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alternative-front-ends
Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (e.g. YouTube, Twitter, etc.)
Call to Action
- Do you know any other projects that are not included in the overview yet? (front ends, alternatives to websites, apps, etc.)
- Just create an issue and let me know. I'm always looking for new projects to add.
Contents
Overview
YouTube
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Invidious: Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
- Invidious instances
- Official instance: https://invidio.us, will be moved to: https://invidious.io
- Example: Troy Hunt on Youtube and Invidious
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FreeTube: Open source YouTube desktop player for privacy on Windows, Mac and Linux
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CloudTube: A front-end for Invidious
- Instance: https://tube.cadence.moe
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Invuedious: An alternative frontend for invidious built with vue.js
- Official instance: https://bocchilorenzo.github.io/invuedious/
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Youtube-viewer: Lightweight YouTube client for Linux
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Straw-viewer: A lightweight YouTube client for Linux, using the API of Invidious
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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)
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NewPipe: A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android
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Piped: An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
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Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
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Youtube-dl-gui: A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js
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ytdl-gui: A simple-to-use, cross-platform graphical interface for youtube-dl.
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Alltube: Web GUI for youtube-dl
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Vividl: Modern Windows GUI for youtube-dl
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Tartube: A GUI front-end for youtube-dl, partly based on youtube-dl-gui and written in Python 3 / Gtk 3
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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.
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Plumber: Local and remote video trimmer, can trim parts of video without downloading whole video, utilizes youtube-dl, allows conversion to GIFs
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ViewTube: An alternative front-end for YouTube, written in Vue.js, uses Plyr video player; supports SponsorBlock, multiple Invidious instances support, chapters
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youtube-local: Browser-based client for watching Youtube anonymously and with greater page performance
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yt-local: Browser-based client for watching Youtube anonymously without forcing javascript (Fork of youtube-local)
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SkyTube: An open-source YouTube app for Android
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Yotter: Youtube and Twitter with privacy
- Yotter instances
- Official instance: yotter.xyz
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Nitter: Alternative Twitter front-end
- Nitter instances
- Official instance: nitter.net
- Example: Troy Hunt on Twitter and Nitter
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Shitter: Android, alternative front-end for Twitter, built with Java
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Harpy: Android, alternative front-end for Twitter, built with Flutter/Dart
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Twidere X: Android, alternative front-end for Twitter, built mostly with Kotlin, in early stage
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Tweeterr: A tool to use Twitter from the command line on the fly
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Tweet-app: Desktop Twitter client only for tweeting. Timeline never shows up
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Tweepy: Twitter for Python
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Fritter: A free, open-source Twitter client for Android and iOS
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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
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Barinsta: Open-source alternative Instagram client for Android
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Libreddit: Alternative front-end for Reddit. Themed around Reddit redesign
- Official instance: libredd.it
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Teddit: Alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy
- Github mirror repo
- Official instance: teddit.net
- Example: /r/Privacy on Reddit and Teddit
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Xeddit: A Xamarin.Forms app for Reddit
- Official instance: xeddit.com
- Example: /r/Privacy on Reddit and Xeddit
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RedditClient: Alternative front-end for Reddit, built with Angular
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Updoot: Android, alternative front-end for Reddit
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Eddrit: Alternative front-end for Reddit, inspired by Nitter, built with Python & Starlette
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Top of Reddit: Top Reddit posts every day
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Snew: Open-source client for Reddit forked from the Reddit source code
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Stealth: Account-free, privacy-oriented, and feature-rich Reddit client
- Available on F-Droid
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Infinity: Reddit client for Android
- Available on F-Droid
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Dawn: Open-source Reddit app
Spotify
- psst: Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI
Search Engines
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Whoogle Search: A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine for Google
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Searx: Privacy-respecting meta-search engine
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Fb-messenger-cli: Use Facebook Messenger from command line
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SlimSocial: Android, alternative front-end for Facebook, built with Java
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Frost: An extensive and functional third party app for Facebook (Android app)
Other
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MediathekViewWeb: Video content of German public-service television broadcasters (e.g. ARD, ZDF)
- Official instance: mediathekviewweb.de
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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.
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HN-search: Algolia Hacker News search
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HNTopLinks: Top Links on Hacker News
- Official instance: hntoplinks.com
- Example: HNTopLinks of past month
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vaultwarden: Password manager. Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs.
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snapdrop: Similar to Apple's Airdrop but in your browser. A Progressive Web App for local file sharing.
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hedgedoc: Collaborative markdown editor. A platform to write and share markdown.
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etherpad-lite: Collaborative rich text editor. A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.
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gitea: Lightweight git server. Git with a cup of tea, painless self-hosted git service.
Related
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Privacy-redirect: A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram & Google Maps requests to privacy friendly alternatives
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uBlock Origin: An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean
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StreetComplete: Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android
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Matrix.org's Synapse: End-to-end-encrypted messaging. Matrix reference homeserver. See also matrix.org.
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Pluja's Awesome Privacy: A curated list of services and alternatives that respect your privacy because privacy matters.
About this repository
This overview originally included three projects (Invidious, Bibliogram and Nitter) and was therefore named alternative front-ends
. As more projects have been added to this overview, the listed projects partially left the scope of alternative frontends.
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. Maybe this repository will be renamed in the future to better reflect the larger scope.