Grayjay is the source available video client that has plugin support for youtube. It's not open source like freetube, new pipe, etc... but they are trying to do the right thing

Strong opinions:

• Dark mode only
• Not open source

They are trying to do some cool things

• Sync watch history peer to peer across devices,
• Follow a creator on multiple platforms

Things they do really well

• Their youtube plugin works really well, when freetube and newpipe have issues, gray jay always still works

This is all great, right? Whats the problem - Youtube has had some RSS hiccups over the last few days, which added a bunch of friction with freetube, so I thought I'd give grayjay another spin....

It's not ready to replace freetube, the strong opinions!, the desktop client is alpha, with a large number of channels the subscription video list drops lots of videos, can't really filter by watched videos, can't mark a video as watched... rough stuff that freetube gets right

The killer feature should be cross device watch history! (Nobody else is doing this! desktop, android, desktop)... and yet, it doesn't really work. At least with the desktop clients they don't sync unless you repair to the phone, etc

I don't think I can really use grayjay as a daily driver, I'll keep giving it a go when freetube has hiccups... so i'm not done with it.

Unlike freetube you can't support grayjay with crypto, only with stripe! sigh