alternative-front-ends

Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms.

Info

• Do you know any other projects about front ends or alternatives to websites, apps, etc. that are not included in the overview yet?
• Just create an issue and let me know. I'm always looking for new projects to add.

Overview

--OLD--

• Invidious for YouTube.com|- Invidious instances
  - Official instance: https://invidio.us|Troy Hunt on Youtube and Invidious

• Youtube-viewer for YouTube.com|not available|not available

• Yotter for YouTube.com and Twitter.com|- Yotter instances
  - Official instance: yotter.xyz|not available

• Nitter for Twitter.com|- Nitter instances
  - Official instance: nitter.net|Troy Hunt on Twitter and Nitter

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

• Xeddit for Reddit.com|xeddit.com|/r/Privacy on Reddit and Xeddit

• Teddit for Reddit.com|teddit.net|/r/Privacy on Reddit and Teddit

• Whoogle Search for Google Search|not available|not available

• Searx as a metasearch engine|not available
  (public instances can be found here)|searx.privatenet.cf

• Frost for Facebook.com|not available|not available

• HNTopLinks for Hacker News|hntoplinks.com|HNTopLinks of past month

• MediathekViewWeb for German public-service television broadcasters (e.g. ARD, ZDF)|mediathekviewweb.de|not available

--NEW--

• 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

--To-do--

• hn-search

• privacy-redirect

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