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CLUSTER CLIENT-YOUTUBE-ADS · 12 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2016-02-27

Ad-free YouTube clients

This cluster comprises open-source or self-hosted YouTube clients that remove ads and support playback, downloads, subscriptions, and playlists across web, desktop, and TV interfaces. The dated entry history is sparse, with single entries in 2015-16, then again in 2022, 2024, 2025, and 2026, exhibiting a multi-year gap between 2016 and 2022. All three tracked products show zero stars, though LT_Vitube leads the activity signal.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

SEP 2015: 1JAN 2016: 1FEB 2016: 1FEB 2022: 1AUG 2022: 1FEB 2024: 1AUG 2025: 1JUL 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 2OCT 2026: 1
SEP 2015OCT 2026

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 · 2 hand-coded · 10 unlabelled

Operator · 2 hobby · 1 commercial · 9 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 12 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01LT_Vitube0★10 days—hobbyYouTube client that plays videos without ads through a self-hosted server, with web, desktop, and Android TV interfaces.
  2. 02Materialious0★29 daysliveopen sourceYouTube and Invidious client that lets users watch videos, manage playlists, and follow channels with privacy features.
  3. 03NewPipe0★1 moliveopen sourceMobile app that provides a lightweight YouTube viewing experience by parsing the website directly, without Google services or an account.
  4. 04PlayTube0★21 daysliveopen sourceAndroid app that provides an ad-free YouTube client with background play, picture-in-picture, subtitles, and high-quality downloads.
  5. 05PlayOnDlna0★19 daysliveopen sourceApp that streams YouTube videos without ads to DLNA players on the local network after receiving a shared link.
  6. 06Stream-lecture0★1 mo—hobbyWeb app that hosts a single lecture video from YouTube with anonymous visitor counting and no login required.
  7. 07Materialious0★unknownliveopen sourceVideo-watching frontend for YouTube and Invidious offering an ad-free, tracking-free experience with subscription import and sponsor-segment skipping.
  8. 08SkyTube0★4 moliveopen sourceOpen-source YouTube client for playing, downloading, and browsing videos without ads, featuring subscriptions and playlists.
  9. 09SkyTube Legacy0★4 moliveopen sourceAd-free YouTube client for legacy devices, supporting video playback, downloads, subscriptions, and channel management.
  10. 10Clipious0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceVideo streaming client that connects to Invidious servers for private YouTube viewing, with subscriptions, background playback, and sponsor-blocking.
  11. 11PiP - Picture in Picture Video0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedcommercialUtility app that plays videos from YouTube and other sources in picture-in-picture mode without ads.
  12. 12WebTube0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceLightweight YouTube frontend that plays videos without using the proprietary YouTube API or Google Play services.

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.