# Invidio.us - free and open source alternative front-end to YouTube

**URL:** <https://forum.orgones.co.uk/t/invidio-us-free-and-open-source-alternative-front-end-to-youtube/4688>\
**Category:** Maintaining online privacy and security\
**Created:** [September 22, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.orgones.co.uk/t/invidio-us-free-and-open-source-alternative-front-end-to-youtube/4688 "2019-09-22T21:02:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Adam](https://forum.orgones.co.uk/user_avatar/forum.orgones.co.uk/adam/32/3_2.png) [@Adam](https://forum.orgones.co.uk/u/Adam)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.orgones.co.uk/t/invidio-us-free-and-open-source-alternative-front-end-to-youtube/4688/1 "2019-09-22T21:02:48Z")

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[https://invidio.us](https://invidio.us)

## Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

- Audio-only mode (and no need to keep window open on mobile)
- [Free software](https://github.com/omarroth/invidious) (AGPLv3 licensed)
- No ads
- No need to create a Google account to save subscriptions
- Lightweight (homepage is ~4 KB compressed)
- Tools for managing subscriptions:
  - Only show unseen videos
  - Only show latest (or latest unseen) video from each channel
  - Delivers notifications from all subscribed channels
  - Automatically redirect homepage to feed
  - Import subscriptions from YouTube

- Dark mode
- Embed support
- Set default player options (speed, quality, autoplay, loop)
- Does not require JS to play videos
- Support for Reddit comments in place of YT comments
- Import/Export subscriptions, watch history, preferences
- Does not use any of the official YouTube APIs
- Developer [API](https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/wiki/API)