YouTube is Google's video platform, where discovery, monetisation and uploads follow its policies and ad model. Federated video hosts and privacy front-ends let you publish and watch videos without ads or tracking, on infrastructure you or your community run.
6 open-source alternatives to YouTube you can host yourself, ranked by GitHub stars and updated daily.
| # | App | Category | Stars | Language | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
iv-org/invidious
|
Media Servers & Video Streaming | 25,924 | Crystal | 1d |
| 2 |
Chocobozzz/PeerTube
|
Media Servers & Video Streaming | 15,398 | TypeScript | 1d |
| 3 |
owncast/owncast
|
Media Servers & Video Streaming | 11,654 | Go | today |
| 4 |
TeamPiped/Piped
|
Privacy Frontends | 10,324 | Vue | today |
| 5 |
mediacms-io/mediacms
|
Media Servers & Video Streaming | 5,188 | Python | 16d |
| 6 |
ViewTube/viewtube
|
Privacy Frontends | 1,479 | TypeScript | today |