- Do you know any other **free/open-source** projects that are not included in the overview yet? (front ends, alternatives to websites, apps, etc.)
- Just create an [issue](https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends/issues) and let me know. I'm always looking for new free/open-source projects to add.
- [Invidious](https://github.com/iv-org/invidious): Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube - Lightweight, no ads, no tracking, no JavaScript required
- [Piped](https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped): An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design - Lightweight, no ads, no tracking
- [pipe-viewer](https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer): A lightweight application (fork of straw-viewer) for searching and playing videos from YouTube.
- [Invidious-viewer](https://github.com/git-bruh/invidious-viewer): Python application to watch YouTube videos through the Invidious API, in the terminal (requires MPV player and libmpv.so, provided by Linux distro)
- [ytmdl](https://github.com/deepjyoti30/ytmdl): A simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with artist name, album name etc from sources like iTunes, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc.
- [Plumber](https://github.com/keshavbhatt/plumber): Local and remote video trimmer, can trim parts of video without downloading whole video, utilizes youtube-dl, allows conversion to GIFs
- [ViewTube](https://github.com/ViewTube/viewtube-vue): An alternative front-end for YouTube, written in Vue.js, uses Plyr video player; supports SponsorBlock, multiple Invidious instances support, chapters
- [youtube-local](https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local): Browser-based client for watching Youtube anonymously and with greater page performance
- [yt-local](https://git.sr.ht/~heckyel/yt-local): Browser-based client for watching Youtube anonymously without forcing javascript (Fork of [youtube-local](https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local))
- [SmartTubeNext](https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext): SmartTubeNext is an advanced YouTube app for Android TVs and TV boxes, free and open source. It is not a live TV client and does not support "YouTube TV"
- [TubeSync](https://github.com/meeb/tubesync): TubeSync is a PVR (personal video recorder) for YouTube. It syncs YouTube channels and playlists to a locally hosted media server
- [TubeArchivist](https://github.com/bbilly1/tubearchivist): A self hosted YouTube media server
- [ytfzf](https://github.com/pystardust/ytfzf): A POSIX script that helps you find Youtube videos (without API) and opens/downloads them using mpv/youtube-dl
- [ytcc](https://github.com/woefe/ytcc): Command line tool to keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube and many other places. Can import youtube subscriptions from Google Takeout and provide them as an RSS feed for your favorite reader
- [minitube](https://github.com/flaviotordini/minitube): Lightweight youtube client with a kid-friendly interface. Can make playlists from search keywords
- [yattee](https://github.com/yattee/yattee): Alternative YouTube frontend for iOS, tvOS and macOS built with Invidious and Piped, supports sponsorblock
- [ytcast](https://github.com/MarcoLucidi01/ytcast): Cast YouTube videos to your smart TV from the command line. This program does roughly the same thing as the "Play on TV" button that appears on the player bar when you visit youtube.com with Chrome or when you use the YouTube smartphone app
- [ytmdesktop](https://github.com/ytmdesktop/ytmdesktop): Cross-platform (Windows, Mac, and Linux) desktop app for YouTube Music. Has a (proprietary?) remote control app for Android
- [Beatbump](https://github.com/snuffyDev/Beatbump): An alternative frontend for YouTube Music created using Svelte/SvelteKit, powered by Cloudflare Workers
- [AudioTube](https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/audiotube): Client for YouTube Music. Plasma-mobile project with an interface designed for Linux phones
- [th-ch/youtube-music](https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music): YouTube Music desktop app based on Electron bundled with custom plugins (including built-in ad blocker and downloader)
- [Shitter](https://github.com/nuclearfog/Shitter): Android, alternative front-end for Twitter, built with Java
- [Harpy](https://github.com/robertodoering/harpy): Android, alternative front-end for Twitter, built with Flutter/Dart
- [Twidere X](https://github.com/TwidereProject/TwidereX-Android): Android, alternative front-end for Twitter, built mostly with Kotlin, in early stage
- [Libreddit](https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit): Alternative front-end for Reddit. Themed around Reddit's new design - Lightweight, no JavaScript, no ads, no tracking
- [Roffline](https://github.com/Darkle/Roffline): A self-hosted offline Reddit server. It allows you to browse Reddit posts (including any media in the post) while offline. It is targeted at people that have intermittent internet
- [Bibliogram](https://sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram): Bibliogram is an alternative front-end for Instagram
- Official instance: [https://bibliogram.art](https://bibliogram.art)
- Public instances: https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram-docs/tree/master/docs/Instances.md
- Example: Troy Hunt on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/troyhunt) and [Bibliogram](https://bibliogram.art/u/troyhunt)
- [Barinsta](https://github.com/austinhuang0131/barinsta): Open-source alternative Instagram client for Android
- On July 26, 2021, Austin Huang (maintainer of Barinsta) received a cease & desist letter from Perkins Coie LLP, a law firm representing Facebook. As a result, Barinsta is no longer maintained or distributed. More information can be found at https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends/issues/28 and https://austinhuang.me/barinsta .
- [Omgur](https://git.geraldwu.com/gerald/omgur): `[Proxy]` Omgur is a free and open-source alternative Imgur front-end focused on privacy. Inspired by the Invidious, Nitter, and Teddit projects.
- [imgrs](https://git.geraldwu.com/gerald/imgrs): Imgrs is a free and open-source alternative Imgur front-end focused on privacy. It's a Rust rewrite of a previous Imgur proxy project, Omgur.
