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𝔸𝕝𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕟𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕖 Frontends

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This is a list of privacy-respecting frontends to popular services like social media. All of them are cross-plattform webapps and should work on your device no matter the OS and hardware.


ⓘ You can suggest new frontends and modifications to the list here.


YoutubeYT MusicRedditTwitterImgurTiktokMediumQuoraIMDbTranslateSearch EnginesInstagramOdyseeWikipediaTools

☰ You can jump between sections via the little menu icon above to the left.

ⓘ Check out the tools section at the bottom to find out how to easily adopt and even self-host.


YouTube

  • Invidious

  • Piped

    • Alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend. Lightweight, no ads (Sponsorblock integrated), no tracking, 4K support and more.
    • Main Instance | Repo
    • Public Instances (scroll down)
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable | Guide
    • Decentralized Options | IPNS | Onion
  • Cloudtube

    • Alternative Invidious frontend without Javascript.
    • Main Instance | Repo
    • Public Instances n/a
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable | Guide
  • Viewtube

    • Privacy-respecting frontend with subscription, watch-progress and recommendation features.
    • Main Instance | Repo
    • Public Instances n/a
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable | Guide

YouTube Music

  • BeatBump

    • Privacy-friendly YouTube Music frontend built with Svelte. Supports device sync.
    • Main Instance | Repo
    • Public Instances n/a
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable | Guide
  • Hyperpipe

    • A privacy-respecting frontend for YouTube Music, inspired by and built with the help of Piped
    • Main Instance | Repo
    • Public Instances n/a
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable | Guide

    ⓘ Hyperpipe is in early developement, please audit the code if you intend to selfhost it.

Reddit

  • Teddit

  • Libreddit

    • Privacy-focused fast Reddit frontend without ads, javascript and tracking. All requests are proxied through the server.
    • Main Instance | Repo
    • Public Instances
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable | Guide
  • Troddit

    • A significantly smaller Open Source frontend for Reddit, written in NextJS.
    • Main Instance | Repo
    • Public Instances n/a
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable | Guide

    ⓘ Uses Javascript and Vercel's audience analytics. Connects directly to Reddit without a proxy.

Twitter

Imgur

  • Rimgu

    • Lightweight Imgur frontend without Javascript and ads. Uses its own request implementation. Can use either API or scraping.
    • Main Instance n/a | Repo
    • Public Instances n/a
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable | Guide

    ⓘ Rimgu is currently in early development

  • Rimgo

    • Rewrite of Rimgu in Go. Works without JS and has several public instances, including an Onion one.
    • Main Instance | Repo
    • Public Instances
    • Pattern for Redirector: *imgur.com/* to https://i.bcow.xyz/$2
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable | Guide
    • Decentralized Options | Onion
  • Imgin

    • Lightweight Imgur frontend without Javascript and ads. Uses its own request implementation.
    • Main Instance | Repo
    • Public Instances n/a
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable

Tiktok

Medium

Quora

  • Quetre
    • Alternative front-end to Quora. It enables you to see answers without ads, trackers, and popups. Has an unofficial API.
    • Main Instance | Repo
    • Public Instances
    • Pattern for Redirector: *quora.com/* to https://quetre.herokuapp.com/$2
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable | Guide | Heroku Deploy

IMDb

  • Libremdb
    • A lightweight, ad-free and js-free alternative front-end to IMDb
    • Main Instance | Repo
    • Public Instances
    • Pattern for Redirector: https://www.imdb.com/* to https://libremd.herokuapp.com/$1
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable | Guide

Translate

Search Engines

  • Whoogle

    • Google search result frontend without Javascript, ads, cookies and tracking. Tor and HTTP/SOCKS proxy support
    • Main Instance n/a | Repo
    • Public Instances
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable | Guide
  • SearX

    • Privacy-respecting, self-hostable metasearch engine. Acts as frontend for more than 70 search services.
    • Homepage | Repo
    • Public Instances
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable
    • Decentralized Options | Onion
  • SearxNG

    • Fork of SearX with UI improvements (including to the settings page) and updates to the selfhosting procedure.
    • Homepage | Repo
    • Public Instances
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable | Guide
    • Decentralized Options | Onion

Instagram

  • Bibliogram

    • Alternative Instagram frontend without Javascript, tracking, ads and signup prompts. Currently unstable due to Instagram's server blocking.
    • Main Instance | Repo
    • Public Instances
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable | Guide

    ⓘ Bibliogram is currently not working due to Instagram blacklisting servers.

Odysee

Wikipedia


Tools

  • Farside

    • Automatically redirects to working instances of alternative frontends. Helps prevent performance bottlenecks by distributing across instances.
    • Homepage | Repo
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable | Guide
  • Privacy Redirect

    • Browser extension that automatically redirects to the alternative frontends of several services. Available for Chromium browsers and Firefox.
    • Download & Repo
    • Open-Source

    ⓘ Developement of Privacy Redirect has ended/paused, consider using LibRedirect instead

  • LibRedirect

    • Maintained fork of Privacy Redirect with new services added and a refreshed UI.
    • Homepage & Download | Repo
    • Open-Source
  • Redirector

    • If a service you want to redirect to is not supported by LibRedirect, this extension lets you manually define redirects.
    • Homepage & Download | Repo
    • Open-Source
  • SSL Labs

    • Free tool by Qualys that does a deep analysis to check the SSL implementation of a server. Helpful to check public instances. You'll find this on the Piped page for instance.
    • Homepage
    • Open-Source

    ⓘ Not Open Source, but made by a trustworthy company and operates with a good privacy policy.

  • UntrackMe

    • FOSS Android app that redirects to the alternative frontends of several services. Can also clean tracking parameters.
    • Download & Homepage | Repo
    • Open-Source
  • YunoHost

    • Novice-friendly server OS. Easily host multiple of the listed services on your own hardware (e. g. a Raspberry Pi) using templates.
    • Download & Homepage | Repo
    • Open-Source
    • Self-Hostable | Guide

This repository is not affiliated with any of the mentioned companies. Trademarks belong to their respective owners. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC. YouTube Music is a trademark of Google LLC. Google is a trademark of Google LLC. Reddit is a trademark of Reddit Inc. Twitter is a trademark of Twitter Inc. Imgur is a trademark of Imgur LLC. Instagram is a trademark of Meta Platforms. Medium is a trademark of A Medium Corporation. Tiktok is a trademark of Bytedance Ltd. IMDb is a trademark of IMDb.com, Inc. Odysee is a trademark of Odysee, Inc. Quora is a trademark of Quora Inc.