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Overview of open-source alternative for popular applications.

Contents

Overview

YouTube

Web

Desktop

  • Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

  • OpenVideoDownloader aka jely2002/youtube-dl-gui: A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js

  • yt-dlp: A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

  • Vividl: Modern Windows GUI for youtube-dl

  • Tartube: A GUI front-end for youtube-dl, partly based on youtube-dl-gui and written in Python 3 / Gtk 3

  • FreeTube: Open source YouTube desktop player for privacy on Windows, Mac and Linux

  • Youtube-viewer: Lightweight YouTube client for Linux

  • minitube: Lightweight youtube client with a kid-friendly interface. Can make playlists from search keywords

  • smtube: Stand-alone YouTube video player

  • ytcc: Command line tool to keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube and many other places. Can import youtube subscriptions from Google Takeout and provide them as an RSS feed for your favorite reader

  • ytfzf: A POSIX script that helps you find Youtube videos (without API) and opens/downloads them using mpv/youtube-dl

Mobile

  • NewPipe: A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android

  • NewPipe with SponsorBlock & Return YouTube Dislike: A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike functionality.

  • LibreTube: Android frontend for YouTube, based on Piped

  • oleksis/youtube-dl-gui: Cross-platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython

  • VueTube: A simple and open source video streaming client aimed to recreate ALL the features from their respective apps. Built on Vue

  • Hyperion: A modern alternate YouTube front-end for Android/

  • SkyTube: An open-source YouTube app for Android

  • uYouPlus: uYouPlus (uYou+) is an alternative YouTube app for Apple's iOS and iPadOS

TV

  • SmartTubeNext: SmartTubeNext is an advanced YouTube app for Android TVs and TV boxes, free and open source. It is not a live TV client and does not support "YouTube TV"

  • yattee: Alternative YouTube frontend for iOS, tvOS and macOS built with Invidious and Piped, supports sponsorblock

  • ytcast: Cast YouTube videos to your smart TV from the command line. This program does roughly the same thing as the "Play on TV" button that appears on the player bar when you visit youtube.com with Chrome or when you use the YouTube smartphone app

YouTube Music

Desktop

  • ytmdesktop: Cross-platform (Windows, Mac, and Linux) desktop app for YouTube Music. Has a (proprietary?) remote control app for Android

  • th-ch/youtube-music: YouTube Music desktop app based on Electron bundled with custom plugins (including built-in ad blocker and downloader)

Web

Mobile

  • AudioTube: Client for YouTube Music. Plasma-mobile project with an interface designed for Linux phones

  • BlackHole: Android music player app for YouTube Music and Spotify made with Flutter

  • ViMusic: An Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music

  • InnerTune: A material design YouTube Music client for Android

Twitter

Desktop

  • Tweepy: Twitter for Python

  • Tweeterr: A tool to use Twitter from the command line on the fly

Web

Mobile

  • Shitter: Android, alternative front-end for Twitter, built with Java

  • Harpy: Android, alternative front-end for Twitter, built with Flutter/Dart

  • Twidere X: Android, alternative front-end for Twitter, built mostly with Kotlin, in early stage

  • Tweet-app: Desktop Twitter client only for tweeting. Timeline never shows up

  • Fritter: A free, open-source Twitter client for Android

  • Dabr: a PHP web interface to the Twitter API for mobile devices.

    • Website: https://dabr.co.uk/
    • This is not a native application. It needs to be opened in a browser. Suitable for old devices like Symbian phones and old Android devices

Reddit

Web

Mobile

TikTok

Web

Imgur

Web

Mobile

  • ImgurViewer: a little image viewer to open image links from external applications in the fastest way possible.

