The way I see it, the mobile app ecosystem for PeerTube has yet to take off, in spite of the fact that it has a seemingly decent API. More people appear to be using the platform than ever before, which is great, but we still seem to be lacking a general ecosystem that Mastodon or even Lemmy has.
To my knowledge, these are the only apps I’ve ever found that work with PeerTube:
- Thorium: Supports video playback and sign-in, doesn’t support comments or replies or seemingly any social features?
- P2Play: Seems to support commenting, but abandoned 3 years ago or so.
- NewPipe: Actually pretty good as a player, but not really designed around the social API at all. Makes sense, given the app is more of a “download and play videos without an account” type of video app.
- FediLab: Supposedly supports PeerTube, actually seems like a featureful client, but I’ve always kind of felt iffy about whether a general multi-platform app could make for a good experience.
It just feels as though we’re lacking a quality mobile client for PeerTube, and I think it’s a missed opportunity. Do we currently now of any other efforts out there to build for the platform?
As a new peertube instance owner, I asked myself the same. I‘m not a huge programmer so I can’t tell you I‘ll do it but I think so too.