A curated list of awesome alternative, privacy-friendly frontends. Note that this list also contains frontends that are not focused on privacy.

If anything is missing, feel free to open a pull request!

• DeepL
• Facebook
• Google
• Google Translate
• Imgur
• Instagram
• Mastodon
• Medium
• Odysee
• Reddit
• Reuters
• Spotify
• StackOverflow
• Telegram
• TikTok
• Twitter
• Wikipedia
• Youtube
• Youtube Music

Unofficial Android App for DeepL Translator

An extensive and functional third party app for Facebook

4get is a proxy search engine that doesn't suck

A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine

A privacy respecting free as in freedom meta search engine

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

Alternative front-end for Google Translate

Web Interface for SimplyTranslate built with python and quart https://simplytranslate.org

A simple and lightweight translator that allows you to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex Bing, LibreTranslate and Lingva.

Online dictionary - Translate content directly in your apps

InstaLate supports multiple translation providers such as SimplyTranslate, DeepL, Dict.cc, Linguee and many more. See here for a list of all supported providers

An alternative front-end to GoogleTranslate

Self-hosted frontend for imgur. Rewritten in Go. https://i.bcow.xyz

Self-hosted frontend for imgur

Self-hosted frontend for imgur

Private front-end for Imgur

Private front-end for Imgur

Instagram is known to aggresively block alternative frontends. Please help the community by hosting your own service

An alternative front-end for Instagram.

Bibliogram has been discontinued. Use at your own risk.

Alternative web client for Mastodon

An Alternative Medium Frontend

An alternative frontend for LBRY/Odysee.

Private front-end for Reddit

Libreddit has been discontinued. Use Redlib instead.

alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy https://teddit.net

A web client for Reddit with authenticated logins and a variety of browsing options

Stealth is an account-free, privacy-oriented, and feature-rich Reddit client.

A Reddit client for Android

Here lives the greatest open-source Reddit app

Reuters Redirect and Proxy

Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI

A Spotify Premium Account is required

Dead-simple queue-oriented client for Spotify

Native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop

A Spotify Premium Account is required

View StackOverflow in privacy and without the clutter.

Unofficial, FOSS-friendly fork of the original Telegram client for Android

Open source alternative frontend for TikTok made using PHP

Alternative Twitter front-end

A privacy-friendly Twitter frontend for mobile devices

Lightweight Twitter app for Android

A free open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy

Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube.

An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

Lightweight YouTube client for Linux

Alternative YouTube frontend for iOS (iPhone, iPad), macOS and tvOS (Apple TV) built with Invidious and Piped

A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

Copylefted libre / open source YouTube player for Android

An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android. [WIP]

uYou+ is a modified version of uYou (made by @MiRO92) with additional features and mainly made for non jailbroken users!

Alternative YouTube frontend for iOS (iPhone, iPad), macOS and tvOS (Apple TV) built with Invidious and Piped

Ad free app for watching tube videos on Android TV boxes

Alternative YouTube frontend for iOS (iPhone, iPad), macOS and tvOS (Apple TV) built with Invidious and Piped

Alternative YouTube Music frontend built with Svelte/SvelteKit 🎧

YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader)

A Music Player App made with Flutter

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