ViewTube
Alternative YouTube frontend providing ad-free viewing, private search and discovery, independent account creation, dark and light themes, playlist and comment access, channel subscriptions, push notifications, and touch-friendly controls for all devices.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted
The project has been paused by the developer in January 2025: https://github.com/ViewTube/viewtube/discussions/3002
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- Ad-free
- No registration required
- Dark Mode
- Allows subscriptions
SponsorBlock Integration
Tags
- Youtube player
- frontend
ViewTube News & Activities
Recent activities
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ViewTube information
Developed by
Maurice OegerliLicensing
Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Alternatives
37 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Category
Video & MoviesGitHub repository
- 1,444 Stars
- 83 Forks
- 80 Open Issues
- Updated
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What is ViewTube?
ViewTube is an alternative YouTube frontend that lets you watch, search and discover YouTube videos without ads or tracking.
It's built to be mobile and desktop friendly, with dark and light themes, and a touch-friendly video player with gestures. You can create an account separately from YouTube, read comments, watch playlists, subscribe to channels and receive push notifications for new uploads It's built using Nuxt and Nest.
Features
- Watch videos without ads or tracking /
SponsorBlock - Read comments
- Search for videos
- Subscribe to channels and see their latest uploads
- Receive push notifications for subscribed channels
- Responsive: mobile and desktop friendly
Comments and Reviews
Viewtube shows only first 100 songs in playlist. At least it can play continuously playlist and can find public playlist.
I tested Viewtube and for me its terrible to use because he have a lot of bugs I will write some of them first thing that is hard to make is account and Login into your account this thing is super hard to make it because most of times the system have bugs second thing is quality of the video when you choose high quality Viewtube set lower quality and the last thing I don't like is that when you log out ViewTube don't save your account data and you will start making your account AGAIN