Social Media - anonymously use twitter, YouTube, reddit, etc...
An online alternative front-end to YouTube. Open-source (AGPLv3 licensed)
[The instance at invidio.us made by Omar Roth was closed in September 2020. You can select another instance and the project can still be found on GitHub. However, Omar developed this in the rare Crystal language, which has few developers.]
Features:
- Lightweight (homepage is ~4 KB compressed)
- No ads
- Doesn't require JS to play videos / Doesn't use any of the official YouTube APIs (It does not use the YouTube API or YouTube Javascript, but still the request to Youtube will be forwarded including your IP.)
- Audio-only mode (and no need to keep window open on mobile)
- No registration required or No email address required for registration
- Your playlist via registration
- No need to create a Google account to save subscriptions
- Tools for managing subscriptions:
- Only show unseen videos
- Only show latest (or latest unseen) video from each channel
- Delivers notifications from all subscribed channels
- Automatically redirect homepage to feed
- Import subscriptions from YouTube
- Download Videos
- Picture in Picture
- Set default player options (speed, quality, autoplay, loop)
- Dark mode
- Embed support
- Support for Reddit comments in place of YT comments
- Import/Export subscriptions, watch history, preferences
- Export for Invidious (JSON) / NewPipe (OPML)
- Multi-language
- Developer API
Invidious is used by other apps via Invidious API.
A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy. Inspired by the invidio.us project.
- No JavaScript or ads
- All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter
- Prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint
- Unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)
- AGPLv3 licensed, no proprietary instances permitted
- Dark theme
- Lightweight (for @nim_lang, 36KB vs 580KB from twitter.com)
A free and open source alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy. Inspired by the Nitter project.
- No JavaScript or ads
- All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Reddit
- Prevents Reddit from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint
- Lightweight (teddit frontpage: ~30 HTTP requests with ~270 KB of data downloaded vs. Reddit frontpage: ~190 requests with ~24 MB)
NetNewsWire is a news RSS aggregator for MacOS, iOS and iPadOS.
We value stability, performance, quality, platform-specific design and accessibility.
Features for MacOS include:
- Safari extension for easy feed-adding
- Direct feed-downloading
- Syncing via Feedbin
- Sharing to Mail, MarsEdit, Micro.blog, Notes, Messages, and so on
- Easy keyboard navigation
- Single-key keyboard shortcuts
- AppleScript support
- Dark Mode
- Starred articles
- All Unread and Today smart feeds
- Folders
- Background refreshing
- Importing and exporting OPML feed lists
- Searching
- Help book
- Multiple accounts
- Customizable toolbar
We’ll be adding more in future releases, of course, including support for more syncing services.
Features for iOS/iPadOS include:
- Direct feed-downloading
- Syncing via Feedbin and Feedly
- Multiple accounts
- Dark Mode
- Reader view
- Share sheet
- Starred articles
- All Unread and Today smart feeds
- Folders
- Importing and exporting OPML feed lists
- Background refreshing
- Searching
- Hiding read articles
- Timeline customization
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Context menus
- Support for multiple windows
The version 1.0 was introduced in 2002 by Brent Simmons. It included custom feed views, custom downloading and opening of podcasts, synchronization of feeds and feed status between computers, Bloglines support, and a built-in tabbed browser.
Over the years, new features were added (also support for iPhone and iPad) and it was acquired by NewsGator Technologies in 2005 and later by Black Pixel in 2011.
On August 31, 2018 Black Pixel announced that they have returned the NetNewsWire intellectual property to Brent Simmons, that completely rewrote the program as a Free and Opensource Mac RSS reader.
Now version 5.0 is at a very early stage and supports RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, and RSS-in-JSON formats.
