CLUSTER CHANNELS-WEB-YOUTUBE · 29 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-30
YouTube channel directories
These web apps help users discover and follow YouTube channels by curating them into browsable directories, searching channels, and viewing their videos or live streams. Dated entries before the index show a thin early history (2015, 2023, 2025) followed by a denser cluster of entries in early 2026. Traction is led by TunarrTube with 12 stars, while the other dated members show no activity signal.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 4 ai-built · 3 hand-coded · 13 unlabelled
Operator · 10 hobby · 1 indie · 3 open source · 6 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01tabelawt0★1 mo—indieWeb app that aggregates YouTube videos and creates personalized feeds based on friends' watching habits and one's own history.
- 02react-native-youtube0★1 day—hobbyMobile app that lets users follow YouTube channels and watch videos ad-free with a mini-player, history, and progress tracking.
- 03youtube-live-peek0★11 daysliveai-builtWeb app that lets users search YouTube channels and view their currently live streams.
- 04youtube-premium-free0★24 days—hand-codedhobbyWeb app that searches and plays YouTube videos with an embedded player and optional API key.
- 05YouTube-Feed0★29 days—Web app that displays YouTube channel feeds as customizable embeddable grids and generates copy-paste embed code for websites.
- 06_alice0★1 molivehobbyWeb app that presents a themed map of curated YouTube video paths for intentional exploration and discovery.
- 07Materialious0★25 daysliveopen sourceYouTube and Invidious client that lets users watch videos, manage playlists, and follow channels with privacy features.
- 08SmartTubeEx0★9 days—hand-codedhobbyAndroid TV app that plays YouTube videos and filters videos and channels by keywords in titles before they appear in feeds.
- 09youtube-subscriptions-dashboard0★14 days—hobbyLocal web app that organizes video subscriptions into a chronological feed, channel groups, and a saved watch queue with playback progress.
- 10youtube-library0★1 moliveWeb app that allows users to store and organize YouTube videos in a personal library.
- 11SmartTube F-Droid0★17 daysliveopen sourceAndroid TV media app that streams YouTube content with personalized rules to filter and organize videos.
- 12Youtube-codeParser0★1 mo—hobbyWeb app that scans YouTube videos and finds promo codes and discounts in sponsored segments.
- 13favTube0★28 daysliveai-builtWeb app that lets users publish ranked lists of favorite YouTube videos, browse others' profiles, follow, and give feedback.
- 14innovatube0★1 mo—hobbyFull-stack web app that lets users register, log in, search and play YouTube videos, and save personal favorites.
- 15yt-auto0★1 mo—Web app for scheduling and automatically uploading videos to multiple YouTube channels with multi-user accounts and admin approval.
- 16funbx0★3 molivehand-codedEntertainment hub that aggregates YouTube videos and content for users to explore.
- 17mariotube0★2 molivehobbyVideo streaming web app for browsing, searching, and watching YouTube content with custom playlists, watch history, subscriptions, and favorites.
- 18video-hub-app-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop app for browsing and searching local videos with preview, like a personal YouTube.
- 19vibewire1★7 mostale—ai-builthobbyDesktop application that tracks favorite YouTube channels and sends notifications when they upload new videos.
- 20youtube-ai-crawler0★7 mostale—ai-builthobbyWeb platform where members register YouTube channels and an API key to receive automatic Korean-language summaries of newly scanned video episodes.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.