Minitube VS Plyr

Minitube

Minitube is a YouTube desktop application.

Plyr

A simple, accessible and customisable HTML5 media player

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2021-07-27

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2023-09-23

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Minitube and Plyr)

Plyr

Video

100 100%

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0% 0

YouTube Tools

0 0%

YouTube Tools

100% 100

Video Platform

44 44%

Video Platform

56% 56

Marketing Platform

0 0%

Marketing Platform

100% 100

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Reviews

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Minitube Reviews

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It’s worth pointing out that it has a filtering feature that you can activate to ensure that children do not have access to inappropriate content. Once you play a video on Minitube, playback will continue from one video to the next automatically.

Source: rigorousthemes.com

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Plyr should be more popular than Minitube. It has been mentiond 13 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Minitube mentions (5)

YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/newest” option
In regards to alternative Youtube clients. Not sure if it fits your requirements but I've used MiniTube which is pretty decent: https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
YouTube Player
Minitube is what I use, not open source though. https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube. Source: over 2 years ago
Invidious: An alternative front-end to YouTube
Or the native cross-plattform opensource Minitube from https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube . Is already available on most systems through the package manager. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Invidious: An alternative front-end to YouTube
There's already some competition in this space: https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
I made native YouTube player for macOS. For fun!. Safari is an optimized browser but looking at my stats these videos playback take-up 30x less resources 🤯
You might like Minitube. Been around for a few years but still appears to work. Source: about 3 years ago

Plyr mentions (13)

Embed video player
Has anyone tried integrating something like Plyr into a framer site? Source: 6 months ago
Best way to showcase videos without the site becoming slow?
Just going to post my free no-code tool again for u/Thenmatwaslike. It's a great way to visualize the changes you're making to your Vimeo video with plyr.io, and then it spits out the code you need for your Webflow site. Https://vimeoconfig.com/. Source: about 1 year ago
Best way to showcase videos without the site becoming slow?
Here is a free no-code tool I made that lets you use plyr.io with your Vimeo videos. The benefit also being that you can customize your Vimeo videos appearance without a Vimeo pro account: vimeoconfig.com. Source: about 1 year ago
Anyone Knows of A Good Responsive Video Player For SvelteKit?
You shouldn’t need a svelte-specific video player—you can just use a vanilla js library, Plyr for example. Source: over 1 year ago
Replacing web media players with CSS/Userscript
Is it possible to force the media player style to be replaced with the plyr.io style? Source: over 1 year ago