awesome-alternative-frontends

A curated list of awesome alternative, privacy-friendly frontends. Note that this list also contains frontends that are not focused on privacy.

If anything is missing, feel free to open a pull request!

Table of Contents

• DeepL
• Facebook
• Google
• Google Translate
• Imgur
• Instagram
• Mastodon
• Medium
• Odysee
• Reddit
• Reuters
• Spotify
• StackOverflow
• Telegram
• TikTok
• Twitter
• Wikipedia
• Youtube
• Youtube Music

DeepL

Mobile

DeepL Android

Unofficial Android App for DeepL Translator

Repository	https://github.com/sakusaku3939/DeepLAndroid
Android?	🟢 Yes
iOS?	🟥 No

Facebook

Mobile

Frost

An extensive and functional third party app for Facebook

Repository	https://github.com/AllanWang/Frost-for-Facebook
Android?	🟢 Yes
iOS?	🟥 No

Google

Web

4get

4get is a proxy search engine that doesn't suck

Repository	https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get
Instances list	https://4get.ca/instances
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟥 No

Whoogle

A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine

Repository	https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
Instances list	https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#public-instances=
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟥 No

LibreX

A privacy respecting free as in freedom meta search engine

Repository	https://github.com/hnhx/librex
Instances list	https://github.com/hnhx/librex#online-instances=
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟢 Yes

SearXNG

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

Repository	https://github.com/searxng/searxng
Instances list	https://searx.space
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟢 Yes

Google Translate

Web

Lingva

Alternative front-end for Google Translate

Repository	https://github.com/TheDavidDelta/lingva-translate
Instances list	https://github.com/TheDavidDelta/lingva-translate#instances=
Javascript required?	🟥 Yes
API available?	🟢 Yes

SimplyTranslate

Web Interface for SimplyTranslate built with python and quart https://simplytranslate.org

Repository	https://codeberg.org/SimpleWeb/SimplyTranslate-Web
Instances list	https://simple-web.org/projects/simplytranslate.html
Javascript required?	🟥 Yes
API available?	🟢 Yes

Desktop

Crow Translate

A simple and lightweight translator that allows you to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex Bing, LibreTranslate and Lingva.

Repository	https://github.com/crow-translate/crow-translate
Windows?	🟢 Yes
macOS?	🟥 No
Linux?	🟢 Yes

Mobile

InstaLate

Online dictionary - Translate content directly in your apps

InstaLate supports multiple translation providers such as SimplyTranslate, DeepL, Dict.cc, Linguee and many more. See here for a list of all supported providers

Repository	https://gitlab.com/concept1tech/instalate
Android?	🟢 Yes
iOS?	🟥 No

SimplyTranslate Mobile

An alternative front-end to GoogleTranslate

Repository	https://github.com/ManeraKai/simplytranslate_mobile
Android?	🟢 Yes
iOS?	🟥 No

Imgur

Web

Rimgo

Self-hosted frontend for imgur. Rewritten in Go. https://i.bcow.xyz

Repository	https://codeberg.org/video-prize-ranch/rimgo
Instances list	https://codeberg.org/video-prize-ranch/rimgo#instances
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟥 No

Rimgu

Self-hosted frontend for imgur

Repository	https://codeberg.org/3np/rimgu
Instances list	🟥 Not available
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟢 Yes

Rimgu

Self-hosted frontend for imgur

Repository	https://codeberg.org/3np/rimgu
Instances list	🟥 Not available
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟥 No

Omgur

Private front-end for Imgur

Repository	https://git.geraldwu.com/gerald/omgur
Instances list	🟥 Not available
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟥 No (Included in it's roadmap, https://git.geraldwu.com/gerald/omgur#far-future-roadmap)

Imgrs

Private front-end for Imgur

Repository	https://git.geraldwu.com/gerald/imgrs
Instances list	🟥 Not available
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟥 No (Included in it's roadmap, https://git.geraldwu.com/gerald/imgrs#far-future-roadmap)

Instagram

Instagram is known to aggresively block alternative frontends. Please help the community by hosting your own service

Bibliogram

An alternative front-end for Instagram.

Bibliogram has been discontinued. Use at your own risk.

Repository	https://sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram/
Instances list	https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram-docs/tree/master/docs/Instances.md
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟥 No

Mastodon

Web

Pinafore

Alternative web client for Mastodon

Repository	https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore
Instances list	🟥 Not available
Javascript required?	🟥 Yes
API available?	🟥 No

Medium

Web

Scribe

An Alternative Medium Frontend

Repository	https://sr.ht/~edwardloveall/scribe/
Instances list	🟥 Not available
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟥 No

Odysee

Web

Librarian

An alternative frontend for LBRY/Odysee.

Repository	https://codeberg.org/librarian/librarian
Instances list	https://codeberg.org/librarian/librarian#instances
Javascript required?	🟥 Yes for video playing; 🟢 No for everything else
API available?	🟥 No

Reddit

Web

Redlib

Private front-end for Reddit

Repository	https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
Instances list	https://stats.uptimerobot.com/mpmqAs1G2Q
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟥 No

Libreddit

Libreddit has been discontinued. Use Redlib instead.

Teddit

alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy https://teddit.net

Repository	https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit
Instances list	https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit#instances
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	Yes 🟡 (Unofficial)

Troddit

A web client for Reddit with authenticated logins and a variety of browsing options

Repository	https://github.com/burhan-syed/troddit
Instances list	https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit#instances=
Javascript required?	🟥 Yes
API available?	🟥 No

Mobile

Stealth

Stealth is an account-free, privacy-oriented, and feature-rich Reddit client.

