Invidious
- About
- Open-source YouTube front-end without ads or tracking. Open-source alternative to YouTube.
- Catalogue
- No. 313
- Category
- Media
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Overview
Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube. It lets you watch videos, follow channels and keep subscriptions without ads, tracking or a Google account. You can use one of the public instances or host your own.
What it does well
Invidious is lightweight and works without JavaScript. It offers light and dark themes, a customizable homepage, notifications for subscribed channels, an audio-only mode with background play on mobile, and YouTube comments. Subscriptions and watch history can be imported from YouTube, NewPipe and FreeTube, and a developer API is available. It does not use the official YouTube APIs.
Why it’s in the collection
Invidious gives you YouTube's videos without its ads, tracking and algorithmic feed, and your subscriptions stay independent of Google. It is AGPL-licensed.
On GitHub
- Stars
- 0
- Forks
- 0
- Commits
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- Repository
- iv-org/invidious
Languages
- Crystal 74.1%
- HTML 12.5%
- JavaScript 7.5%
- Other 5.9%
Compared with
YouTubeGoogle's video platform, with ads, tracking and recommendations.- YouTube PremiumPaid YouTube subscription that removes ads but keeps tracking.
PeerTubeNo. 347Open-source, federated video hosting platform.
See every open-source alternative to YouTube in the collection.
