FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Available for Windows (10 and later), Mac (macOS 11 and later) & Linux thanks to Electron.

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FreeTube uses a built in extractor to grab and serve data / videos. The Invidious API can also optionally be used. FreeTube does not use any official APIs to obtain data. While YouTube can still see your video requests, it can no longer track you using cookies or JavaScript. Your subscriptions and history are stored locally on your computer and never sent out.

• Watch videos without ads
• Use YouTube without Google tracking you using cookies and JavaScript
• Two extractor APIs to choose from (Built in or Invidious)
• Subscribe to channels without an account
• Connect to an externally setup proxy such as Tor
• View and search your local subscriptions, history, and saved videos
• Organize your subscriptions into "Profiles" to create a more focused feed
• Export & import subscriptions
• Youtube Trending
• Youtube Chapters
• Most popular videos page based on the set Invidious instance
• SponsorBlock
• Open videos from your browser directly into FreeTube (with extension)
• Watch videos using an external player
• Full Theme support
• Make a screenshot of a video
• Multiple windows
• Mini Player (Picture-in-Picture)
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Option to show only family friendly content
• Show/hide functionality or elements within the app using the distraction free settings
• View channel community posts

The following extensions open YouTube links directly in FreeTube:

• LibRedirect
• RedirectTube

LibRedirect automatically redirect YouTube links to FreeTube.

RedirectTube, doesn’t automatically open YouTube links in FreeTube. Instead, it adds buttons to the toolbar and context menu, which you can click to open videos in FreeTube manually.

• Download LibRedirect from Mozilla Add-ons (for Firefox based-browsers) or developer's website (for Chrome and Chromium-based browsers).

• Download RedirectTube from Mozilla Add-ons (for Firefox based-browsers).

• GitHub Releases

• FreeTube Website

• Flatpak on Flathub: Download and Source Code

Builds are automatically created from changes to our development branch via GitHub Actions.

The first build with a green check mark is the latest build.

• Arch User Repository (AUR): Download

• Chocolatey: Download

• FreeTubeAndroid (FreeTube port for Android and PWA): Download and Source Code

• Homebrew Formulae (Mac only): Download

• makedeb Package Repository (MPR): Download

• Nix Packages: Download

• PortableApps (Windows Only): Download and Source Code

• Scoop (Windows Only): Usage

• Snap: Download and Source Code

• WAPT: Download

• Windows Package Manager (winget): Usage

Thank you very much to the People and Projects that make FreeTube possible!

If you like to get your hands dirty and want to contribute, we would love to have your help. Send a pull request and someone will review your code.

We are actively looking for translations! We use Weblate to make it easy for translators to get involved. Click on the badge above to learn how to get involved.

For the Linux Flatpak, the desktop entry comment string can be translated at our Flatpak repository.

If you ever have any questions, feel free to ask it on our Discussions page. Alternatively, you can email us at [email protected] or you can join our Matrix Community.

If you enjoy using FreeTube, you're welcome to leave a donation using the following method.

• Bitcoin Address: 1Lih7Ho5gnxb1CwPD4o59ss78pwo2T91eS

While your donations are much appreciated, only donate if you really want to. Donations are used for keeping the website up and running and eventual code signing costs.

FreeTube is Free Software: You can use, study share and improve it at your will. Specifically you can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.