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YouTube Music is a popular streaming service offering access to millions of songs, playlists, and music videos. While it provides a vast library and personalized recommendations, using the default YouTube Music app has some downsides, including intrusive ads, limited offline access, and restricted background playback. Free YouTube Music clients for
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Yattee is an open-source video player and downloader designed to offer an ad-free YouTube experience. It is a highly customizable app that supports both iOS and macOS platforms. Yattee focuses on privacy and user control, allowing users to download videos for offline viewing, block ads, and customize playback settings extensively.
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Invidious offers a complete API re-write for end-users and developers to browser, use, view, write apps and play YouTube videos in complete privacy mode, without any ads or tracking scripts. Features * Lightweight * No ads * No tracking * No JavaScript required * Light/Dark themes * Customizable homepage * Accounts * Subscriptions independent from Google * Notifications
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FreeTube is a YouTube client for Windows (10 and later), Mac (macOS 10.15 and later), and Linux built around using YouTube more privately. You can enjoy your favorite content and creators without your habits being tracked. All of your user data is stored locally and never sent or published
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Kiku is a free and open-source app for playing music from youtube on desktop. The application supports using local api, invidious and piped as source. Features * Select from source you like (Youtube, invidious, piped) * Automatical fallback to another source when one source failed * Translation available * No Ads * No Tracking scripts
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Beatbump is a fully-featured music listening experience, while helping to ease your privacy concerns associated with other platforms. Features * Automix for continued listening * No ads * Background play on mobile devices* * Search for artists, playlists, songs, and albums * Note that all playback is audio only (for now) * Local playlist management * Stored
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In today’s digital age, YouTube has become an indispensable resource for entertainment, education, and information. However, the official YouTube app and website can sometimes be limiting due to ads, lack of certain features, and privacy concerns. This is where alternative YouTube clients, frontends, and video downloader programs come into
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MacYTDL is a utility which downloads videos using the youtube-dl and YT-DLP video downloader scripts. youtube-dl and YT-DLP are able to download videos from a great many web sites. MacYTDL runs on any Apple Mac with macOS 10.10 or later. Features * Download individual videos and playlists. * Download multiple videos
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YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader) Features * Ad Blocker: Block all ads and tracking out of the box * Album Actions: Adds Undislike, Dislike, Like, and Unlike buttons to apply this to all songs in a playlist or album * Album Color Theme: Applies a
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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
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AYC is a highly responsive, no nonsense, easy to use, fast video downloader from the text based era. Features * Download from Youtube, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, Dailymotion, Vimeo and 100s of other websites that yt-dlp supports. * Automatically saves video chapters, thumbnails and subtitles (User configurable). * Downloads playlists, channels, keyword
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Did you switch to Kick because you wanted to grow but are still struggling to find real people to hang out with you during your streams? In this article we're going to go over a 8-step system that you could apply to your streams. So you can start
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MenuTube is a free macOS app that enables you to play and browse YouTube videos, podcasts, audiobooks, interviews directly from your macOS menubar. Features * Browse mobile YouTube version * Watch or listen to bazillion hours of content * Control media playback using keys on your keyboard! * Intuitive and simple UI * Native dark
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A YouTube desktop client is a software application that allows users to access and interact with YouTube content directly from their desktop, without needing to open a web browser. These clients often provide a more streamlined and smooth customizable user experience. YouTube desktop clients also allow users to avoid tracking
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Podsync is a robust and free service that transforms any YouTube / Vimeo channels, playlists or user videos into a podcast format. Leveraging the superior functionality of podcast applications, such as automatic download of new episodes, last played position memory, sync between devices, and offline listening, Podsync enhances your content delivery