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 14 are available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Self-Hosted alternatives to YouTube are Invidious, MediaGoblin, Piped and YouPHPTube.

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YouTube alternatives are mainly Video Streaming Apps, but if you're looking for Video Sharing Tools or YouTube Clients you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Android + YouTube Clients. 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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A video-sharing platform allowing users to upload, view, and share videos, including clips, music videos, and educational content.

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  1. PeerTube icon
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    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.

    71 PeerTube alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
    • F-Droid
    • Cloudron

    Properties

    1.  Free Speech
    2.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  Live Streaming
    2.  Decentralized
    3.  Video Hosting
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  Peer-To-Peer
    6.  Share Videos
    7.  Federated
    8. ActivityPub icon  Support for ActivityPub
    9.  GNU/linux-libre
    10.  Dark Mode
    11.  Support for HD videos
    12.  Support for WebTorrent

    PeerTube VS YouTube

     
    Comments about PeerTube as an Alternative to YouTube
    Comment summary: PeerTube is appreciated as an open-source, decentralized alternative to YouTube, offering privacy control and ad-free viewing. Positive comments highlight its federated nature, allowing individual hosting and linking with other instances. Users appreciate its potential for content creators and as a self-hostable video-sharing option. However, criticisms include limited content, performance issues, and a more complicated user experience compared to YouTube.
    Top Positive Comment
    Douze
    May 14, 2022
    9

    PeerTube is the open-source technology that links together independent instances on which people freely host and post videos. Find an instance that suits you or create your own, and join the federated PeerTube community !

    Top Negative Comment
    maurosoft391
    Jul 16, 2024
    -1

    it's not a good alternative. depsite it's open source and ad-free, there are way to less videos compare to youtube. some searches came out with zero match or no videos at all.

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    Festo
    Positive Jan 2, 2025
    0

    Ad-free, decentralized alternative to share videos.

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    • Almost everyone thinks PeerTube is a great YouTube alternative.

    • PeerTube is the most popular Web-based, Android, iPhone & Self-Hosted alternative to YouTube.

    • PeerTube is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to YouTube.

    • PeerTube is Free and Open SourceYouTube is Freemium and Proprietary
    • PeerTube is Decentralized and Privacy focusedYouTube is not according to our users
  2. Invidious icon
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    Open-source YouTube alternative offers ad-free browsing with no registration or JS needed. Features video download, audio mode, subscription tools, and multi-language support. Export/import data, manage playlists without Google account, and access embedded support.

    55 Invidious alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • CA flagCanada

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Web-Based
    3.  No registration required
    4.  Dark Mode
    5.  YouTube Downloader
    6.  Allows subscriptions
    7.  Work without JavaScript
    8.  Tor
    9.  MP3 Downloader
    10.  Picture in Picture
    11.  No Tracking
    12.  Personalized Recommendations

    Invidious VS YouTube

     
    Comments about Invidious as an Alternative to YouTube
    Comment summary: Invidious is highlighted as a privacy-focused, ad-free frontend to YouTube, praised for its lack of ads, trackers, and need for JavaScript. Users value its ability to let them download videos and avoid traditional YouTube's data collection. While it serves well as an alternative for viewers wanting a lighter and private experience, it doesn't offer features beneficial for content creators.
    Top Positive Comment
    TerrifiedTyphlosion
    Feb 2, 2019
    10

    As the description states, it is merely a frontend for YouTube. However, it comes with a lighter interface and blocks YouTube trackers and ads.

    Top Negative Comment
    Alexandre ZANNI
    Apr 13, 2023
    4

    Invidious is not a video platform but a Youtube frontend.

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    OnlyOpenSource
    Negative Jun 2, 2024
    0

    Invidious is a YouTube privacy frontend not a video hosting site like YouTube.

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    • Most users think Invidious is a great YouTube alternative.

    • Invidious is Free and Open SourceYouTube is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Invidious is Privacy focused and LightweightYouTube is not according to our users
  3. MediaGoblin icon
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    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.

    60 MediaGoblin alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Sandstorm

    MediaGoblin Features

    1.  Decentralized
    2.  Built-in 3D model viewer
    3.  GNU/linux-libre
    4.  Audio Sharing

    MediaGoblin VS YouTube

     
    Comments about MediaGoblin as an Alternative to YouTube
    Top Positive Comment
    Guest
    Oct 8, 2017
    12

    It is a free/libre software that respects your freedom and the freedom of your personal data.

    Top Negative Comment
    Guest
    Jun 29, 2017
    -1

    Poor in content, unused, not immediately clear, important structural difference that are not obvious.

    Most Recent Comment
    Guest
    Negative Dec 14, 2017
    -10

    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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    • Most users think MediaGoblin is a great YouTube alternative.

    • MediaGoblin is Free and Open SourceYouTube is Freemium and Proprietary
    • MediaGoblin is DecentralizedYouTube is not according to our users
  4. Piped icon
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    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.

    61 Piped alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Progressive Web App
    3.  Dark Mode
    4.  No registration required
    5.  No Tracking
    6.  Picture in Picture
    7.  Support for 4K
    8.  Cloud Sync

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    Comments about Piped as an Alternative to YouTube
    Guest
    Positive Mar 9, 2021
    1

    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!

    RemovedUser
    Positive Dec 14, 2021
    0

    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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    • Almost everyone thinks Piped is a great YouTube alternative.

    • Piped is Free and Open SourceYouTube is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Piped is Privacy focused and LightweightYouTube is not according to our users
  5. YouPHPTube icon
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    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.

    93 YouPHPTube alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • BR flagBrazil

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
    • Chromecast

    YouPHPTube Features

    1.  Streaming
    2.  Media Streaming
    3.  Video upload
    4.  Convert YouTube videos to Mp4

    YouPHPTube VS YouTube

     
    Comments about YouPHPTube as an Alternative to YouTube
    danielneto1
    Positive Apr 14, 2017
    0

    Very clear layout and help

    Guest
    Negative May 22, 2019
    -8

    YouPHPTube is primarily for downloading videos from a url.

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    • Most users think YouPHPTube is a great YouTube alternative.

    • YouPHPTube is Free and Open SourceYouTube is Freemium and Proprietary
  6. 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.

    44 CloudTube alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Dark Mode

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  7. IPFSTube icon
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    IPFSTube is a player and uploader for videos, stored on the distributed IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) network.

    47 IPFSTube alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • IPFS
    • JavaScript
    • Go (Programming Language)
    Discontinued

    The last update is from January 2019.

    IPFSTube Features

    1.  Decentralized
    2.  Peer-To-Peer
    3.  Video upload
    4.  Distributed

    IPFSTube VS YouTube

     
    Comments about IPFSTube as an Alternative to YouTube
    Guest
    Negative Jan 13, 2019
    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.

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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
    • IPFSTube is DecentralizedYouTube is not according to our users
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