Awesome Alternative Front-Ends

A curated list of Open Source alternative front-ends for popular websites.

Codeberg | GitHub

---

Summary

• Apple Music
• GoodReads
• Google
• Imgur
• Instructables
• Lemmy
• Mastodon
• Medium
• Reddit
• StackOverflow
• Telegram
• TikTok
• Twitch
• Twitter
• YouTube
• Youtube Music

---

List

Apple Music

• Computer App

  • Cider[Windows][MacOS][Linux] - A new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind. Source Code

GoodReads

• Web App

  • BiblioReads - An Alternative Private Goodreads Front-End. Source Code

Google

• Web App

  • Araa Search - A privacy-respecting, ad-free, self-hosted Google metasearch engine with strong security that offers full API support and utilizes Qwant for images, and DuckDuckGo for auto-complete. Source Code
  • SearXNG - SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, SearXNG can be used over Tor for online anonymity. Source Code

Imgur

• Web App

  • Rimgo - An alternative frontend for Imgur. Source Code

Instructables

• Web App

  • Indestructables - An open source alternative front-end to Instructables. Source Code

Lemmy

• Web App

  • Photon - A sleek client for Lemmy with powerful mod and admin tools. The only alternative client with feature parity to the official client. Source Code

• Smartphone App

  • Voyager[Android] - Voyager is a free and open source client for Lemmy. Voyager respects your privacy: no trackers and no advertisements. Source Code
  • Jerboa[Android] - A native android app for Lemmy. Source Code
  • Eternity[Android] - A Lemmy client for Android written in Java. It's a fork of the Infinity for Reddit project, currenty in early development. Source Code

Mastodon

• Web App

  • Elk - A nimble Mastodon web client. Source Code
  • Phanpy - A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client. Source Code

• Smartphone App

  • Moshidon[Android] - Better modification of the official Mastodon for Android app. Source Code
  • Megalodon[Android] - Pink modification of the official Mastodon for Android app. Source Code
  • Tusky[Android] - An Android client for the microblogging server Mastodon. Source Code

• Computer App

  • Sengi[Windows][MacOS][Linux] - Mastodon & Pleroma Multi-account Desktop Client. Source Code

Medium

• Web App

  • Scribe - An alternative frontend to Medium. Source Code

Reddit

• Web App

  • Eddrit - Alternative Reddit frontend. Source Code
  • Photon Reddit - Photon Reddit is a clean and modern reddit desktop client, with some cool features. Source Code
  • RDX - RDX for Reddit - An Apollo Inspired web viewer for Reddit . Source Code

• Smartphone App

  • Geddit[Android] - Geddit is an open-source, Reddit client for Android without using their API. Source Code
  • Stealth[Android] - Stealth is an account-free, privacy-oriented, and feature-rich Reddit client. Source Code
  • Infinity[Android] - A Reddit client for Android. Source Code

StackOverflow

• Web App

  • AnonymousOverflow - View StackOverflow in privacy and without the clutter. Source Code

Telegram

• Smartphone App

  • AyuGram[Android] - Just an exteraGram based client with ToS breaking features in mind. Source Code

TikTok

• Web App

  • ProxyTok - Open source alternative frontend for TikTok made using PHP. Source Code

Twitch

• Web App

  • Safe Twitch - A privacy respecting frontend for twitch.tv. Source Code
  • Twineo - A privacy focused Twitch front-end. Source Code

• Smartphone App

  • Xtra[Android] - Xtra for Twitch is a Twitch client focused on providing the best viewing and chatting experience on mobile devices. Source Code
  • Frosty[Android] - A mobile Twitch client for iOS and Android with 7TV, BetterTTV (BTTV), and FrankerFaceZ (FFZ) support. Built with Flutter. Source Code
  • Twire[Android] - Twire is an alternative and open source Twitch client for Android. Source Code

• Computer App

  • Streamlink Twitch GUI[Windows][MacOS][Linux] - A multi platform Twitch.tv browser for Streamlink. Source Code

Twitter

• Smartphone App

  • Squawker[Android] - An open-source anonymous Twitter/X client. Source Code

YouTube

• Web App

  • Invidious - Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube. Source Code
  • Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design. Source Code
  • Poketube - Be Anonymous watching epic videos, searching thingys on the interwebs and listening to music on poketube - the free yt front end thats focused on ur privacy!! Source Code
  • CloudTube - An alternative front-end for YouTube. Source Code
  • ViewTube - ViewTube is an alternative YouTube frontend that lets you watch, search and discover YouTube videos without ads or tracking. Source Code

• Smartphone App

  • New Pipe[Android] - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android. Source Code
  • LibreTube[Android] - An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android. Source Code
  • Yattee[iOS] - Privacy oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS. Source Code
  • Clipious[Android] - Client for Invidious, the privacy focused YouTube front end. Source Code

• Computer App

  • FreeTube[Windows][MacOS][Linux] - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy. Source Code
  • Youtube-viewer[MacOS][Linux] - Lightweight YouTube client for Linux. Source Code

YouTube Music

• Web App

  • Musicale - Musicale, music with style. Source Code
  • Beatbump - Alternative YouTube Music frontend built with Svelte/SvelteKit. Source Code

• Smartphone App

  • ViMusic - An Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music. Source Code

---

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.