alternative-front-ends

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Provides a curated list of alternative front-end projects for various internet platforms.

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 7,266 3 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 8,469 3 days ago Public instances:
https://github.com/TeamPiped/Documentation/blob/main/content/docs/self-hosting/index.md 43 6 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 681 13 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 10,115 8 months ago Public instances:
Twitter Example: Troy Hunt on and

alternative-front-ends / Overview / Reddit
https://teddit.net Official instance:
https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit#instances 254 over 1 year ago Public instances:
Github mirror repository 254 over 1 year ago
Reddit Example: /r/Privacy on and
https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit-instances/blob/master/instances.md 90 4 days ago Public instances:
xeddit.com Official instance:
Reddit Example: /r/Privacy on and
F-Droid Available on
F-Droid Available on
F-Droid Available on
https://github.com/saket/Dank 812 over 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 1,859 3 months 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 7,184 6 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 1,313 about 1 month ago : A lightweight Discord client written in Golang which uses GTK3 for the user interface
openasar 2,526 8 days ago : An open-source alternative of Discord desktop's app.asar
https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#public-instances 9,581 21 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 1,541 over 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 7,041 3 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 303 about 2 months 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 303 about 2 months ago Public Instances:

alternative-front-ends / Overview / Quora
Quetre 441 13 days 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 441 13 days ago Public instances:

alternative-front-ends / Overview / Reuters
Neuters 90 3 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 1,380 about 2 months ago : Open-source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust

alternative-front-ends / Overview / Telegram
Telegram-FOSS 2,932 3 months 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 173 24 days 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
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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