Piped is a free ads-free YouTube Frontend
Piped is a free and open-source alternative frontend for YouTube which is efficient by design.
It is designed to offer a privacy-focused and lightweight experience. It allows users to watch YouTube videos without being tracked, avoiding ads and unnecessary data collection. Piped provides a clean and minimalist interface, offering a more streamlined and distraction-free viewing experience.
The project emphasizes user privacy and performance, making it an ideal choice for those who want to enjoy YouTube content while minimizing their digital footprint.
Features
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Lightweight on server and client
- Infinite Scrolling
- Light/Dark themes
- Login
- Feeds
- Playlists
- Integration with SponsorBlock
- Integration with LBRY for streaming
- Integration with Return YouTube Dislike via RYD-Proxy
- 4K support
- No connections to Google's servers
- Playing just audio
- PWA support
- Locally saved Preferences
- Available in many languages, thanks to our translators
- Embedded video support
- No age restriction
- Bypasses Geo restrictions if possible through a federated network
Tech Features
- Multi-region load-balancing
- Performant by design, designed to handle 1000s of users concurrently
- Does not use official YouTube APIs
- Uses NewPipeExtractor to extract information
- Public JSON API
- Federated protocol on Matrix to let instances collaborate with each other
Made with Piped
Mobile/desktop apps
- LibreTube - Alternative frontend for YouTube for Android.
- YTDLnis - Video and audio downloader for Android that uses Piped to update formats.
- Yattee - Alternative frontend for YouTube for MacOS / iOS.
- PlasmaTube - Alternative frontend for YouTube for Linux.
- PsTube - Watch and download videos without ads on Android, Linux, Windows, iOS, and Mac OSX.
- Harmony Music - YouTube Music alternative for Android, built with Flutter that supports piped linking for playlists.
- VibeYou - Privacy focused music player for Android supporting playback via Piped.
Web apps
- Piped-Material - Fork of Piped, focusing on better performance and a more usable design.
- Hyperpipe - Alternative privacy respecting front-end for YouTube Music.
- ytify - Complementary audio streaming frontend for YouTube & YouTube Music.
- Musicale - Alternative frontend for YouTube Music with style.
- conduit - Alternative frontend for YouTube, with a modern player and watch together capabilities.
- DeskVideo - Desktop styled, customizable alternative frontend for YouTube.
- ReacTube - Privacy friendly & distraction free YouTube frontend.
Other
- vidyodl - Simple API to download videos from YouTube, using Piped.
- Piped Addon for Kodi - Kodi plugin for Piped.
License
AGPL-3.0
Resources & Downloads
GitHub - TeamPiped/Piped: An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design. - TeamPiped/Piped
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