- Mirror of the original repository on Github: https://github.com/geraldwuhoo/imgrs
- [spotube](https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube): A lightweight and free Spotify crossplatform-client which handles playback manually, streams music using Youtube & no Spotify premium account is needed
- [SpotX](https://github.com/amd64fox/SpotX): Modified Spotify Client for Windows (Windows Only) - Blocking ads and updates for the desktop version of Spotify, disabling podcasts and more
- [kotify](https://github.com/dzirbel/kotify): Requires Spotify Account - Multiplatform desktop client for Spotify focused on library organization for power users. Relies on official Spotify client for playback
- [librespot](https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot): Requires Spotify Premium Account - librespot is an open source client library for Spotify. It enables applications to use Spotify's service to control and play music via various backends, and to act as a Spotify Connect receiver. It is an alternative to the official and now deprecated closed-source libspotify. Additionally, it will provide extra features which are not available in the official library.
- [Searx](https://github.com/searx/searx): Searx is a free privacy-respecting internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, searx can be used over Tor for online anonymity
- [SearXNG](https://github.com/searxng/searxng): SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled (SearXNG is a fork of searx)
- [LibreX](https://github.com/hnhx/librex): Privacy respecting free meta search engine (free as in freedom)
- Small and simple meta search engine, fetches and anonymizes results from Google only, has API support, allows redirects to Invidious/ Bibliogram/ Nitter/ Libreddit
- [Lingva Translate](https://github.com/TheDavidDelta/lingva-translate): Alternative front-end for Google Translate, serving as a free and open-source translator with over a hundred languages available
- Official instance: [lingva.ml](https://lingva.ml)
- [SimplyTranslate](https://sr.ht/~metalune/SimplyTranslate): Provide fast and private translations to the user without wasting much overhead for extensive styling or JavaScript. Supports Google Translate, DeepL, ICIBA and LibreTranslate.
- Official instance: [simplytranslate.org](https://simplytranslate.org)
- [InstaLate](https://gitlab.com/concept1tech/instalate): Distraction-free translation for Android, to be used directly from within any app. Supports Beolingus, DeepL, Dict.cc, GNU CIDE, Heinzelnisse, LibreTranslate, Linguee, WikDict and Wiktionary.
- [fb-messenger-cli](https://github.com/Alex-Rose/fb-messenger-cli): Use your Facebook account to chat with your friends sneakily in the command line, it's as easy as logging in, choosing a convo and chatting away
- [Caprine](https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine): Unofficial and privacy-focused Facebook Messenger app with many useful features
- [Neuters](https://github.com/HookedBehemoth/neuters): An alternative front-end to Reuters.com. It is intented to be lightweight and fast, and was heavily inspired by Nitter
- [RPiPlay](https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay): An open-source AirPlay mirroring server for the Raspberry Pi. Supports iOS 9 and up.
- [air-pi-play](https://github.com/rahul-thakoor/air-pi-play): Turn a Raspberry Pi into an Airplay server using RPiPlay to enable screen mirroring on tvs, monitors and projectors.
- Available to download on the Apple AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hackers-for-hacker-news/id603503901
### Other services
- [MediathekViewWeb](https://github.com/mediathekview/mediathekviewweb): Video content of German public-service television broadcasters (e.g. ARD, ZDF)
- Official instance: [mediathekviewweb.de](https://mediathekviewweb.de)
- [NoPaste](https://github.com/bokub/nopaste): NoPaste is an open-source website similar to Pastebin where you can store any piece of code, and generate links for easy sharing
- [PrivateBin](https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin): Zero knowledge encrypted paste-bin. A minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES
- [vaultwarden](https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden): Password manager. Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs
- [ArchiveBox](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox): Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more
- [Privacy Redirect](https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect): A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram & Google Maps requests to privacy friendly alternatives
- [libredirect](https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect): A web extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends and backends. Actively maintained fork of Privacy Redirect that supports Youtube, Youtube Music, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Imgur, Reddit, Searx, Google Translate, Google Maps, Wikipedia, and Medium
- [Farside](https://github.com/benbusby/farside): Farside provides links that automatically redirect to working instances of privacy-oriented alternative frontends, such as Nitter, Libreddit, etc. This allows for users to have more reliable access to the available public instances for a particular service, while also helping to distribute traffic more evenly across all instances and avoid performance bottlenecks and rate-limiting.
- [UntrackMe](https://framagit.org/tom79/nitterizeme): UntrackMe transforms Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Reddit and Medium and Wikipedia links to links of open source, privacy friendly front-ends. Converts Google Maps links to OpenStreetMap links. Removes tracking parameters from any url. Then delegates the action to other apps that are capable of handling them. (Android app)
- [Pluja's Awesome Privacy](https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy): A curated list of services and alternatives that respect your privacy because privacy matters.
- Note: The source code of Outline.com is not available under a free/open-source license.
- [Youtube Vanced](https://github.com/YTVanced): Youtube replacement app for the Android platform: YouTube Vanced is the stock Android YouTube app, but better. It includes adblocking, true amoled dark mode and a lot more. Use the Vanced Manager to install YouTube Vanced with ease.
- Official website with install instructions: https://vancedapp.com
- Note: The source code of Youtube Vanced is not available under a free/open-source license.
- For an explanation about the origin of Youtube Vanced see here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Vanced/comments/o3xm9m/if_youtube_vanced_isnt_open_source_and_doesnt/h2ec7wf/
This overview originally included three alternative front-ends: Invidious (for YouTube), Bibliogram (for Instagram) and Nitter (for Twitter). Therefore it was named `alternative front-ends`. As more projects have been added to the repository, the listed projects partially left the scope of *alternative front-ends*.
For example, `youtube-dl` is not a front-end, but can be generally described as an open source project that interacts with the internet platform Youtube.
Therefore the name `alternative front-ends` does not capture the full scope of the listed projects anymore. Maybe this repository will be renamed in the future to better reflect the larger scope. A possible name might be `open-source-alternatives` or something similar.
