awesome-alternative-frontend/README.md

awesome-alternative-frontends

A curated list of awesome alternative, privacy-friendly frontends.

If anything is missing, feel free to open a pull request!

YouTube

Web

Invidious

Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube.

Repository	https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
Instances list	https://docs.invidious.io/instances/
Javascript required?	No 🟢
API available?	Yes 🟢

Piped

An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

Repository	https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
Instances list	https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances
Javascript required?	Yes 🟥
API available?	Yes 🟢

Desktop

FreeTube

An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

Repository	https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
Windows?	Yes 🟢
macOS?	Yes 🟢
Linux?	Yes 🟢

YouTube-Viewer

Lightweight YouTube client for Linux

Repository	https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer
Windows?	No 🟥
macOS?	No 🟥
Linux?	Yes 🟢

Yattee

Alternative YouTube frontend for iOS (iPhone, iPad), macOS and tvOS (Apple TV) built with Invidious and Piped

Repository	https://github.com/yattee/yattee
Windows?	No 🟥
macOS?	Yes 🟢
Linux?	No 🟥

Mobile

NewPipe

A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

Repository	https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
Android?	Yes 🟢
iOS?	No 🟥

SkyTube

Copylefted libre / open source YouTube player for Android

Repository	https://github.com/SkyTubeTeam/SkyTube
Android?	Yes 🟢
iOS?	No 🟥

LibreTube

An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android. [WIP]

Repository	https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube
Android?	Yes 🟢
iOS?	No 🟥

uYouPlus

uYou+ is a modified version of uYou (made by @MiRO92) with additional features and mainly made for non jailbroken users!

Repository	https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus
Android?	No 🟥
iOS?	Yes 🟢

Yattee

Alternative YouTube frontend for iOS (iPhone, iPad), macOS and tvOS (Apple TV) built with Invidious and Piped

Repository	https://github.com/yattee/yattee
Android?	No 🟥
iOS?	Yes 🟢

TV

SmartTubeNext

Ad free app for watching tube videos on Android TV boxes

Repository	https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
AndroidTV?	Yes 🟢
fireTV?	Yes 🟢
webOS?	No 🟥
tizenOS?	No 🟥
tvOS?	No 🟥

Yattee

Alternative YouTube frontend for iOS (iPhone, iPad), macOS and tvOS (Apple TV) built with Invidious and Piped

Repository	https://github.com/yattee/yattee
AndroidTV?	No 🟥
fireTV?	No 🟥
webOS?	No 🟥
tizenOS?	No 🟥
tvOS?	Yes 🟢

Youtube Music

Web

Beatbump

Alternative YouTube Music frontend built with Svelte/SvelteKit 🎧

Repository	https://github.com/snuffyDev/Beatbump
Instances list	Not available 🟥
Javascript required?	Yes 🟥
API available?	No 🟥

Desktop

Youtube Music

YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader)

Repository	https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music
Windows?	Yes 🟢
macOS?	Yes 🟢
Linux?	Yes 🟢

Mobile

BlackHole

A Music Player App made with Flutter

Repository	https://github.com/Sangwan5688/BlackHole
Android?	Yes 🟢
iOS?	No 🟥

Reddit

Web

Libreddit

Private front-end for Reddit

Repository	https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit
Instances list	https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit#instances=
Javascript required?	No 🟢
API available?	No 🟥

Teddit

alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy https://teddit.net

Repository	https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit
Instances list	https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit#instances
Javascript required?	No 🟢
API available?	Yes 🟡 (Unofficial)

Troddit

A web client for Reddit with authenticated logins and a variety of browsing options

Repository	https://github.com/burhan-syed/troddit
Instances list	https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit#instances=
Javascript required?	Yes 🟥
API available?	No 🟥

Mobile

Stealth

Stealth is an account-free, privacy-oriented, and feature-rich Reddit client.

