ViewTube

ViewTube is an alternative YouTube frontend.

It can recommend, play and search for videos. It saves your watch progress and you can subscribe to channels for them to appear in your subscription feed.

Try the dev version on dev.viewtube.io

Features

Watch videos without ads or tracking
Read comments
Search for videos
Subscribe to channels and see their latest uploads
Receive push notifications for subscribed channels
Responsive: mobile and desktop friendly

Why not just use invidio.us?

You can check the progress on replacing the invidious api here.

Invidious instances can easily get rate-limited by Google. With ViewTube, you can switch between instances. Your subscriptions, settings, etc. are stored on your ViewTube account.

Your selected instance is slow or doesn't work?
Just go to settings > instance and choose a different one!
Instances are fetched from the invidious wiki.

Screenshots

Homepage

Video

Channel

Host it yourself

A more comprehensive installation guide is available in the wiki

Docker

Example docker command

$ docker create \
  --name=viewtube
  -p 8066:8066
  -v /path/to/data:/data \
  -e VIEWTUBE_API_URL=http://your-ip-or-domain.com/api/
  --restart unless-stopped \
  mauriceo/viewtube:latest

Docker-compose

version: '3'

services:
  viewtube:
    container_name: viewtube
    restart: unless-stopped
    image: mauriceo/viewtube:latest
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - ./data:/data
    environment:
      - VIEWTUBE_API_URL=http://your-ip-or-domain.com/api/
    ports:
      - 8066:8066