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Open source alternatives to YouTube

We track 7 open-source YouTube alternatives, of which 6 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 4 ship a Docker image. Invidious leads on health at 98/100 with 123 commits in the last 90 days; across all 7 projects you are choosing between AAL, AGPL-3.0, MIT.

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Alternatives
71k
Combined stars
1,145
Commits / 90 days
4
With Docker
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Showing 7 of 7 tools

All 7 YouTube alternatives, ranked by health

  • Top pick · highest health

    Invidious

    98 GOOD

    Alternative YouTube front-end.

    ★ 24k · ⟳ 3 days ago · v2.20260804.1 · AGPL-3.0

    DockerCrystal
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • MeTube

    97 GOOD

    Web GUI for youtube-dl, with playlist support. Allows downloading videos from dozens of websites.

    ★ 15k · ⟳ 4 days ago · 2026.08.28 · AGPL-3.0

    DockerPythonNodejs
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • ClipBucket

    89 GOOD

    Start your own video sharing website (YouTube/Netflix Clone) in a matter of minutes.

    ★ 180 · ⟳ 5 days ago · 5.5.3-#182 · AAL

    DockerPHP
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • PeerTube

    87 GOOD

    Decentralized video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser.

    ★ 15k · ⟳ today · v8.2.4 · AGPL-3.0

    Nodejs
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Owncast

    86 GOOD

    Decentralized single-user live video streaming and chat server for running your own live streams similar in style to the large mainstream options.

    ★ 12k · ⟳ today · v0.3.0 · MIT

    Go
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • MediaCMS

    75 GOOD

    Modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django/React, featuring a REST API.

    ★ 5.1k · ⟳ yesterday · v8.4.0 · AGPL-3.0

    DockerPython
    Website ↗ Source ↗

YouTube alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to YouTube?

Invidious scores highest at 98/100, with 123 commits in the last 90 days, 24k GitHub stars and its latest release (v2.20260804.1) published 1 months ago. PeerTube has the most raw commit activity at 504 commits in 90 days.

Which YouTube alternatives use a permissive licence?

2 of 7 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): ClipBucket (AAL), Owncast (MIT). 5 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.

Which YouTube alternatives run in Docker?

4 of 7 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Invidious, MeTube, ClipBucket, MediaCMS. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.