Spotify

Desktop

  • psst: Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI

  • Spotiqueue: Minimalistic queue-oriented macOS-native client for Spotify, with Guile Scheme scriptability

  • spot: Gtk/Rust native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop. Only works with premium accounts

  • spotube: A lightweight and free Spotify crossplatform-client which handles playback manually, streams music using Youtube & no Spotify premium account is needed

  • SpotX: Modified Spotify Client for Windows (Windows Only) - Blocking ads and updates for the desktop version of Spotify, disabling podcasts and more

  • kotify: Requires Spotify Account - Multiplatform desktop client for Spotify focused on library organization for power users. Relies on official Spotify client for playback

  • librespot: Requires Spotify Premium Account - librespot is an open source client library for Spotify. It enables applications to use Spotify's service to control and play music via various backends, and to act as a Spotify Connect receiver. It is an alternative to the official and now deprecated closed-source libspotify. Additionally, it will provide extra features which are not available in the official library

  • oggify: Download Spotify tracks to Ogg Vorbis (with a Spotify premium account), based on librespot

  • Spytify: A Spotify recorder for Windows which records Spotify audio without recording or playing ads, ensuring no loss in sound quality.

  • Spicetify: Command-line tool to customize the official Spotify client. Supports Windows, MacOS and Linux.

Mobile

  • Spotube: a Flutter based lightweight spotify client. It utilizes the power of Spotify & Youtube's public API & creates a hazardless, performant & resource friendly User Experience

  • xManager: An android application where you can manage and install all versions of the spotify app.

Apple Music

Desktop

  • Cider: Cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind

Twitch

Desktop

Mobile

  • Twire: Alternative and open source Twitch client for Android

  • Xtra: Twitch player and browser for Android

  • S0undTV: An alternative app to watch the Twitch streaming service for Android TV devices

Discord

Desktop

  • gtkcord4: A lightweight Discord client written in Golang which uses GTK3 for the user interface

  • Abaddon: An alternative Discord client made with C++/gtkmm

  • Accord: A discord client for modern macs

  • Swiftcord: Native Discord client for macOS built in Swift

  • Discordo: A lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord terminal client built with Go

  • ChimeraCord: A functional but elegant unofficial Discord client for freeBSD, that aims for feature-parity with the official Discord client.

  • ArmCord: ArmCord is a custom client designed to enhance your Discord experience while keeping everything lightweight.

  • datcord: An open-source discord client using Firefox

  • purpe-discord: A libpurple/Pidgin plugin for Discord

  • Fosscord: A free open source selfhostable discord compatible chat, voice and video platform

  • litecord: An open source, clean-room design reimplementation of Discord's HTTP API and Gateway in Python 3

Mobile

  • OpenCord: An open-source Material You implementation of the Discord Android app

Google Chrome

Desktop

Mobile

  • Fenix: Firefox for Android

  • Brave: A fast, free, secure web browser for your mobile devices.

  • Bromite: a Chromium fork with support for ad blocking and enhanced privacy.

  • Mull: A privacy oriented and deblobbed web browser based on Mozilla technology. It enables many features upstreamed by the Tor Uplift project using preferences from the arkenfox-user.js project.

Google Search

Web

  • Whoogle Search: A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine for Google

  • Searx: Searx is a free privacy-respecting internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, searx can be used over Tor for online anonymity

  • SearXNG: SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled (SearXNG is a fork of searx)

  • LibreX: Privacy respecting free meta search engine (free as in freedom)

    • Small and simple meta search engine, fetches and anonymizes results from Google only, has API support, allows redirects to Invidious/ Bibliogram/ Nitter/ Libreddit

Mobile

  • Gugal: A clean, lightweight, FOSS web search app.

Google Translate

Desktop

  • Crow Translate: Simple and lightweight cross-platform translator that allows translation using LibreTranslate, Lingva, Google, Bing, and Yandex, as well as text-to-speech using Google

Web

Mobile

  • DeepL Android: Unofficial Android client for DeepL

  • SimplyTranslate Mobile: Unofficial Android client of SimplyTranslate.

