MusicPiped VS invidious-updater

ViMusic - looks nice, works reliably, but very direct with YouTube, all local z-huang/music - similar to the above, in early development BlackHole - very similar but more feature-loaded, has Spotify support but that didn't work for me all that well HoloPlay - which uses an Invidious instance and can connect to your account, but is little harder to setup, doesn't have subscriptions/feed functionality, and is now undeveloped for quite long MusicPiped - which, contrary to it's name, also uses Invidious, is also unmaintained for a long time and at least for me, doesn't even seem to work

MusicPiped (F-Droid; YT Music alt.)

Music Piped : https://github.com/deep-gaurav/MusicPiped

YouTube Vanced alternatives: 1. NewPipe (which you should have either way for youtube-dl integration) -> https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases 1.5 NewPipe fork by polymorphicshade -> https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe 2. LibreTube (still in early beta) -> https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube/releases 3. Firefox with uBlock Origin, enhancer for youtube, SponsorBlock and return youtube dislike -> [install an addon compatible fork like IceRaven, then install the addons from the adddon store] 4. YouTube Pink -> [I have no legit link yet] 5. YouTube++ (iOS) -> [I have no legit link yet] 6. SkyTube -> https://github.com/SkyTubeTeam/SkyTube/releases 7. MusicPiped (F-Droid; YT Music alt.) -> https://github.com/deep-gaurav/MusicPiped/releases 8. AdAway (requires root to work full, but no-root DNS mode is also available) -> https://github.com/AdAway/AdAway/releases ONLY WORKS FOR YT WEB!

Invidious: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

YouTube alternative frontends (web-based): - Invidious - Alternative and privacy respecting YouTube frontend. - Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design. - LibreTube - An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android using Piped. - ViewTube - ViewTube is an alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend written in Vue.js - Youtube-Local - browser-based client for watching Youtube anonymously and with greater page performance.

It's an alternate front end to YT content without YT tracking or advertising. Works for some depending on reason.

More in-depth description here: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

https://github.com/iv-org/invidious FOSS frontend for YouTube, loads of public instances available

There's MeTube for downloading, but if you're seeking to watch videos and playlists then maybe Invidious is what you want.

You could also selfhost an ad-free YouTube frontend like Invidious.

Invidious (an alternative front-end of YouTube) is written in Crystal: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

That's a nice one. Also, there is Piped / Invidious which you can self-host and run or use a public instance like - https://pipedd official instance of Piped). It has no ads and tracking by default, supports 4K playback, integrated SponsorBlock (block in-video sponsor ads by content producers) and many other features.

you can use frontends for reddit and youtube if you just want to browse. for reddit, you can use libreddit. for YouTube, you can use invidious. this will make it so that your machine never sends requests directly to reddit or youtube. if you want apps, then there's newpipe, vuetube, libretube(all for android).