alternative-front-ends
Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (e.g. YouTube, Twitter, etc.)
https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
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Overview
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YouTube
- https://poketube.fun
- CloudTube - end for Invidious
- ytmdl
- yt-local - based client for watching Youtube anonymously without forcing javascript (Fork of [youtube-local](https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local))
- Invidious - end to YouTube - Lightweight, no ads, no tracking, no JavaScript required
- Piped - friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design - Lightweight, no ads, no tracking
- YouTube.js - featured wrapper around the Innertube API, which is what YouTube itself uses
- FreeTube
- Invuedious
- Youtube-viewer
- pipe-viewer - viewer) for searching and playing videos from YouTube.
- Invidious-viewer
- NewPipe - end for Android
- Youtube-dl - line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
- OpenVideoDownloader aka jely2002/youtube-dl-gui - platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js
- ytdl-gui - to-use, cross-platform graphical interface for youtube-dl
- Alltube - dl
- Vividl - dl
- Tartube - end for youtube-dl, partly based on youtube-dl-gui and written in Python 3 / Gtk 3
- ytmdl
- Plumber - dl, allows conversion to GIFs
- youtube-local - based client for watching Youtube anonymously and with greater page performance
- SkyTube - source YouTube app for Android
- yt-dlp - dl fork with additional features and fixes
- uYouPlus
- TubeSync
- TubeArchivist
- ytfzf - dl
- ytcc
- smtube - alone YouTube video player
- minitube - friendly interface. Can make playlists from search keywords
- yattee
- ytcast
- LibreTube
- BlackHole
- oleksis/youtube-dl-gui - platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython
- https://poketube.fun
- mps-youtube
- SmartTubeNext
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YouTube Music
- AudioTube - mobile project with an interface designed for Linux phones
- ytmdesktop - platform (Windows, Mac, and Linux) desktop app for YouTube Music. Has a (proprietary?) remote control app for Android
- Beatbump
- th-ch/youtube-music - in ad blocker and downloader)
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Twitter
- nitter.net
- Nitter - end - Lightweight, no ads, no tracking, no JavaScript required
- Shitter - end for Twitter, built with Java
- Harpy - end for Twitter, built with Flutter/Dart
- Twidere X - end for Twitter, built mostly with Kotlin, in early stage
- Tweeterr
- Tweet-app
- Tweepy
- Fritter - source Twitter client for Android
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Reddit
- xeddit.com
- F-Droid
- F-Droid
- F-Droid
- Slide
- F-Droid
- kddit
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- Slide
- Teddit - end focused on privacy - Lightweight, no ads, no JavaScript, unofficial API
- Github mirror repository
- Libreddit - end for Reddit. Themed around Reddit's new design - Lightweight, no JavaScript, no ads, no tracking
- Xeddit
- Updoot - end for Reddit
- Eddrit - end for Reddit, inspired by Nitter, built with Python & Starlette
- Top of Reddit
- Snew - source client for Reddit forked from the Reddit source code
- Stealth - free, privacy-oriented, and feature-rich Reddit client
- Infinity
- Dawn - source Reddit app
- junipf/reddit-frontend - end written in React
- Troddit
- Roffline - 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
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- RedditClient - end for Reddit, built with Angular
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- F-Droid
- F-Droid
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
- xeddit.com
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Imgur
- Imgin
- Rimgu - hosted alternative frontend/ proxy for Imgur
- Omgur - source alternative Imgur front-end focused on privacy. Inspired by the Invidious, Nitter, and Teddit projects.
- imgrs - source alternative Imgur front-end focused on privacy. It's a Rust rewrite of a previous Imgur proxy project, Omgur.
