Invidious – An open source alternative front-end to YouTube

1. Invidious

   1 437 20,391 9.2 Crystal

   Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

   

   AFAIK you have to select DASH as your preferred video quality (or append &quality=dash) for other resolutions to work. It's not enabled by default because the server has to proxy the video (CORS):

   https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/177#issuecomment-...

2. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. yattee

   2 95 3,509 9.2 Swift

   Privacy oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS

   

   A selfhosted instance of this, combined with [Yattee](https://github.com/yattee/yattee) as a client on iOS and tvOS is a pretty decent way to consume YT subscriptions with minimal exposure to algorithm and ads.

4. NewPipe

   3 2,082 38,555 9.9 Java

   A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

   

   NewPipe works perfectly fine for downloading videos.

   https://newpipe.net/

   It doesn't seem to do 4K video on my Pixel 6a - I'm only getting up to 1080p downloads.

5. Seal

   4 131 26,749 5.3 Kotlin

   🦭 Video/Audio Downloader for Android, based on yt-dlp

   

   On Android, you can use Seal[1] to download YT videos locally. It also supports many other sites.

   [1] https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal

6. alternative-front-ends

   5 73 8,910 0.0

   Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (e.g. YouTube, Twitter, etc.)

   

   There is a great list of many alternative frontends I found here: https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends

   They work well for internet archiving too, e.g. when Twitter or Reddit are being annoying and showing popups/login redirects/etc. you can replace the URL with an alternative frontend version and archive the content without the cruft.

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