alternative-front-ends
Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (e.g. YouTube, Twitter, etc.)
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alternative-front-ends / Call to Action | |||
| issue | 7,063 | about 2 months ago | Just create an and let me know. I'm always looking for new free/open-source projects to add |
alternative-front-ends / Overview / YouTube | |||
| https://invidious.io | Home page: | ||
| https://docs.invidious.io/instances/ | Invidious instances: | ||
| https://api.invidious.io | Invidious instances API: | ||
| https://docs.invidious.io/installation/ | Installation guide for self-hosting: | ||
| https://piped.video | Official instance: | ||
| https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances | 8,270 | 8 days ago | Public instances: |
| https://github.com/TeamPiped/Documentation/blob/main/content/docs/self-hosting/index.md | 43 | 5 months ago | Installation guide for self-hosting: |
| https://poketube.fun | Official instance: | ||
| https://tube.cadence.moe | Official instance: | ||
| https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/tube-docs/tree/main/item/docs/cloudtube/Installing%20CloudTube.md | Installation guide for self-hosting: | ||
| https://freetubeapp.io/ | Official Instance: | ||
| https://bocchilorenzo.github.io/invuedious | Official instance: | ||
| https://www.smtube.org | Website: | ||
| https://www.smplayer.info | SMPlayer website: | ||
| https://github.com/smplayer-dev/smplayer | 658 | 8 days ago | SMPlayer repository: |
alternative-front-ends / Overview / YouTube Music | |||
| https://beatbump.ml/ | Official instance: | ||
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Twitter | |||
| nitter.net | Official instance: | ||
| https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances | 9,976 | 6 months ago | Public instances: |
| Example: Troy Hunt on and | |||
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Reddit | |||
| https://teddit.net | Official instance: | ||
| https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit#instances | 250 | about 1 year ago | Public instances: |
| Github mirror repository | 250 | about 1 year ago | |
| Example: /r/Privacy on and | |||
| https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit-instances/blob/master/instances.md | 88 | 9 days ago | Public instances: |
| xeddit.com | Official instance: | ||
| Example: /r/Privacy on and | |||
| F-Droid | Available on | ||
| F-Droid | Available on | ||
| F-Droid | Available on | ||
| https://github.com/saket/Dank | 814 | about 2 years ago | Forked from Dank: |
| F-Droid | Available on | ||
| https://jpf-reddit.netlify.app | Official instance: | ||
| https://kddit.kalli.st | Official instance: | ||
| https://www.troddit.com | Official instance: | ||
alternative-front-ends / Overview / TikTok | |||
| ProxiTok | 1,821 | about 1 month ago | : Open source alternative frontend for TikTok made with PHP |
alternative-front-ends / Overview / TikTok / ProxiTok | |||
| https://proxitok.pabloferreiro.es/ | Official instance: | ||
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Imgur | |||
| https://codeberg.org/video-prize-ranch/rimgo#instances | Public instances: | ||
| https://imgin.voidnet.tech | Official instance: | ||
| https://imgur.com/a/GD6p5Fi | Example album on Imgur.com: | ||
| https://imgin.voidnet.tech/a/GD6p5Fi | Same album on Imgin: | ||
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Apple Music | |||
| Cider | 7,153 | 5 months ago | : Cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind |
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Bandcamp | |||
| Tent | : A simple alternative front-end for Bandcamp that does not require JavaScript and proxies all requests | ||
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Discord | |||
| gtkcord4 | 1,265 | 17 days ago | : A lightweight Discord client written in Golang which uses GTK3 for the user interface |
| openasar | 2,459 | 29 days ago | : An open-source alternative of Discord desktop's app.asar |
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Google Search | |||
| https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#public-instances | 9,415 | 5 days ago | Public instances: |
| https://searx.space | Public instances: | ||
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Google Translate | |||
| lingva.ml | Official instance: | ||
| https://github.com/TheDavidDelta/lingva-translate#instances | 1,518 | about 1 year ago | Public instances: |
| https://simple-web.org/projects/simplytranslate.html | Home page and public instances: | ||
| F-Droid | Available on | ||
| F-Droid | Available on | ||
| F-Droid | Available on | ||
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Facebook Messenger | |||
| Caprine | 7,001 | about 2 months ago | : Unofficial and privacy-focused Facebook Messenger app with many useful features |
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Medium | |||
| https://scribe.rip | Official website: | ||
| https://libmedium.batsense.net | Official website: | ||
alternative-front-ends / Overview / IMDb | |||
| libremdb | 292 | about 1 month ago | : A FOSS alternative front-end to IMDb |
alternative-front-ends / Overview / IMDb / libremdb | |||
| https://libremdb.iket.me/ | Official instance: | ||
| https://github.com/zyachel/libremdb#instances | 292 | about 1 month ago | Public Instances: |
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Quora | |||
| Quetre | 432 | about 1 month ago | : A libre front-end for Quora |
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Quora / Quetre | |||
| https://quetre.iket.me/ | Official website: | ||
| https://github.com/zyachel/quetre#instances | 432 | about 1 month ago | Public instances: |
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Reuters | |||
| Neuters | 84 | about 2 months ago | : An alternative front-end to Reuters.com. It is intented to be lightweight and fast, and was heavily inspired by Nitter |
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Reuters / Neuters | |||
| https://neuters.de | Official instance: | ||
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Shazam | |||
| SongRec | 1,347 | 8 days ago | : Open-source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust |
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Telegram | |||
| Telegram-FOSS | 2,891 | about 1 month ago | : Unofficial, FOSS-friendly fork of the original Telegram client for Android |
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Hacker News | |||
| Highest rated submissions of the past 24 hours | Example: | ||
| https://hackerweb.app | Official instance: | ||
| https://hackerwebapp.com | About Hackerweb: | ||
| https://www.hckrnws.com | Official instance: | ||
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hackers-for-hacker-news/id603503901 | Available to download on the Apple AppStore: | ||
alternative-front-ends / Overview / Other services | |||
| mediathekviewweb.de | Official instance: | ||
| https://wikiless.org/ | Official instance: | ||
| https://github.com/Metastem/wikiless | 167 | 3 months ago | Public instances: |
| https://codeberg.org/librarian/librarian#instances | Public instances: | ||
alternative-front-ends / Redirection | |||
| Firefox Add-On: Privacy Redirect | |||
| Chrome Extension: Privacy Redirect | |||
| Firefox Add-On | |||
| Chrome Extension | |||
| Firefox Add-On: Redirector | |||
| Chrome Extension: Redirector | |||
alternative-front-ends / Related projects | |||
| Firefox Add-On: uBlock Origin | |||
| Chrome Extension: uBlock Origin | |||
| https://vancedapp.com | Official website with install instructions: | ||
| https://old.reddit.com/r/Vanced/comments/o3xm9m/if_youtube_vanced_isnt_open_source_and_doesnt/h2ec7wf/ | For an explanation about the origin of Youtube Vanced see here: | ||
| https://github.com/revanced | Vanced was forced to shut down by Google due to legal reasons. The project tries to continue its legacy | ||
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