What is Grayjay?
Grayjay is a cutting-edge app that serves as a video player and source aggregator. It allows you to stream and organize videos from various sources, providing a unified platform for your entertainment needs.
It’s mostly used as a YouTube frontend^. However, it is now launching as a desktop app for Linux, Mac and Windows.
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Would have preferred android TV app
Much smaller target audience I believe. Also SmartTube exists.
Yeah but…what happens when dev get tired of doing updates and combating Google?
Suit yourself.
Honestly the mobile app doesn’t work for such long periods of time that I’ve all but given up and gone back to YouTube.
If anyone knows an app to replace YouTube that is actually reliable then let me know! I’m in the market.
…truth?
Run your own yt-dlp frontend. Punchflat… or one of the many other solutions out there. Dump your subs to a folder and let Jellyfin turn them into individual shows with episodes.
I shouldn’t have to do that!
Don’t tell me. Tell Google, or… pay them, I guess. Your call. I’ll be over here turning my lemons into lemonade. You do whatever you want with yours.
The other most used frontends are Newpipe(and it’s forks) aswell as Revanced.
What do you mean it doesnt work for longer periods of time? Been flawless for me ever since I started using it.
That zip file is just one command away from an appimage
It’s an alpha release, so expect it to be buggy. Overall this is a good thing. We need more frontends.
Why can’t they be a website than an app for Dekstop?
Also understood that they’re not open-source but are they privacy-respecting?
Edit: Went through their privacy policy and seems they’re privacy-focused. I will be trying their app now.
Personally I’ve been using FreeTube for accessing YouTube as they are FOSS. Only thing I wish they would have a feature to share like subs with Tubular and watch history somehow. It doesn’t have all the platforms Grayjay has but for just YouTube its pretty great
the app is source available, it places some restrictions on modifications of the source code, but the code is fully available
Yeah if you know who’s behind Futo (Louis Rossman) you will know he fights very hard for better privacy across the board among other things that are better for us consumers.
Edit: Futo being the company behind this app and other privacy respective apps.
I am working on an alternative
Spill the beans!
Cannot release yet because I need to “plugin out” the youtube part which was integrated directly into the flutter app in my earlier builds, will be open source
I really wish there was a truly open source version of GrayJay because GrayJay is actually Not OpenSource
Yikes. I’ll be sticking with NewPipe and other FOSS apps.
Hopefully there’s light mode
Does it have tabs? if not I can’t see myself caring.
It doesn’t look like it does. It has multiple stackable windows, though.
Is there a Flatpak?
Not yet. Had to manually download.
Grayjay mobile is awesome, very much looking forward to checking this out. Love how it puts all my YouTube, Patreon, Twitch and Peertube content in one place.
95℅ of the time my Patreon feeds fail to load. This isn’t your experience?
There’s an occasional error popup during playback, but the feeds and video still work here. I’m on Grayjay v268 w/ Patreon v17
My biggest issue is Peertube tbh, discovery is difficult, border line useless.
The peertube app recently launched and its pretty decent for a first release
That’s awesome. I love the grayjay mobile app. I need more non YouTube creators to follow though
Yes, finally! I’ve been using the mobile app, and it has been nothing but amazing.
