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Best Offline-First Media Servers for self-hosting

The 13 best Offline-First media servers you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

MeTube

Web UI for downloading video from YouTube and many sites

Replaces YouTube Premium

★ 14.8k Easy setup AGPL-3.0

Tube Archivist

Self-hosted YouTube media server with metadata and search

Replaces YouTube

★ 8.5k Medium setup GPL-3.0

Pinchflat

Self-hosted YouTube media archiving for media servers

Replaces YouTube

★ 5.4k Easy setup AGPL-3.0

Streamyfin

Free and open-source Jellyfin client for mobile devices

Replaces Infuse, Plex mobile app

★ 5.2k Easy setup MPL-2.0

Finamp

Jellyfin music player with offline downloads

Replaces Plexamp, Spotify

★ 4.3k Easy setup MPL-2.0

Findroid

Third-party Android client for Jellyfin with offline playback

Replaces Plex for Android

★ 4.3k Easy setup MIT

Strawberry Music Player

Music player and collection organizer with Subsonic support

Replaces iTunes, Clementine

★ 4k Easy setup GPL-3.0

Fladder

Cross-platform Flutter client for Jellyfin

Replaces Plex, Emby Theater

★ 2.6k Easy setup MIT

mStream

Personal music streaming server with mobile apps

Replaces Spotify

★ 2.4k Easy setup GPL-3.0

Tempo

Material You Subsonic music client for Android

Replaces Spotify, Plexamp

★ 2.2k Easy setup GPL-3.0

Musicn

Command-line tool to download high-quality music

Replaces Spotify

★ 1.8k Easy setup MIT

Amperfy

iOS music streaming client for Ampache and Subsonic

Replaces Spotify, Apple Music

★ 1.8k Easy setup GPL-3.0

Ultrasonic

Free Subsonic and Navidrome music streaming client

Replaces Spotify

★ 500 Easy setup GPL-3.0

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Offline-First within the media servers category. Compare them on the individual app pages for setup difficulty and resource requirements.