The best ZY Player alternatives
4 tools that do a similar job to ZY Player, 4 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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ZY PlayerDesktop video player for online video sources, with no ads, for Windows, Mac and Linux.
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Lepton
Open source · MIT · ★ 10.3k
A lean desktop app for organizing code snippets stored in GitHub Gists or GitLab snippets.
Best for: Developers who already keep snippets as GitHub Gists or GitLab snippets; People who want a desktop editor for their existing snippet collection
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PicGo
Open source · MIT · ★ 27.5k
Desktop app that uploads pasted or dropped images to image hosts and copies the link.
Best for: Bloggers and note-takers who paste screenshots into Markdown editors; Developers writing docs who need hosted image links
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YesPlayMusic
Open source · MIT · ★ 33.5k
A third-party desktop and web player for NetEase Cloud Music with a clean interface.
Best for: Existing NetEase Cloud Music users who want a different player interface; Chinese-speaking users who use NetEase Cloud Music daily
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Gridea
Open source · MIT · ★ 10.2k
A desktop app for writing Markdown posts that publish to a static blog.
Best for: Bloggers who want to own their content as plain static files; People who prefer writing in Markdown on a desktop app
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to ZY Player. We don't take payment for placement.