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alternative-front-ends
Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (YouTube, Twitter, etc.)
Call to Action
- Do you know any other projects that are not included in the overview yet?
- It could be about front ends or alternatives to websites, apps, etc.
- Just create an issue and let me know. I'm always looking for new projects to add
Overview
YouTube
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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
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Youtube-viewer: Lightweight YouTube client for Linux
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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
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Invuedious: another beautiful front-end for Invidious, built with Vue.js
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Straw-viewer: a fork of, and created by the same author of, youtube-viewer. Uses Invidious API
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Invidious-viewer: similar to straw-viewer. Requires MPV player and libmpv.so, provided by Linux distro
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Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
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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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Youtube-dl-gui: A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js
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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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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: tweet from command line
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Tweet-app: desktop Twitter client that only lets one tweet and they can't see timeline so they can be more productive
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Tweepy: Twitter for Python
- 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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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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Libreddit: an alternative front-end for Reddit. Themed around Reddit redesign
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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: like HNTopLinks but for Reddit
Search
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Whoogle Search: A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine for Google
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Searx: Privacy-respecting metasearch 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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HN-search for 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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