I’ve heard of piped due to the piped-link bot, but I am curious about others.
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!
Web
For the web, there is Piped (github.com/teampiped/piped) and Invidious (invidious.io)
NOTE: Only Piped proxies your videos, which means invidious allows connections directly to Google to load the video.
Android
On Android, there’s NewPipe and LibreTube which are well known by now.
NOTE: LibreTube uses Piped to preserve privacy and (somewhat) anonymity when watching, thus you’ll need to select some piped instance with it.
iOS
On iOS, there’s the web frontends and Yattee (github.com/yattee/yattee).
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.rocksto 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.
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.
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
I use freetube on linux, newpipe on android.
Check out LibreTube on Android!
NewPipe SponsorBlock
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.
Invidious
Best overall SmartTube for Android TV and NewPipe with SponsorBlock for Android.
Thanks, been looking for something for TV!
Or LibreTube for Android.
You’ll find a lot of answers in this thread: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/6385210
(I used Piped (https://piped.video) with LibreTube (https://libretube.dev/))
GrayJay just launched and it’s fucking fantastic.
It combines YouTube and Twitch into one platform in a really intuitive way. Has its own comment system and rating system for videos. No ads obviously. It’s a whole fucking thing and it’s incredible.
Except you have to give one app credentials for all of your platforms. It’s also 335MB!?
It’s the universal build. Download for your architecture (arm64) which is 127 mb
Credentials? What are you talking about? There is not sign in or signup required for the app at all.
Time to upgrade if your phone can’t handle 350MB lol
Time to upgrade your SSD because the new call of duty is 175GB lol.
What a fucking mindset you have on you there 💀
I get what you’re trying to say but 350 MB is close to nothing in 2023.
What are you talking about, it’s about 110 songs with a good enconder, that’s like 8~10 albums.
That’s close to nothing in 2023. It’s not 2003 where 110 songs was huge.
Have you looked at the size of most apps recently? 350mb is slightly on the big side, but nothing crazy.
I’m not saying it in relative terms, but in absolute terms. 350 MB is lots of space that can be useful, it’s certainly not “close to nothing”.
Like, I fear to imagine how much shipping fic would I have to publish annually in order to fill 350 MB in my lifetime…
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.
FreeTube https://freetubeapp.io/
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 came across this website thanks to someone sharing it here, so I thought I’d do the same: https://fmhy.pages.dev/storage/#youtube-frontends
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SmartTube is excellent on our NVidia Shield. Not sure what other platforms it works on.
Seconding SmartTube on android TV. No ads, can automatically skip all sorts of content in videos (spoken ads, self-promotion, introduction segments, etc. etc. etc.) I dread the day it stops working.
