On your own server, TypeType runs a private video platform for YouTube, NicoNico, and BiliBili, keeping subscriptions, history, and playlists out of someone else's recommendation engine. Pick a service and search it. Browse channels, Shorts, podcasts, and a home feed. Speed and quality control. Cinema mode. Native picture-in-picture. Subtitles, alternate audio tracks, and frame-by-frame stepping. SponsorBlock segments get skipped, or just marked, by category. Subscriptions, playlists, watch later, favorites, and resume positions fill the library. Import a Google Takeout export or a PipePipe backup and a new instance never starts empty. Download video or audio to local or S3-compatible storage and collect it in the browser when it is ready. Sign in locally or through OIDC. An admin console runs the instance. Block a channel and it disappears from feeds, search, and related videos. Hide Shorts. Hide personalized recommendations. Hide the suggestions column. A native Android client for phones and tablets syncs with the same instance. An optional experimental recommender can build a personalized home feed, and each user chooses whether to turn it on. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Reclip is a self-hosted web downloader that turns links from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and more than a thousand other video sites into MP4 or MP3 files saved on your own server. Paste one link or a whole batch of URLs, and Reclip fetches each video's title, thumbnail, duration, and uploader before you commit to anything. A quality picker lists every available resolution, so a lecture can be grabbed at 360p for a phone while a concert film comes down at full height with the best audio stream merged in. MP3 mode strips the picture away entirely, which makes it painless to archive podcasts, DJ sets, and spoken-word clips as plain audio files. Playlists expand into their individual videos automatically, repeated URLs are deduplicated before any bandwidth is spent, and a Download All button works through the whole queue without babysitting. Each job runs in a background thread with live status in the interface, so the page stays responsive while ffmpeg finishes merging streams behind the scenes. Everything lives behind one clean page with no accounts, no uploads to third-party converters, and no expiring download links, and finished files land in a downloads folder you control. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Paste any YouTube Music album, playlist, or track link into Yubal and get back a clean, fully tagged music library instead of a pile of video files. Tracks land in Artist and Year-Album folders with numbered filenames, cover art, and synced .lrc lyrics files, while playlists become M3U files that reference the album copies so a song appearing in ten playlists is stored exactly once. Subscribe to playlists and a cron-driven scheduler pulls new tracks into your library automatically on the schedule you set. The web interface shows real-time progress and a job queue that works on mobile, with automatic retries on failed downloads and graceful cancellation when you change your mind. Lyrics come from lrclib.net with a YouTube Music fallback, ReplayGain tags keep playback volume consistent across tracks and whole albums, and audio arrives as opus, mp3, or m4a, downloaded directly when possible and transcoded otherwise. Finished libraries drop straight into Navidrome, Jellyfin, or Gonic, and a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome queues downloads or subscriptions from the YouTube page you are already browsing. Optional cookie support unlocks private playlists, Liked Music, and age-restricted content, and a companion CLI downloads and inspects metadata from the terminal. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Watch YouTube without the ads, accounts, or tracking, from a server you own: TubeHaus is a private YouTube client that keeps the familiar layout, URLs, and keyboard shortcuts. Your subscriptions, watch history, resume positions, Watch Later, and playlists live as files on the server, so every device in the house shares one library and picks up a video where another screen left it. Live streams play with segments fetched ahead of the player, and captions are transcribed on the fly when a stream has none. Chapters, storyboard previews, a mini player, and theater mode make long videos easy to navigate, while sponsors are skipped automatically and dislike counts come back to the page. Save videos offline in 1080p or 4K for trips, send playback to a TV from your phone without a separate casting dongle, and drive the television interface entirely from a remote. Imports arrive from a Google Takeout export, Invidious, NewPipe, or FreeTube, so years of subscriptions move over in minutes instead of being rebuilt by hand. A calm mode hides recommendations and Shorts when you only want to search and watch deliberately. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Pinchflat NGX is a self-hosted media manager that subscribes to YouTube channels and playlists, then downloads new videos into your own library automatically. Sources can be channels, playlists, or single videos, added by pasting a URL, searching in Browse, or importing a Google Takeout subscription list. Media profiles set quality, output templates, and retention, and each source can route its files to its own folder. The Sources page switches between a poster grid and a sortable table, with start, pause, and stop controls on every row. Channel Discovery suggests related channels with a score and evidence, and nothing is added until you accept it. A diagnostics page shows queue health, database size, and integrity checks, and notifications can use Discord embed formatting. Finished downloads trigger library refreshes on Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby, and an OPML feed serves podcast clients. OIDC single sign-on protects the web interface through providers like Authentik and Authelia. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Follow the channels you actually chose, and let their newest uploads land on your own disk instead of in an algorithmic feed. Yarrtube tracks public YouTube playlists and whole channels, checks them on a schedule, and downloads fresh videos automatically the moment they appear. The built-in web player lets you watch the collected library from a desktop or a phone browser without ads interrupting. Downloads are organized into media-server friendly folders, so the same collection shows up inside Plex, Jellyfin, or Kodi next to your films and shows. For Plex homes, an optional scan trigger refreshes the library right after a download finishes, so new episodes surface without manual rescans. You control download quality per source and can cap how many videos each channel keeps, which protects limited disk space from runaway back catalogs. Grouping sources into categories and smart playlists keeps a growing archive browsable instead of turning into one long dump. Everything runs from one Docker container with two persistent mounts, one for its small database and one for the video files. A free YouTube Data API v3 key powers the new-upload checks, so setup takes minutes. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

BrainRotGuard puts a parent between YouTube's recommendation engine and your kid: children search freely, but nothing plays until you tap Approve in Telegram. The request that lands on your phone carries the thumbnail, title, channel, and duration, and one tap either starts the video on the child's tablet instantly or denies it for good. Channels you trust can be allowlisted as educational or entertainment so their new uploads arrive pre-approved, while blocked channels and title word filters stop repeat offenders automatically. Each child gets a profile with its own PIN, watch history, and time budgets, and educational and entertainment content can draw from separate daily limits. Scheduled windows keep the app closed during school hours or after bedtime, with different rules per weekday and bonus minutes grantable for today only. Approved videos stay in a library the child can rewatch without asking again, a dedicated Shorts row can be shown or switched off entirely, and a search-off mode limits younger kids to channels and videos you already approved. You see all of it from the parent side: pending queues, search history, and an activity log of what was watched and for how long. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.