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NewPipe

A free lightweight YouTube frontend for Android.


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WARNING: PUTTING NEWPIPE OR ANY FORK OF IT INTO GOOGLE PLAYSTORE VIOLATES THEIR TERMS OF CONDITIONS.

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Description

NewPipe does not use any Google framework libraries, or the YouTube API. It only parses the website in order to gain the information it needs. Therefore this app can be used on devices without Google Services installed. Also, you don't need a YouTube account to use NewPipe, and it's FLOSS.

Features

  • Search videos
  • Display general information about a video
  • Watch YouTube videos
  • Listen to YouTube videos
  • Popup mode (floating player)
  • Select the streaming player to watch the video with
  • Download videos
  • Download audio only
  • Open a video in Kodi
  • Show Next/Related videos
  • Search YouTube in a specific language
  • Watch/Block age restricted material
  • Display general information about channels
  • Search channels
  • Watch videos from a channel
  • Orbot/Tor support (not yet directly)
  • 1080p/2k/4k support
  • View history
  • Subscribe to channels
  • Search history
  • Search/Watch Playlists
  • Watch as queues Playlists
  • Queuing videos

Coming Features

  • Multiservice support (eg. SoundCloud)
  • Bookmarks
  • Subtitles support
  • livestream support
  • ... and many more

Multiservice support

Although NewPipe only supports YouTube at the moment, it's designed to support many more streaming services. The plan is, that NewPipe will get such support by the version 2.0.

Contribution

Whether you have ideas, translations, design changes, code cleaning, or real heavy code changes, help is always welcome. The more is done the better it gets!

If you'd like to get involved, check our contribution notes.

Donate

If you like NewPipe we'd be happy about a donation. You can either donate via Bitcoin or BountySource. For further information about donating to NewPipe, please visit our website.

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License

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NewPipe is Free Software: You can use, study share and improve it at your will. Specifically you can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.