Materialious is usable on Web, Android (TV too) & Desktop.
It can be used with Invidious or using its own YouTube backend.
Has its own account system with end-to-end encryption for subscriptions.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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Help me understand what this does. It looks like it run on your own device and fetches YouTube videos you want to see, presenting them to you through its interface without ads and shit.
So I could throw it in my server and have my phone pull up its page and play content right?
Materialious can be deployed in a lot of ways.
It can be used purely as a Invidious frontend.
You can use it as a web server with its own YouTube engine and account system.
Or you can use it as a Desktop & Mobile app with or without Invidious.
Or you can even go into the advanced settings and choose when you want to use Invidious APIs or Materialious
Similar to Invideous, et al. You Tube front end.
I was gonna say, how is this different from invidious?
This can actually use Invidious as its backend if someone wants to.
Its basically just a more feature rich Invidious whata easier to deploy.
Yes, exactly.