Here is how to view all types of Bluesky posts without having a registered account, even when they show the “Sign-in Required” message in the official website interface. As the posts on Bluesky are distributed via the AT Protocol, all content posted as of the beginning of 2026 is available for the public view, and by design there is no way of creating a private/hidden profile on the platform. Moreover, in late 2023, Bluesky officially enabled logged-out viewing via their web interface, making it even simpler to access specific posts and profiles by outside users.
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Using The Official Public Web Interface
The most straightforward way to view Bluesky content is through its public web interface, although if you also want to view content that was labeled as sensitive by its creator, you can skip this paragraph altogether and scroll down to the next section – such works will always be hidden on the official Bluesky website for logged-out users, but are easily displayed by most third-party tools listed below.
In late 2023, Bluesky enabled logged-out viewing, allowing anyone with a direct link to a post or profile to see it without an account. To view a profile, simply use the URL format https://bsky.app/profile/username, replacing “username” with the user’s handle. For example, to see the official Bluesky account, you would navigate to https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app. Individual posts have a similar URL structure.
While you can’t browse a full user feed or timeline this way, it’s the most direct method for looking up specific users or viewing specific conversations if you have the link that points to them.
If a user has obscured their profile or particular pieces of content however, you might still be faced with the “Sign-in Required” message in the web interface. This is where third-party search tools come into play.
Viewing Hidden Accounts & Sensitive Material Without Logging In
Bluesky incorporates a user-driven content labeling system. Creators can mark their posts with labels for various categories of sensitive material, such as suggestive content, or “hide” their content from the official Bluesky interface altogether. For logged-in users, these labels trigger content filters that can be set to hide, warn, or show such posts by default.
For a logged-out viewer however, all content labeled as geared towards adults only won’t be visible using the official Bluesky web application. While the content remains part of the public record, its visibility will require an extra step of using a tool that doesn’t enforce the same default warnings.
The same goes for hidden accounts, which in the Bluesky web interface will give you the “This account has requested that users sign in to view their profile” message, and won’t let you see or browse their posts. Because of the nature of ATProtocol however, most of these can be rather easily viewed using various third-party tools. Here are some of the best ones you can come across today.
Note before we begin: There are two kinds of tools on this list, first the tools that enable you to view Bluesky user profiles and their post lists, and second, tools that only let you view specific posts/threads. The first type will only require you to have a Bluesky profile handle or a profile link to view the posts, the second, a full link to one of the user’s posts.
Best Third-Party Web Viewers For Browsing Bluesky Profiles, Posts & Threads
Thanks to the open nature of the AT Protocol, developers have created a variety of web-based viewers that offer more advanced browsing and search features than the official site does for non-users. These tools are excellent for discovery and research.
• Profiles and User Posts
1. Best: Bluesky Viewer
The Bskyviewer is one of the most popular minimalist, browser-based tools for quickly looking up profiles and viewing their posts, likes, followers, and who they are following. Enter a user’s handle, and you can navigate all of their activity on the platform. That’s it. This is arguably one of the best 3rd party Bluesky content viewers, it displays everything in a neat timeline, works very fast, and most importantly, is an open-source project.
2. Instag
Part of a larger suite of social media tools, Instag offers a generic social media profile view tool with support for Bluesky, that allows you to view public profiles, posts, and media, as well as download them in bulk (albeit with some daily limits in place). It’s another great way to access media on the platform, even if its marked as sensitive by its creator.
3. Clearsky
While it’s primarily a tool for analyzing account statistics like block lists, labels and followers, Clearsky also lets you preview whole user account timelines. It gives you a neat data overview of a user’s overall presence on the network. It won’t however, unlike the first two tools on our list, reveal profile contents hidden/obscured by their owners, and it doesn’t let you view post images by default.
• Posts and Threads Only
1. Best: Blueviewer
Blueviewer is a tool designed to view and share single posts or full threads on Bluesky without an account. This one only lets you view individual posts and threads you already have links to, rather than giving you full insight into the user profiles like the Bluesky Viewer.
2.Skyview
Skyview is an even simpler thread viewer allowing you to read single posts or full threads, provided you have a link to them on hand. You can paste a post’s URL into the site to see the conversation displayed in different formats, such as a nested tree or an “unrolled” view for long-form content. Just like Blueviewer, it will view all content from around Bluesky, including labeled content.
Can You do Searches on Bluesky Without Being Logged In?
According to this post by Paul Frazee, the CTO at Bluesky, as well as this closed issue developer comment shown above found in the BlueSky API GitHub repository, the search on the platform has been disabled for the logged out users, because of bot traffic and service abuse. As of January 2026, this is still the case.
As of now, there are no tools similar to Nitter (which allows you to do searches on X without being logged in) for the Bluesky platform. While tools such as BskySrch and BlueCrawler, which are essentially extended versions of the built-in BlueSky search with additional filters and settings are pretty useful, they still won’t work for logged out users.
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