Today, thousands of former fans of the once-free YouTube video platform are looking for a replacement. According to experts, sites that can offer the user at least half of the capabilities similar to YouTube’s can claim YouTube’s alternative status. An alternative, as it turned out, is.
On the Web, to the delight of experienced and novice developers of video content, there are many free services that are in no way inferior to YouTube. With their help, the creator of the video can correct an individual frame, reconfigure the color gamut, adjust the brightness and saturation of colors, as well as change the resolution of images.
Owners of personal pages on YouTube, among other things, could turn off unnecessary elements, as well as reduce advertising plots. They can find the same options in free analogues of the popular video platform.
Alternative YouTube for Android. Advantages and disadvantages
To register on SkyTube, the user does not need to log in to a Google account. SkyTube works as a standalone platform, provides for viewing videos and the ability to comment.
You can read user reviews in both full-screen and normal mode. There is the opportunity to view lists of videos recognized as the best in the last day. An exclusive feature of SkyTube is the ability to keep track of positive and negative assessments of content and quality.
Already familiar video apps as an alternative to YouTube
More than two million users today use the free Magic Actions extension. If you compare it with other video applications, then after YouTube Options the opportunities offered by Magic Actions make the extension one of the most popular and functional additions to the well-known video platform.
AutoHD optical device allows the user to adjust the quality of video content and adjust the volume with one movement of the mouse wheel. If desired, the application can be switched to cinema mode, and if necessary, take screenshots of individual frames in PNG, JPEG and WEBP format.
AutoHD also provides the ability to delete the history of viewed videos.
Far from the worst alternative to YouTube is the Enhancer app. Today it is used by more than one hundred thousand users. This application has long been appreciated by owners of low-power machines - the service is unpretentious with respect to system requirements and does not affect the performance of the processor. Video content is played in any user-friendly format.
The ImprovedTube app brought together about two hundred thousand people. ImprovedTube gives you the opportunity to enjoy all the well-known "charms" of YouTube, as well as several new products.
This YouTube alternative has beneficial benefits. One of them is maintaining privacy of views. By the way, if desired, an ImprovedTube user can abandon some of the features of YouTube. Such, for example, as creating blocks for the headline and comments and adding a summary of the video.
Service that does not require installation
Clipchamp is the first and only service in the world that allows you to convert video for free directly in your browser. Downloading the application to the computer is not required.
Initially, this YouTube alternative was developed as a tool for video compression. During the development, the creators of Clipchamp “stuffed” it with utilities to edit video content before uploading to a video platform such as YouTube, Google Drive, Vimeo or Facebook.
To use this service to edit a video file that already exists on YouTube, you need to log in to Clipchamp and just drag the YouTube clip here. Editing means cropping and correction (including the “rotation” and “mirror reflection” functions) of each individual frame, adjusting the color gamut, adjusting the brightness and saturation of colors, as well as changing the resolution of images.
Experienced users consider the following feature a great plus for Clipchamp. If desired, the video file can be reformatted, and before uploading to YouTube, reduce its size without losing quality.
For iOS Owners
Designed specifically for iOS owners, the YouTube alternative is called ProTube. One of the inconveniences of this application, users call some “thoughtfulness”. When the device is rotated 90 degrees, the image orientation is rebuilt automatically, and at this time the Internet “slows down”.
In ProTube, the function of accelerating / slowing down the playback is available, as well as the ability to adjust the resolution of the video files. If necessary, the user can minimize the video (make the image miniature) and move it to any part of the monitor.