  • InstaLate: Distraction-free translation for Android, to be used directly from within any app. Supports Beolingus, DeepL, Dict.cc, GNU CIDE, Heinzelnisse, LibreTranslate, Linguee, WikDict and Wiktionary.

Google Play Store

Mobile

  • Aurora Store: An Open Source alternative for Google Play Store

  • F-droid: An installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform.

    • It's not a direct alternative as it only has applications that are open source which may or may not be present in the Play store.

  • Neo Store: An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.

Google Authenticator

Mobile

  • Aegis: A free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens.

  • Authenticator Pro: Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) client for Android + Wear OS

Google Maps

Web

  • OpenStreetMap: built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafĂ©s, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.

Mobile

  • StreetComplete: Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android.

  • OsmAnd: A map and navigation application with access to the free, worldwide, and high-quality OpenStreetMap (OSM) database.

Gmail

Desktop

  • Thunderbird: A free open-source cross-platform email client.

  • Mailspring: A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.

Mobile

  • FairEmail: Fully featured, open source, privacy friendly email app for Android

  • K-9 Mail: an open-source email client for Android

Gboard

Mobile

  • OpenBoard: 100% FOSS keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy.

  • FlorisBoard: A free and open-source keyboard for Android 7.0+ devices. It aims at being modern, user-friendly and customizable while fully respecting your privacy. Currently in early-beta state.

  • Simple Keyboard: This keyboard is created for those who only need a keyboard and nothing more. No emoji, GIFs, Swipe typing, Spell checker. <1MB size.

Facebook

Mobile

  • Frost: An extensive and functional third party app for Facebook (Android app)

Facebook Messenger

Desktop

  • Caprine: Unofficial and privacy-focused Facebook Messenger app with many useful features

Mastodon

Desktop

  • Hyperspace: cross-platform Mastodon client for the fediverse written in TypeScript and React. (Archived - Nov 9, 2022)

  • Sengi: cross-platform multi-account Mastodon & Pleroma desktop client

  • TheDesk: cross-platform Mastodon & Misskey desktop client

  • Tootle: simple GTK-based Linux Mastodon client. (Archived - Nov 9, 2022)

  • Whalebird: An Electron-based Mastodon, Pleroma and Misskey client for Windows, Mac and Linux

  • Tokodon: A Mastodon client for Plasma and Plasma Mobile

Web

Mobile

  • Tusky: lightweight Android Mastodon client

  • SubwayTooter: A Mastodon client app for Android phone/tablet.

  • Fedilab: multi-account Android Mastodon client. (Archived)

  • Metatext: A free, open-source iOS Mastodon client. (Archived - Dec 1, 2022)

Telegram

Web

Mobile

  • Telegram-FOSS: Unofficial, FOSS-friendly fork of the original Telegram client for Android

  • Forkgram: A fork of the official Telegram for Android application.

  • Nekogram: An open-source third-party Telegram client with not many but useful mods.

  • NekoX: A free and open source third-party Telegram client, based on Telegram-FOSS with features added (including from Nekogram).

  • Nagram: A third-party Telegram client based on NekoX with some modifications.

  • Nullgram: A free and open source third-party Telegram client, based on Telegram, NekoX and Nekogram.

  • Owlgram: An unofficial messaging app that uses Telegram's API.

Signal

Mobile

  • Molly: A hardened version of Signal for Android, the fast simple yet secure messaging app by Signal Foundation.

  • Signal-JW: A Signal fork with extra options added.

  • Langis: Signal without Google Play Services support.

Zoom

Cross-platform

  • Jitsi Meet: A set of Open Source projects which empower users to use and deploy video conferencing platforms with state-of-the-art video quality and features.

  • Jami: A free software for universal communication which respects freedoms and privacy of its users. P2P. Backed by GNU

CCleaner

Desktop

LastPass

Cross-platform

Desktop

  • KeepassXC: A modern, cross-platform, secure, and open-source password manager. Requires no internet connection.