Repository	https://gitlab.com/cosmosapps/stealth
Android?	🟢 Yes
iOS?	🟥 No

Infinity

A Reddit client for Android

Repository	https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit
Android?	🟢 Yes
iOS?	🟥 No

<img src="https://play.google.com/intl/en_us/badges/images/generic/en-play-badge.png" alt="Get it on Google Play" height="80">

Dawn

Here lives the greatest open-source Reddit app

Repository	https://github.com/Tunous/Dawn
Android?	🟢 Yes
iOS?	🟥 No

<img src="https://play.google.com/intl/en_us/badges/images/generic/en-play-badge.png" alt="Get it on Google Play" height="80">

Reuters

Web

Neuters

Reuters Redirect and Proxy

Repository	https://github.com/HookedBehemoth/neuters
Instances list	🟥 Not available
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟥 No

Spotify

Desktop

Psst

Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI

A Spotify Premium Account is required

Repository	https://github.com/jpochyla/psst
Windows?	Supported 🟡
macOS?	🟢 Yes
Linux?	Supported 🟡

Spotiqueue

Dead-simple queue-oriented client for Spotify

Repository	https://github.com/toothbrush/Spotiqueue
Windows?	🟥 No
macOS?	🟢 Yes
Linux?	🟥 No

Spot

Native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop

A Spotify Premium Account is required

Repository	https://github.com/xou816/spot
Windows?	🟥 No
macOS?	🟥 No
Linux?	🟢 Yes

StackOverflow

Web

AnonymousOverflow

View StackOverflow in privacy and without the clutter.

Repository	https://github.com/httpjamesm/AnonymousOverflow
Instances list	https://github.com/httpjamesm/AnonymousOverflow?tab=readme-ov-file#clearnet-instances
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟥 No

Telegram

Telegram-FOSS

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

Repository	https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS
Android?	🟢 Yes
iOS?	🟥 No

TikTok

Web

ProxiTok

Open source alternative frontend for TikTok made using PHP

Repository	https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok
Instances list	https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok/wiki/Public-instances
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟥 No

Twitter

Web

Nitter

Alternative Twitter front-end

Repository	https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Instances list	https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟥 No (Included in it's roadmap, https://github.com/zedeus/nitter#roadmap=)

Mobile

Fritter

A privacy-friendly Twitter frontend for mobile devices

Repository	https://github.com/jonjomckay/fritter
Android?	🟢 Yes
iOS?	🟥 No

<img src="https://play.google.com/intl/en_us/badges/images/generic/en-play-badge.png" alt="Get it on Google Play" height="80">

Shitter

Lightweight Twitter app for Android

Repository	https://github.com/nuclearfog/Shitter
Android?	🟢 Yes
iOS?	🟥 No

Wikipedia

Web

Wikiless

A free open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy

Repository	https://codeberg.org/orenom/wikiless
Instances list	https://codeberg.org/orenom/wikiless#instances
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟥 No

YouTube

Web

Invidious

Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube.

Repository	https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
Instances list	https://docs.invidious.io/instances/
Javascript required?	🟢 No
API available?	🟢 Yes

Piped

An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

Repository	https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
Instances list	https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances
Javascript required?	🟥 Yes
API available?	🟢 Yes

Desktop

FreeTube

An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

Repository	https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
Windows?	🟢 Yes
macOS?	🟢 Yes
Linux?	🟢 Yes

YouTube-Viewer

Lightweight YouTube client for Linux

Repository	https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer
Windows?	🟥 No
macOS?	🟥 No
Linux?	🟢 Yes

Yattee

Alternative YouTube frontend for iOS (iPhone, iPad), macOS and tvOS (Apple TV) built with Invidious and Piped

Repository	https://github.com/yattee/yattee
Windows?	🟥 No
macOS?	🟢 Yes
Linux?	🟥 No

Mobile

NewPipe

A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

Repository	https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
Android?	🟢 Yes
iOS?	🟥 No

SkyTube

Copylefted libre / open source YouTube player for Android

Repository	https://github.com/SkyTubeTeam/SkyTube
Android?	🟢 Yes
iOS?	🟥 No

LibreTube

An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android. [WIP]

Repository	https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube
Android?	🟢 Yes
iOS?	🟥 No

uYouPlus

uYou+ is a modified version of uYou (made by @MiRO92) with additional features and mainly made for non jailbroken users!

Repository	https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus
Android?	🟥 No
iOS?	🟢 Yes

Yattee

Alternative YouTube frontend for iOS (iPhone, iPad), macOS and tvOS (Apple TV) built with Invidious and Piped

Repository	https://github.com/yattee/yattee
Android?	🟥 No
iOS?	🟢 Yes

TV

SmartTubeNext

Ad free app for watching tube videos on Android TV boxes

Repository	https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
AndroidTV?	🟢 Yes
fireTV?	🟢 Yes
webOS?	🟥 No
tizenOS?	🟥 No
tvOS?	🟥 No

Yattee

Alternative YouTube frontend for iOS (iPhone, iPad), macOS and tvOS (Apple TV) built with Invidious and Piped

Repository	https://github.com/yattee/yattee
AndroidTV?	🟥 No
fireTV?	🟥 No
webOS?	🟥 No
tizenOS?	🟥 No
tvOS?	🟢 Yes

Youtube Music

Web

Beatbump

Alternative YouTube Music frontend built with Svelte/SvelteKit 🎧

Repository	https://github.com/snuffyDev/Beatbump
Instances list	🟥 Not available
Javascript required?	🟥 Yes
API available?	🟥 No

Desktop

Youtube Music

YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader)

Repository	https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music
Windows?	🟢 Yes
macOS?	🟢 Yes
Linux?	🟢 Yes

Mobile

BlackHole

A Music Player App made with Flutter

Repository	https://github.com/Sangwan5688/BlackHole
Android?	🟢 Yes
iOS?	🟥 No

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