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FreeTube vs Invidious: catalog facts
FreeTube	Invidious
Free Free and open source under the AGPL.	Free Free and open source under the AGPL.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Web, Self-hosted
Subscriptions and history stay on your machine, with no account Ad-free playback with SponsorBlock built in	Subscriptions and per-channel RSS without a Google account Can be self-hosted so nothing depends on someone else's instance
Breaks periodically when YouTube changes its internals Desktop only, and live streams and some features are limited	Public instances are frequently rate limited or blocked by YouTube Playback reliability varies between instances
Downloadable app	Self-hosted, Web application
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License: AGPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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