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Spotify
- psst - platform Spotify client with native GUI
- psst - platform Spotify client with native GUI
- Spotiqueue - oriented macOS-native client for Spotify, with Guile Scheme scriptability
- spot
- spotube - client which handles playback manually, streams music using Youtube & no Spotify premium account is needed
- kotify - Multiplatform desktop client for Spotify focused on library organization for power users. Relies on official Spotify client for playback
- librespot - 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
- spotifyd
- SpotX - Blocking ads and updates for the desktop version of Spotify, disabling podcasts and more
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Google Translate
- F-Droid
- F-Droid
- F-Droid
- Lingva Translate - end for Google Translate, serving as a free and open-source translator with over a hundred languages available
- SimplyTranslate
- SimplyTranslate Mobile
- InstaLate - 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.
- DeepL Android
- Crow Translate - platform translator that allows translation using LibreTranslate, Lingva, Google, Bing, and Yandex, as well as text-to-speech using Google
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Mastodon
- Tootle - based Linux Mastodon client
- Fedilab - account Android Mastodon client
- Pinafore - pinafore/)**
- Hyperspace - platform Mastodon client for the fediverse written in TypeScript and React **[In maintenance mode](https://github.com/hyperspacedev/hyperspace/issues/232)**
- Sengi - platform multi-account Mastodon & Pleroma desktop client
- TheDesk - platform Mastodon & Misskey desktop client
- Tusky
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Medium
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Hacker News
- Highest rated submissions of the past 24 hours
- HN-search
- HNTopLinks
- Hackerweb
- Hckrnws - end for a better reading experience of HackerNews
- Hackers
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Other services
- mediathekviewweb.de
- Pastewin - end
- MediathekViewWeb - service television broadcasters (e.g. ARD, ZDF)
- NoPaste - source website similar to Pastebin where you can store any piece of code, and generate links for easy sharing
- PrivateBin - 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
- hedgedoc
- etherpad-lite - real-time collaborative document editor
- gitea - hosted git service
- ArchiveBox - hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more
- Wikiless - end focused on privacy
- Librarian
- snapdrop
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Discord
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TikTok
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Apple Music
- Cider - platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind
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Bandcamp
- Tent - end for Bandcamp that does not require JavaScript and proxies all requests
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Twitch
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Google Search
- Whoogle Search - hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine for Google
- Searx - 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
- LibreX
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Facebook
- SlimSocial - end for Facebook, built with Java
- Frost
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Facebook Messenger
- Caprine - focused Facebook Messenger app with many useful features
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IMDb
- libremdb - end to IMDb.
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Quora
- Quetre - end for Quora
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Reuters
- Neuters - end to Reuters.com. It is intented to be lightweight and fast, and was heavily inspired by Nitter
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Apple AirPlay
- RPiPlay - source AirPlay mirroring server for the Raspberry Pi. Supports iOS 9 and up.
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Shazam
- SongRec - source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust
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Telegram
- Telegram-FOSS - friendly fork of the original Telegram client for Android
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Redirection
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Other services
- Firefox Add-On: Privacy Redirect
- Chrome Extension: Privacy Redirect
- Firefox Add-On
- Chrome Extension
- Firefox Add-On: Redirector
- Chrome Extension: Redirector
- Privacy Redirect
- Farside - 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 - 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)
- Redirector
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Related projects
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Other services
- Firefox Add-On: uBlock Origin
- Chrome Extension: uBlock Origin
- Youtube Vanced
- uBlock Origin
- StreetComplete
- Matrix.org's Synapse - to-end-encrypted messaging. Matrix reference homeserver. See also [matrix.org](https://matrix.org).
- Pluja's Awesome Privacy
- Chrome Extension: uBlock Origin
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Keywords
youtube
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privacy
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android
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youtube-dl
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self-hosted
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python
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video
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reddit
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electron
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javascript
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twitter
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kotlin
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invidious
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alternative-frontends
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spotify
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mastodon
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app
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front-end
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music
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rust
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windows
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linux
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macos
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php
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metasearch-engine
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search
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typescript
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frontend
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nodejs
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youtube-music
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music-player
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golang
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desktop
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twitch
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hacker-news
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cli
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foss
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ios
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paste
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pastebin
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facebook
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flutter
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metasearch
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youtube-player
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docker
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search-engine
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java
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chromium
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download-videos
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firefox
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