Materialious
A Material Design front end for YouTube and Invidious on web, desktop, Android and Android TV.
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About Materialious
Materialious is an alternative interface for watching YouTube, built on Material Design and aimed at a clean, privacy-friendly experience. It connects to an Invidious instance, and when Invidious fails it can fall back to fetching the video locally.
It runs in the browser and is also available as desktop, Android and Android TV apps, and can be self-hosted. It suits people who already use Invidious or want YouTube without the official site and apps.
Strengths
- Clean Material Design interface
- Local video fallback when Invidious fails
- Available on web, desktop, Android and Android TV
Limitations
- Relies on Invidious instances, which can be unreliable
- Access can break when YouTube changes
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source.
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Developer
- The Materialious contributors
- Platforms
- Android, Web, Self-hosted
- How it runs
- Downloadable app, Web application, Self-hosted
- Account
- Not required
- Best suited for
- Watching YouTube through Invidious with a modern interface
- Categories
- Video editing, Privacy tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Materialious
Compare allSoftware that can replace Materialious for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Invidious
Self-hostable YouTube front end with subscriptions and no account.
Invidious is the self-hostable YouTube front end that Materialious builds on, offering subscriptions and per-channel RSS, though playback reliability varies between instances.
Piped
YouTube front end that proxies streams so Google never sees your address.
Piped is a web front end that can proxy streams so YouTube never sees your address, with SponsorBlock built in, but public instances are often rate limited.
FreeTube
Desktop YouTube client that keeps subscriptions and history locally.
FreeTube is a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux that keeps subscriptions locally with SponsorBlock, and has no Android or TV version.
LibreTube
Android YouTube front end that needs no Google Play Services.
LibreTube is an Android-only YouTube client built on Piped instances, with background playback and SponsorBlock but no web or TV versions.
Yattee
A privacy-oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS that works with Invidious and Piped.
Yattee is a native app for iOS, tvOS and macOS that works with Invidious or Piped, moving the experience to Apple platforms only.
PipePipe
An open-source Android app for watching YouTube, BiliBili and other video sites without a Google account.
PipePipe is an Android app that scrapes YouTube, BiliBili and other sites directly instead of relying on Invidious instances, with SponsorBlock built in.
Tubo
A self-hostable web front end that brings the NewPipe streaming experience to the browser.
Tubo is a self-hostable web front end with a NewPipe-style interface covering several streaming services, from a smaller project that is not open source.
Grayjay
An Android video app that gathers creators from YouTube and other platforms into one feed.
Grayjay is an Android app that combines creators from YouTube and other platforms into one feed using plugins, and is not open source.
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