Freetube, Individious, Piped, CloudTube, PokeTube, Tubo, Yattee are the main ones I know of. If you want be automatically redirected to alternative youtube frontends installed Lib Redirect.
I’m self-hosting Piped and couldn’t be happier. Clean, distraction free and, importantly, private. No data mining. Importing your subscriptions from a Google Takeout dump is simple.
LibreTube for Android is my mobile client, and talks to my Piped server without any issues. The only thing missing at this stage is a client for my Chromecast GTVs. For those, I still watch YouTube with SmartTubeNext, which means keeping two sets of subscriptions in sync. A little frustrating, but relatively painless, for the privacy benefits.
GrayJay just came out into the testing phase. It not only supportsYouTubee but also Nebula, Odysee, Twitch, PeerTube and a few others with more to come. Works great so far. grayjay.app. Built by Futo, a nonprofit company which Louis Rossmann works for. His video here
Can someone explain to me why I want the video proxied vs the video coming directly from YT via a front end? I’ve used YouTube Vanced in the past and it was awesome when it worked
Invidious. If you look up invidious instances you can find plenty of them and choose one that’s in your country so it’s nice and fast. Sometimes they take an extra second to load but there are no ads so it’s worth it
NOTE: Yattee is on the AppStore, but without any sources/instances by default. Look for “instances” in the settings and add a Piped API URL, like https://pipedapi.kavin.rocks to watch videos from YouTube with Piped+Yattee.
Desktop
On Desktop, there is all the web clients as well as FreeTube (freetubeapp.io).
NOTE: FreeTube has an option to proxy everything or just the videos through Invidious to preserve privacy. It is recommended to enable this.
Would like to add to this that invidious on web can proxy your videos like Piped does but you have to enable it in settings first, not sure when they added it but they have that now
On android i like newpipe + sponsorblock and clipious. Id use clipious all the time but it sometimes doesnt play and then i fall back on newpipe. Newpipe has downloading too.
I dont use youtube much on desktop but when i do i use invidious
Yes, your info is stored locally so you dont need to login to the YouTube API, i use newpipe to watch the videos and read some comments, not to interact or upload videos since that’s impossible on newpipe
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YouTube vanced, I just had a very sad few years on iOS, boy did I miss YouTube vanced
Vanced is dead
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Invidious
Freetube, Individious, Piped, CloudTube, PokeTube, Tubo, Yattee are the main ones I know of. If you want be automatically redirected to alternative youtube frontends installed Lib Redirect.
I’m self-hosting Piped and couldn’t be happier. Clean, distraction free and, importantly, private. No data mining. Importing your subscriptions from a Google Takeout dump is simple.
LibreTube for Android is my mobile client, and talks to my Piped server without any issues. The only thing missing at this stage is a client for my Chromecast GTVs. For those, I still watch YouTube with SmartTubeNext, which means keeping two sets of subscriptions in sync. A little frustrating, but relatively painless, for the privacy benefits.
GrayJay just came out into the testing phase. It not only supportsYouTubee but also Nebula, Odysee, Twitch, PeerTube and a few others with more to come. Works great so far. grayjay.app. Built by Futo, a nonprofit company which Louis Rossmann works for. His video here
Looks like a good option, unfortunately it would not run for me on an Android emulator in Windows. (LDPlayer 5)
If you’re on Windows 10 or 11 just install it natively with WSA. You might have to look up a tutorial. I’ve yet to have a compatibility issue
Whoa, I thought that was only for Win 11. Cool, thanks!
Can someone explain to me why I want the video proxied vs the video coming directly from YT via a front end? I’ve used YouTube Vanced in the past and it was awesome when it worked
Its for privacy. This way youtube doesnt get your ip and has more difficulty figuring out who you are
Get revanced, it works now.
Best overall SmartTube for Android TV and NewPipe with SponsorBlock for Android.
Or LibreTube for Android.
Thanks, been looking for something for TV!
NewPipe SponsorBlock
Invidious. If you look up invidious instances you can find plenty of them and choose one that’s in your country so it’s nice and fast. Sometimes they take an extra second to load but there are no ads so it’s worth it
Web
For the web, there is Piped (github.com/teampiped/piped) and Invidious (invidious.io)
Android
On Android, there’s NewPipe and LibreTube which are well known by now.
iOS
On iOS, there’s the web frontends and Yattee (github.com/yattee/yattee).
Desktop
On Desktop, there is all the web clients as well as FreeTube (freetubeapp.io).
Would like to add to this that invidious on web can proxy your videos like Piped does but you have to enable it in settings first, not sure when they added it but they have that now
Just want to add to your yatte this source/instance this gives you a lot of instances to start with so you don’t need to add them manually.
https://r.yattee.stream/manifest-invidious-piped.json
On android i like newpipe + sponsorblock and clipious. Id use clipious all the time but it sometimes doesnt play and then i fall back on newpipe. Newpipe has downloading too.
I dont use youtube much on desktop but when i do i use invidious
Oh and i use smartubenext on android tv
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Been using revanced for a while - had no idea there were this many alternatives. I like revanced though, especially with stube on Google tv.
I use freetube on linux, newpipe on android.
Check out LibreTube on Android!
Newpipe for Android. Hands down the best iv used.
Have you tried LibreTube?
I have heard about it, but does It have this?
Yes it does.
I just tried it earlier but was taken aback that I couldn’t find any way to login. Is that meant to be that way?
Yes, your info is stored locally so you dont need to login to the YouTube API, i use newpipe to watch the videos and read some comments, not to interact or upload videos since that’s impossible on newpipe
Yes