered through everyday talk.
Word Condenser describes itself as a Holochain app built to collectively condense the terms and sayings that sit unformed in a group's shared language. The project explains the idea with a comparison: just as glasses condense water droplets out of warm, humid air, the app is meant to draw out words that are already present but not yet named.
In human terms, this is vocabulary that belongs to a group rather than to a dictionary — the nicknames, half-jokes and working terms people understand without ever writing them down. The app gives those words their own shared place, so they stay with the people who use them.
One reading of the intent: a group haggles over what to call something they do together, and the app is where the settled term is kept and shaped further. The README opens with a poem about language and satellites, then points readers onward for download instructions.
How to get it
In Moss
- The project's README points to its download page, wordcondenser.com/download, and says to follow the instructions there to download and install the latest version.
- That page did not respond to a live check during this review (22 September 2026), so the download itself could not be confirmed.
Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matthme/wordcondenser/develop/README.md
Questions people ask
- What kind of app is Word Condenser?
- It is a Holochain app, described by its project as a way for a collective to condense words and sayings that are latently dissolved in shared human language. source
- Where can I download Word Condenser?
- The README links to wordcondenser.com/download for download and installation instructions; that page did not respond to a live check during this review. source
From 2 public sources, checked 23 September 2026.
Try Word Condenser
- Code on GitHubOpen on GitHub ↗Last change 21 July 2026.
- Websitewordcondenser.com ↗
- Release0.3.2Published 21 July 2026.
- In Moss's tool library (Moss 0.15)lightningrodlabs.org/weave-tool-curation/0.15/curations-0.15.json ↗
Details & sources
- Source
- matthme/wordcondenser
Evidence
- Release
- github.com/matthme/wordcondenser/releases/tag/0.3.2shipped in a release · seen since 20 October 2026 · github.release@1
- Last change
- api.github.com/repos/matthme/wordcondenserlisted by a third party · seen since 20 October 2026 · github.repository@1
- Activity
- api.github.com/repos/matthme/wordcondenserlisted by a third party · seen since 20 October 2026 · liveness@1
- Moss
- lightningrodlabs.org/weave-tool-curation/0.15/curations-0.15.jsonlisted by a third party · seen since 20 October 2026 · moss.listed@1
Compatibility
- hdk
- 0.6.1 · Cargo.toml @ 84e426c
- hdi
- 0.7.1 · Cargo.toml @ 84e426c
- holochain-client
- 0.20.6 · ui/package.json @ 84e426c
- happ.yaml
- present · workdir/happ.yaml @ 84e426c
- web-happ.yaml
- present · workdir/web-happ.yaml @ 84e426c