
MotionBox for Ubuntu can be downloaded from here. It features a dark mode, audio only mode and the ability to stream videos upto 4K. MotionBox is a free, open source and ad-free desktop app that allows you to browse and stream Torrents, YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo and SoundCloud videos using DuckDuckGo search API. Youtube-viewer packages can be downloaded from here. It also allows you to log in to your YouTube account enabling two way sync. It can display video metadata like video length, number of views, likes and dislikes and comments. Written in Perl, this app supports playing videos in a player of your choice and allows you to fine tune search results using all the typical filters available in the official YouTube website. Youtube-viewer / Gtk-youtube-viewer is a lightweight application for searching and streaming videos from YouTube. Pros: A command line interface is also available, provides the ability to download videos You will also get regular notifications about new video uploads in any of the channels you have to subscribed to in the minitube.ĭownloadable packages for minitube can be found here. Minitube doesn’t require a browser to search and stream videos, thus it preserves battery life. While being light on resources, it supports lots of YouTube features like a powerful search engine, filters for inappropriate content and channel subscriptions that too without any need to login. Minitube is a desktop YouTube application that aims to deliver a TV like experience on the Linux desktop. Pros: Lightweight, easy to use clutter free interface In many cases, these apps will provide advanced functionality than official YouTube website where most of the options are hidden behind a login.

While many popular apps like youtube-dl are available for downloading YouTube videos on Linux, this article will mainly focus on those apps that allows you to search and stream videos on a Desktop Linux PC without having to open a browser. In this guide I will list all major desktop YouTube players available today for Linux users. If you don’t like to use the official YouTube website and looking for some alternative ways to stream Youtube videos, this article has a list for you.
