Self-Hosted YouTube Alternatives

YouTube is not available as a self-hosted solution but there are plenty of alternatives for power users and business that want to host a solution on-premise. The best Self-Hosted alternative is PeerTube, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to YouTube and 13 are available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Self-Hosted alternatives to YouTube are MediaGoblin, YouPHPTube, Piped and IPFSTube.

YouTube alternatives are mainly Video Sharing Tools but may also be Video Streaming Apps or YouTube Clients. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of YouTube.

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PeerTube
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Cloudron
74 alternatives to 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...
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PeerTube Features
1. DecentralizedPeerTube is based on a decentralized infrastructure with no single entity controlling it.
2. Ad-freePeerTube doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
3. Support for ActivityPubPeerTube support ActivityPub, a open and decentralized social network protocol.
4. Privacy focusedPeerTube is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
5. Dark ModePeerTube supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
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Federated
GNU/linux-libre
Free Speech
Support for WebTorrent
Fediverse
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HTTPS Support
Federated Cloud
Support for SD videos
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Almost everyone thinks PeerTube is a great alternative to YouTube.
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swedneck
Peertube is federated, which means anyone with the know-how can host their own instance of peertube where they can upload videos to, and anyone on another peertube instance can find their server/account and view their videos. For an example of a federated service already in use, look no further than Email.
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Pietrosmus
Decentralized video-streaming, not exactly like youtube, as you have to find the content creators instances on your own, but definitely a good alternative.
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goodworks
Among the various open-source decentralized alternatives to YouTube, this one stands out for its exceptional sophistication. Framasoft's impressive track record further confirms its potential.
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Kale22
A lot of low quality content… I feel like GanJing World is a much better alternative, only platform I found that cuts out bad content like violence and erotic stuff
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abigailjordan
I think It doesn't have ads!
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MediaGoblin
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Video Sharing Tool
Photo Sharing App
Photo Manager
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Sandstorm.io
53 alternatives to MediaGoblin
MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.
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MediaGoblin Features
1. DecentralizedMediaGoblin is based on a decentralized infrastructure with no single entity controlling it.
Built-in 3D model viewer
GNU/linux-libre
MediaGoblin vs YouTube opinions
Most users think MediaGoblin is a great alternative to YouTube.
Guest
It is a free/libre software that respects your freedom and the freedom of your personal data.
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Guest
MediaGoblin is an open source project than can be hosted on any server. It is decentralized but a federation connects all servers between them. And they don't use your data like YouYube/Google.
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Guest
Poor in content, unused, not immediately clear, important structural difference that are not obvious.
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Guest
Clueless how it works and it would not upload my video when I tried the demo so there was no way to figure it out.
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Guest
I should just be able to logon and go you can't do that with this platform.
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YouPHPTube
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Chromecast
84 alternatives to YouPHPTube
It is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. It's written in PHP and with YouPHPTube you can create your own video sharing site and Stream Live videos for free.
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YouPHPTube Features
Streaming
Media Streaming
Video upload
Convert YouTube videos to Mp4
YouPHPTube vs YouTube opinions
Most users think YouPHPTube is a great alternative to YouTube.
danielneto1
Very clear layout and help
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Guest
YouPHPTube is primarily for downloading videos from a url.
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Piped
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Free • Open Source
YouTube Client
Online
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27 alternatives to Piped
Piped is an online frontend for viewing YouTube. NewPipe Extractor is used to retrieve information from YouTube. Piped doesn't connect your request to Google.
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Piped Features
1. Ad-freePiped doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
2. Privacy focusedPiped is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
3. Dark ModePiped supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
4. LightweightPiped consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Progressive Web App
Piped vs YouTube opinions
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RemovedUser
If you want to watch YouTube content but don't like ads and Google's invasive data collection, you should definitely try Piped. It's super fast (faster than Invidious in my experience) and the Preferences allow users to enable SponsorBlock, an open-source crowdsourced platform that skips sponsored segments automatically, so that you never have to hear "this video is sponsored by RandomVPN" ever again. It's highly customizable, very similar to NewPipe.
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Guest
It's much nicer than Invidious. Piped is not a full YouTube alternative like LBRY, but rather a frontend that allows you to watch YouTube and only connecting to googleapis.com (not googlevideo.com like Invidious). It also has the craziest ad blocker ever. When you watch a video and they say, now it's time for a word from our sponsor or something like that, it fast forwards to the end of that part. It's insane, I have no idea how they pull that off!
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IPFSTube
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Free • Open Source
Video Sharing Tool
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IPFS
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44 alternatives to IPFSTube
IPFSTube is a player and uploader for videos, stored on the distributed IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) network.
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IPFSTube Features
1. DecentralizedIPFSTube is based on a decentralized infrastructure with no single entity controlling it.
Peer-To-Peer
Video upload
Distributed
IPFSTube vs YouTube opinions
This alternative is disputed. IPFSTube is still a legitimate alternative to YouTube, but it might have issues that some users think are important.
Guest
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.
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CloudTube
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Free • Open Source
YouTube Client
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26 alternatives to CloudTube
An alternative front-end for YouTube.
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CloudTube Features
1. Privacy focusedCloudTube is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
ViewTube
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YouTube Client
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32 alternatives to ViewTube
ViewTube is an alternative YouTube frontend that lets you watch, search and discover YouTube videos without ads or tracking.
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ViewTube Features
1. Ad-freeViewTube doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
2. Privacy focusedViewTube is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
3. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in ViewTube without registration.
4. Dark ModeViewTube supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
Allows subscriptions
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Guest
It has beautiful design, integrated SponsorBlock and protects your privacy by proxying content.
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SaveAs.Video
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YouTube Downloader
Video Downloader
Video Sharing Tool
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53 alternatives to SaveAs.Video
A Free Tool to Download Social Media Videos and audio Online With Save As Video Downloader, you can download videos from social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram with just a few clicks.
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SaveAs.Video Features
1. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in SaveAs.Video without registration.
2. LightweightSaveAs.Video consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Convert YouTube videos to Mp3
Yotter
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15 alternatives to Yotter
Yotter allows you to follow and gather all the content from your favorite Twitter and YouTube accounts in a beautiful feed so you can stay up to date without compromising your privacy at all. Yotter is written with Python and Flask and uses Semantic-UI as its CSS framework.
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Youtube integration
Discontinued
This project is no longer maintained
CumulusClips
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30 alternatives to CumulusClips
Free Video Sharing CMS. Start your own video sharing website with CumulusClips video sharing script. It's free and easy to use. You can build a YouTube clone where users can upload videos, rate videos, comment on videos, and much more.
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CumulusClips Features
Rate
Video upload
Discontinued
Not updated since September 26, 2017

CumulusClips vs YouTube opinions
Akito
This one is not bad and not so bloated as most other alternatives. However, it seems to be not developed anymore. The latest release was 2017 and that is also the year the last commit was made in its Github repository. https://github.com/cumulusclips/cumulusclips
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