Repository	https://gitlab.com/cosmosapps/stealth
Android?	Yes 🟢
iOS?	No 🟥

Infinity

A Reddit client for Android

Repository	https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit
Android?	Yes 🟢
iOS?	No 🟥

Dawn

Here lives the greatest open-source Reddit app

Repository	https://github.com/Tunous/Dawn
Android?	Yes 🟢
iOS?	No 🟥

Twitter

Web

Nitter

Alternative Twitter front-end

Repository	https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Instances list	https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
Javascript required?	No 🟢
API available?	No 🟥 (Included in it's roadmap, https://github.com/zedeus/nitter#roadmap=)

Mobile

Fritter

A privacy-friendly Twitter frontend for mobile devices

Repository	https://github.com/jonjomckay/fritter
Android?	Yes 🟢
iOS?	No 🟥

Shitter

Lightweight Twitter app for Android

Repository	https://github.com/nuclearfog/Shitter
Android?	Yes 🟢
iOS?	No 🟥

Instagram

Instagram is known to aggresively block alternative frontends. Please help the community by hosting your own service

Bibliogram

An alternative front-end for Instagram.

Repository	https://sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram/
Instances list	https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram-docs/tree/master/docs/Instances.md
Javascript required?	No 🟢
API available?	No 🟥

Google

Whoogle

A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine

Repository	https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
Instances list	https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#public-instances=
Javascript required?	No 🟢
API available?	No 🟥

LibreX

A privacy respecting free as in freedom meta search engine

Repository	https://github.com/hnhx/librex
Instances list	https://github.com/hnhx/librex#online-instances=
Javascript required?	No 🟢
API available?	Yes 🟢

Google Translate

Lingva

Alternative front-end for Google Translate

Repository	https://github.com/TheDavidDelta/lingva-translate
Instances list	https://github.com/TheDavidDelta/lingva-translate#instances=
Javascript required?	Yes 🟥
API available?	Yes 🟢

SimplyTranslate

Web Interface for SimplyTranslate built with python and quart https://simplytranslate.org

Repository	https://codeberg.org/SimpleWeb/SimplyTranslate-Web
Instances list	https://simple-web.org/projects/simplytranslate.html
Javascript required?	Yes 🟥
API available?	Yes 🟢

TikTok

ProxiTok

Open source alternative frontend for TikTok made using PHP

Repository	https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok
Instances list	https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok/wiki/Public-instances
Javascript required?	No 🟢
API available?	No 🟥

Imgur

Rimgo

Self-hosted frontend for imgur. Rewritten in Go. https://i.bcow.xyz

Repository	https://codeberg.org/video-prize-ranch/rimgo
Instances list	https://codeberg.org/video-prize-ranch/rimgo#instances
Javascript required?	No 🟢
API available?	No 🟥

Rimgu

Self-hosted frontend for imgur

Repository	https://codeberg.org/3np/rimgu
Instances list	Not available 🟥
Javascript required?	No 🟢
API available?	Yes 🟢

Rimgu

Self-hosted frontend for imgur

Repository	https://codeberg.org/3np/rimgu
Instances list	Not available 🟥
Javascript required?	No 🟢
API available?	No 🟥

Omgur

Private front-end for Imgur

Repository	https://git.geraldwu.com/gerald/omgur
Instances list	Not available 🟥
Javascript required?	No 🟢
API available?	No 🟥 (Included in it's roadmap, https://git.geraldwu.com/gerald/omgur#far-future-roadmap)

Imgrs

Private front-end for Imgur

Repository	https://git.geraldwu.com/gerald/imgrs
Instances list	Not available 🟥
Javascript required?	No 🟢
API available?	No 🟥 (Included in it's roadmap, https://git.geraldwu.com/gerald/imgrs#far-future-roadmap)

Mastodon

Pinafore

Alternative web client for Mastodon

Repository	https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore
Instances list	Not available 🟥
Javascript required?	Yes 🟥
API available?	No 🟥

Medium

Scribe

An Alternative Medium Frontend

Repository	https://sr.ht/~edwardloveall/scribe/
Instances list	Not available 🟥
Javascript required?	No 🟢
API available?	No 🟥

Reuters

Neuters

Reuters Redirect and Proxy

Repository	https://github.com/HookedBehemoth/neuters
Instances list	Not available 🟥
Javascript required?	No 🟢
API available?	No 🟥

Wikipedia

Wikiless

A free open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy

Repository	https://codeberg.org/orenom/wikiless
Instances list	https://codeberg.org/orenom/wikiless#instances
Javascript required?	No 🟢
API available?	No 🟥

Odysee

Librarian

An alternative frontend for LBRY/Odysee.

Repository	https://codeberg.org/librarian/librarian
Instances list	https://codeberg.org/librarian/librarian#instances
Javascript required?	Yes 🟥 for video playing; No 🟢 for everything else
API available?	No 🟥

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