PeerTube
A free, decentralized and federated video platform that allows peer-to-peer video streaming. Supports interoperability via ActivityPub, customizable user interface, video embedding, and follows channels from across the Fediverse without data mining or ads.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Self-Hosted
- F-Droid
- Cloudron
Features
Properties
- Free Speech
- Privacy focused
- Support for Themes
Features
- Live Streaming
- Decentralized
- Video Hosting
- Ad-free
- Peer-To-Peer
- Share Videos
- Federated
Support for ActivityPub
- GNU/linux-libre
- Dark Mode
- Fediverse
- Support for HD videos
- Support for WebTorrent
- HTTPS Support
- Comment section
- No Tracking
- Support for 4K
- Federated Cloud
- Support for SD videos
- No registration required
- AirPlay Support
- Two-factor Authentication
- Multi-streaming
- Personalized Recommendations
- Picture in Picture
- Kids Mode
- Chromecast Support
Tags
- videos
PeerTube News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about PeerTube
The PeerTube mobile app now integrates a creator mode for video upload and managementFollowing the release of PeerTube v8 last week, the PeerTube mobile app now introduces a creator mo...
- POX published news article about PeerTube
PeerTube v8 launches with redesigned video player, collaborative channel management & morePeerTube v8 marks the latest major version of the decentralized, federated video hosting platform b...
- POX published news article about PeerTube
PeerTube 7.3 brings email translation, live stream scheduling, and admin UI upgradesFramasoft has announced PeerTube version 7.3, bringing major upgrades to this open source, decentra...
Recent activities
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What is PeerTube?
PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform developed as an alternative to other platforms that centralize our data and attention, such as YouTube, Dailymotion or Vimeo. But one organization hosting PeerTube alone may not have enough money to pay for bandwidth and video storage of its servers, all servers of PeerTube are interoperable as a federated network, and non-PeerTube servers can be part of the larger Vidiverse (federated video network) by talking our implementation of ActivityPub. Video load is reduced thanks to P2P (BitTorrent) in the web browser via WebTorrent.
Video streaming Just upload your videos, and be sure they will stream anywhere. Add a description, some tags and your video will be discoverable by the entire video fediverse, not just your instance. You can even embed a player on your favorite website!
Keep in touch with video creators Follow your favorite channels from PeerTube or really any other place. No need to have an account on the instance you watched a video to follow its author, you can do all of that from the Fediverse (Mastodon, Pleroma…), or just with RSS.
An interface to call home Be it as a user or an instance administrator, you can decide what your experience will be like. Don't like the colors? They are easy to change. Don't want to list videos of an instance but let your users subscribe to them? Don't like the regular web client? All of that can be changed, and much more. No UX dark pattern, no mining your data, no video recommendation bullshit.
Communities that help each other In addition to visitors using WebTorrent to share the load among them, instances can help each other by caching one another's videos. This way even small instances have a way to show content to a wider audience, as they will be shouldered by friend instances. Content creators can get help from their viewers in the simplest way possible: a support button showing a message linking to their donation accounts or really anything else.










Comments and Reviews
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i love open source and it better then youtube
Has nice UI and good performance. I love to use it
needs a better search engine honestly. i can never find right videos with the current one (sepiasearch).
I found incredibly complicated to use. Even worse than odysee. Tried from official website and it is not intuitive. I found link for google store in here but not in their page, i had impression this website was designed back to 1990, functional but many scrolls to see 5 thumbnails videos. And when i searched some keywords, sometimes i got zero results. “Moon” has very few videos fr example.
The federation model means sites can share videos with each other. And there's some good content that doesn't seek to "game the algorithm" like on youtube. But you have to be careful which sites you use because some of them definitely have some harmful stuff. (Youtube has harmful stuff too but I think people are more forgiving about it on yt because of the algorithm). It also sucks that you can't use noscript with it because peertube uses javascript.
The only federated youtube alternative. Having support for activitypub in a video hosting platform is a great idea