minitube
no download video button, which is weird. dont love that its a gui and its not absolutely gorgeous also dont love that its ripping through 316mb at the homepage. ui seems clunky, and overall, im just not a huge fan.
freetube
electron has a download button, change media formats button, and local playlists did not see anything interesting about it using 294 + 221 + 146 + 78 + 62 = 801mb of ram across all its processes ( yuck )
tartube
less of a youtube browsing client and more of a youtube file manager
headset
wants a youtube api key, nope.
ytfzf
uses invidious as a backend terminal based uses my default player to play the video awesome ux ( fzf to search for which video i want after i search? genius. ) posix shell script ( will likely be easy to play with if needed!! ) i like this i want to figure out a different player than mpv though, or atleast some other settings for mpv, because i would love a faststream like interface in my player
invidious-cli
not in nixpkgs so i would need to download and put in my dotfiles, and i think thats not necessary, as ytfzf seems to work great.
yewtube
cli youtube streamer uses my default player seems to be trying to do same thing as ytfzf but worse
smtube
installation failed on my first try and i just didnt look into it further
i did try:
youtube-tui pipe-viewer
and i liked them, they were easily the best out of the other options. i just stopped wanting to write these reviews when i realized how good ytfzf is.