  • vaultwarden: Password manager. Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs

Mobile

  • Keepass2Android: A Password manager app for Android. Requires no internet connection.

Nova Launcher

Mobile

  • Neo Launcher: A fork of AOSP's launcher for power-users.

  • Lawnchair: A free, open-source home app for Android. It ports Pixel Launcher features and introduces rich options for customization.

  • KISS Launcher: Blazingly fast launcher focused on search.

Medium

Web

Reuters

Web

  • Neuters: An alternative front-end to Reuters.com. It is intented to be lightweight and fast, and was heavily inspired by Nitter

Apple AirPlay

Desktop

  • RPiPlay: An open-source AirPlay mirroring server for the Raspberry Pi. Supports iOS 9 and up.

  • air-pi-play: Turn a Raspberry Pi into an Airplay server using RPiPlay to enable screen mirroring on tvs, monitors and projectors.

Shazam

Desktop

  • SongRec: Open-source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust

Adobe Reader

Desktop

  • SumatraPDF: A free and open-source document viewer for Windows that supports many document formats including: PDF, eBook (epub, mobi), comic book (cbz/cbr), DjVu, XPS, and CHM.

Mobile

Quora

Web

Pastebin

Web

  • NoPaste: NoPaste is an open-source website similar to Pastebin where you can store any piece of code, and generate links for easy sharing

  • PrivateBin: Zero knowledge encrypted paste-bin. A minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES

Hacker News

Web

Mobile

Other services

  • MediathekViewWeb: Video content of German public-service television broadcasters (e.g. ARD, ZDF)

  • snapdrop: Similar to Apple's Airdrop but in your browser. A Progressive Web App for local file sharing

  • hedgedoc: Collaborative markdown editor. A platform to write and share markdown

  • etherpad-lite: Collaborative rich text editor. A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor

  • gitea: Lightweight git server. Git with a cup of tea, painless self-hosted git service

  • ArchiveBox: Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more

  • Librarian: Alternative frontend for LBRY / Odysee.com

Redirection

  • Privacy Redirect: A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram & Google Maps requests to privacy friendly alternatives

  • libredirect: A web extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends and backends. Actively maintained fork of Privacy Redirect that supports Youtube, Youtube Music, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Imgur, Reddit, Searx, Google Translate, Google Maps, Wikipedia, and Medium

  • Farside: Farside provides links that automatically redirect to working instances of privacy-oriented alternative frontends, such as Nitter, Libreddit, etc. This allows for users to have more reliable access to the available public instances for a particular service, while also helping to distribute traffic more evenly across all instances and avoid performance bottlenecks and rate-limiting.

  • UntrackMe: UntrackMe transforms Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Reddit and Medium and Wikipedia links to links of open source, privacy friendly front-ends. Converts Google Maps links to OpenStreetMap links. Removes tracking parameters from any url. Then delegates the action to other apps that are capable of handling them. (Android app)

Related projects

Call to Action

  • Do you know any other free/open-source projects that are not included in the overview yet? (front ends, alternatives to websites, apps, etc.)
  • Just create an issue here or in the original repo and let me know. I'm always looking for new free/open-source projects to add.

About this repository

This is a fork of alternative-front-ends. In my opinion, the scope of the original repo has already diverted from just being a catalog of alternative front-ends. This list tries to incorporate not just alternative front-ends but also an alternative open-source application.

This overview originally included three alternative front-ends: Invidious (for YouTube), Bibliogram (for Instagram) and Nitter (for Twitter). Therefore it was named alternative front-ends. As more projects have been added to the repository, the listed projects partially left the scope of alternative front-ends.

For example, youtube-dl is not a front-end, but can be generally described as an open source project that interacts with the internet platform Youtube.

Therefore the name alternative front-ends does not capture the full scope of the listed projects anymore. Maybe this repository will be renamed in the future to better reflect the larger scope. A possible name might be open-source-alternatives or something similar.

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Overview of open-source alternative for popular applications.

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