alternative-front-ends

Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (e.g. YouTube or Twitter)

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Overview

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• Invidious: Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

  • Invidious instances
  • Official instance: https://invidio.us
  • Example: Troy Hunt on Youtube and Invidious

• Youtube-viewer: Lightweight YouTube client for Linux

• Yotter: Youtube and Twitter with privacy

  • Yotter instances
  • Official instance: yotter.xyz

• Nitter: Alternative Twitter front-end

  • Nitter instances
  • Official instance: nitter.net
  • Example: Troy Hunt on Twitter and Nitter

• Bibliogram: Bibliogram is an alternative front-end for Instagram

  • Originally on Github
  • Bibliogram instances (Old)
  • Official instance: https://bibliogram.art
  • Example: Troy Hunt on Instagram and Bibliogram

• Teddit: Alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

  • Github mirror repo
  • Official instance: teddit.net
  • Example: /r/Privacy on Reddit and Teddit

• Xeddit: A Xamarin.Forms app for Reddit

  • Official instance: xeddit.com
  • Example: /r/Privacy on Reddit and Xeddit

• Whoogle Search: A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine for Google

• Searx: Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

  • Searx instances

• Frost: An extensive and functional third party app for Facebook (Android app)

• HNTopLinks: Top Links on Hacker News

  • Official instance: hntoplinks.com
  • Example: HNTopLinks of past month

• MediathekViewWeb: Video content of German public-service television broadcasters (e.g. ARD, ZDF)

  • Official instance: mediathekviewweb.de

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• CloudTube: a beautiful front-end for Invidious. If search doesn't work, change instance in settings. Right now, for me https://au.ytprivate.com works well

• Invuedious: another beautiful front-end for Invidious, built with Vue.js

• straw-viewer: a fork of, and created by the same author of, youtube-viewer. Uses Invidious API

• invidious-viewer: similar to straw-viewer. Requires MPV player and libmpv.so, provided by Linux distro

• Top of Reddit: like HNTopLinks but for Reddit

• RedditClient: alternative front-end for Reddit, built with Angular

• Libreddit: an alternative front-end for Reddit. Themed around Reddit redesign

• Updoot: Android, alternative front-end for Reddit

• eddrit: alternative front-end for Reddit, inspired by Nitter, built with Python & Starlette

• Shitter: Android, alternative front-end for Twitter, built with Java

• Harpy: Android, alternative front-end for Twitter, built with Flutter/Dart

• Twidere X: Android, alternative front-end for Twitter, built mostly with Kotlin, in early stage

• Tweeterr: tweet from command line

• Tweet-app: desktop Twitter client that only lets one tweet and they can't see timeline so they can be more productive

• Tweepy: Twitter for Python

• SlimSocial: Android, alternative front-end for Facebook, built with Java

• fb-messenger-cli: use Facebook Messenger from command line

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• hn-search for Hacker News search

  • Example: Highest rated submissions of the past 24 hours

• youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

• alltube: Web GUI for youtube-dl

• Vividl: Modern Windows GUI for youtube-dl

• youtube-dl-gui: A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js

• tartube: A GUI front-end for youtube-dl, partly based on youtube-dl-gui and written in Python 3 / Gtk 3

Related

• privacy-redirect

  • Firefox Add-On: Privacy Redirect
  • Chrome Extension: Privacy Redirect

• uBlock Origin

  • Firefox Add-On: uBlock Origin
  • Chrome Extension: uBlock Origin