YouTube Alternatives

YouTube provides video streaming with seamless social media integration and robust content management tools. Users praise its vast content library and contributions to content accessibility and creativity, but complain about overwhelming ads, censorship, and unfair monetization practices.

PeerTube enhances video streaming with peer-to-peer technology that reduces server load while supporting adaptive bitrate streaming across various devices. Its federated network allows users to share content across different instances, enhancing accessibility and redundancy. Odysee offers decentralized video hosting that ensures content ownership and freedom of expression through secure uploads. Vimeo provides high-quality video hosting with privacy controls and customizable players, supporting adaptive streaming for businesses and creators. BitChute emphasizes free speech and independence from major corporations through its peer-to-peer platform and reliable content management. Rumble enables users to distribute content across various platforms with minimal buffering, though some find the interface less intuitive than competitors. DTube facilitates easy video sharing with social media integration while maintaining control over distributed content through its decentralized network.

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YouTube alternatives are mainly Video Streaming Apps, but if you're looking for Video Sharing Tools or Video Hosting Services you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Online, iPhone, Mac, iPad, YouTube Clients, Android + YouTube Clients and Privacy focused. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to YouTube.
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  1. Kick icon
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    Kick.com is a live-streaming platform hosting all types of entertainment content and broadcasts. Kick aims to give the power and revenues back to the content creators, events and sports rightsholders, helping them with the right tools and income split to monetise and grow their...

    63 Kick alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  2. CloudTube icon
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    CloudTube is an alternative online front-end for YouTube. CloudTube provides interfaces to display that data, like a video player, search listings, channel views, and subscription management.

    45 CloudTube alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Namida icon
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    Feature-rich music and video player with YouTube support, built on Flutter. Offers folder-based library, powerful indexer, tagging, custom themes, waveform seekbar, offline and audio-only modes, advanced queue, history tracking, and gesture-based video controls.

    73 Namida alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  4. SnapTube icon
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    SnapTube offers quick, ad-free video and music downloading directly from YouTube in multiple resolutions. It features direct MP3 downloads with no extra encoding or registration required. Manage downloads easily and explore content through keyword search and integrated sharing.

    208 SnapTube alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Chrome OS
     
  5. Streamable icon
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    Streamable is a US-based video hosting service specializing in fast and simple video uploading and sharing. Serving millions of creators and video professionals worldwide, Streamable lets users upload, create clips, trim, merge, and share multiple videos with a simple link.

    48 Streamable alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Comments about Streamable as an Alternative to YouTube
    Guest
    Negative
    4

    It's completely different and is VERY unreliable, I would only use it for short clips that are temporarily needed

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Mano
    Positive
    0

    Useful to share short videos, or videos that you won't need to keep online for years. Free users will see a warning that their videos are pending deletion due after around 2 months of them being uploaded

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    • This alternative is disputed. Streamable is a legitimate YouTube alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • Streamable is Freemium and ProprietaryYouTube is also Freemium and Proprietary
    • Streamable is Lightweight and Privacy focusedYouTube is not according to our users
  6. IPFSTube icon
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    IPFSTube is a player and uploader for videos, stored on the distributed IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) network.

    22 IPFSTube alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • IPFS
    • JavaScript
    • Go (Programming Language)
     
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    Comments about IPFSTube as an Alternative to YouTube
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    13

    It's not a good alternative to YouTube because the idea is upload a video, get a link and share it. That's it. It doesn't have a interface that you can search for videos and etc. Basically, it doesn't have the "social network" that YouTube has.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Some users think IPFSTube is a great YouTube alternative, some don't.

    • IPFSTube is Free and Open SourceYouTube is Freemium and Proprietary
  7. litube icon
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    Lightweight Android app offering YouTube video access with support for background playback, sponsor ad and video ad blocking, direct downloads of videos, audio or thumbnails, playback progress memory, hiding Shorts, dislike counts, and minimal battery impact.

    51 litube alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  8. Picarto.TV icon
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    Picarto.TV is the world's leading video platform and community for artists. Our goal is to connect artists and their supporters by providing a place to let artists in their craft broadcast, watch, and chat, all from around the globe.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Playeur icon
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    Playeur is the perfect extension of your YouTube channel. When you get your audience to support you by subscribing to you on Playeur, you keep more of what you earn, and you build a lasting community.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android TV
     
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    Comments about Playeur as an Alternative to YouTube
    Exeref
    Positive
    0

    Utreon is good conceptually. If they make it less laggy and cluttered it would be one of the better YouTube alternatives.

    HelloWorldAlt
    Positive
    0

    no ads and user-defined filters.

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    • Almost everyone thinks Playeur is a great YouTube alternative.

    • Playeur is Freemium and ProprietaryYouTube is also Freemium and Proprietary
  10. PlasmaTube icon
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    PlasmaTube is YouTube video player based on libmpv and youtube-dl for Linux/Linux mobile. PlasmaTube allows you to watch YouTube videos on your phone or desktop using a elegant user interface integrated with...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • Plasma Mobile
     
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    Comments about PlasmaTube as an Alternative to YouTube
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Although the playback picture quality is poor, it works!

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • PlasmaTube is Free and Open SourceYouTube is Freemium and Proprietary
    • PlasmaTube is Privacy focused and LightweightYouTube is not according to our users
  11. Niconico icon
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    Niconico (or Nico Nico Douga) is a popular video sharing website in Japan managed by Niwango, a subsidiary of Dwango. Its nickname is "Niconico" or "Nico-do", where "nikoniko" is the Japanese ideophone for smiling.

    37 Niconico alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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