Alternative zu YouTube
Materialious is a modern material design frontend for YouTube & Invidious, focused on a clean, privacy-friendly YouTube experience. It supports local video fallback when Invidious fails and is available on Web, Desktop, Android, and Android TV.
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Modern Material design for YouTube and Invidious.

Table of Contents
- Features
- Docker deployment
- Legacy Docker deployment, Invidious only
- Installing as a app
- Translations
- Previews
- Have any questions?
- Special thanks to
- Contributing
- License
Features
- Accounts & Syncing
- Internal account system (optional).
- Subscriptions are end-to-end encrypted.
- History & watch progress syncing.
- Proof-of-work Captcha.
- Subscription importing/exporting, with automatic Invidious/Materialious import & export.
- Sync your watch progress between Invidious sessions.
- Internal account system (optional).
- Invidious & Subscriptions
- Invidious is optional.
- Enjoy Materialious without an Invidious instance via our YouTube backend.
- Local video fallback if Invidious fails loading videos.
- Invidious companion support.
- Integrates with Invidious subscriptions.
- Invidious is optional.
- Integrations
- SponsorBlock built-in.
- Return YouTube Dislike (RYD) built-in.
- DeArrow built-in.
- Player
- Chapters.
- Mini player (PIP).
- Playlists.
- Platform & Privacy
- Android TV support.
- Support for disabling certificate validation for homelab users.
- No ads.
- No tracking.
- Light/Dark themes.
- Custom colour themes.
- PWA support.
- YT path redirects.
Docker deployment
This version of Materialious is feature rich, has its own account system (optional) & is easier to setup.
Legacy Docker deployment, Invidious only.
This version of Materialious is still fully supported, but is purely just a Invidious frontend without any fancy bells and whistles, this version is harder to deploy...
Installing as a app
| Platform | Package/Installation Method |
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| Windows |
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| MacOS (x64 & arm64) |
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| Android |
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| Android TV | For Android TV use APKUpdater. |
| Flatpak |
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| AppImage |
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| Debian/Ubuntu |
Then run: |
| Fedora/OpenSuse |
For Fedora: For OpenSuse: |
| Linux (tarball) |
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Translations
Help translate Materialious via Weblate!
Previews
More screenshots
Mobile

Android TV Home

Android TV Player

Login

Player

Settings

Channel

Chapters

Playlists


Have any questions?
Special thanks to
- SecularSteve for creating Materialious' logo.
- Invidious.
- Clipious for inspiration & references to undocumented Invidious routes.
- Beer CSS (Especially the YouTube template what was used as the base for Materialious.)
- LuanRT for YouTube.js & SABR implementation.
- FreeTube for their subtitle fix.
- spotube for using their README layout for local installation.
- Every dependency in package.json.
Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Please read the guidelines below before getting started.
License
Materialious is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0).