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A curated list of awesome alternative, privacy-friendly frontends.
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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

Mobile

DeepL Android

Unofficial Android App for DeepL Translator

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

Get it on F-Droid Get it on GitHub

Facebook

Mobile

Frost

An extensive and functional third party app for Facebook

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

Get it on F-Droid Get it on GitHub

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

Get it on F-Droid Direct APK Download

SimplyTranslate Mobile

An alternative front-end to GoogleTranslate

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

Get it on F-Droid

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

Get it on F-Droid

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"> Get it on F-Droid Get it on GitHub

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"> Get it on F-Droid Get it on GitHub

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

Download on Flathub

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

Get it on F-Droid Get it on GitHub

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"> Get it on F-Droid Get it on GitHub

Shitter

Lightweight Twitter app for Android

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

Get it on F-Droid

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

Get it on GitHub

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

Get it on F-Droid Get it on GitHub

SkyTube

Copylefted libre / open source YouTube player for Android

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

Get it on F-Droid Get it on GitHub

LibreTube

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

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

Get it on F-Droid Get it on GitHub

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

Get it on GitHub

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

Get it on GitHub

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

Get it on GitHub

Mobile

BlackHole

A Music Player App made with Flutter

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

Get it on F-Droid Get it on GitHub

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