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Vanced is pretty good. It seems like it's just the official YouTube app but with premium for free. Newpipe is another ad-free YouTube app. https://newpipe.net/
by xwx 5y ago
Vanced is pretty good. It seems like it's just the official YouTube app but with premium for free.
Newpipe is another ad-free YouTube app. https://newpipe.net/ https://newpipe.net/
It's FOSS and doesn't use your Google account, or any of the YouTube APIs. You can still manage subscriptions but you have to import them manually.
- kyriakos 5y agoUnfortunately it's very buggy and still not ready for full time use. Crashes all the time, importing subscriptions is hard. But it's FOSS and I still use it regardless cause vanced concerns me because it needs access to my account
- MisterSandman 5y agoI personally use a different, fame account for Vanced. Most people should be doing that anyway because who knows when Google will crackdown on it and start blocking any account using Vanced.
- yellowapple 5y agoIt's a lot less crashy nowadays (at least from what I can tell from using it daily).
- jthrowsitaway 5y agoI want to like NewPipe but I've always had problems with resuming videos after pausing them in the background. Most of the time my progress is just completely lost. Also, full screen and popover mode have been broken since Android 12. I use Vanced at this point.
- WickyNilliams 5y agoResuming issues were bug in the last few versions, but has been fixed in the latest release.
- louky 5y agoStill broken for me, and I've used the thing for years - very familiar with the quirks.
- WickyNilliams 5y agoAlso a long time user, but the issues described were only the last few months for me. Perhaps there are device specific bugs. I just rolled back to an earlier version until they were remedied
- nyanpasu64 5y agoI assume most of NewPipe crashing when trying to open a video, is Google changing the YouTube video page to stop non-official clients from being able to watch the video.
- louky 5y agoNewPipe has had multiple unfixed regressions around opening videos, the pop-up player, and losing the time index of the current video. They started (for me) in the version that addressed the youtube change then the last two did nothing to fix them (for me) I used NewPipe for years many hours a day on multiple tablets and this recent issues are the only ones that's a showstopper - I'm on Vanced until the next update.
- BipolarCapybara 5y agoIn my expierience New Pipe is lacking. The fact you have to reimport the subscriptions manually is very tedious, besides I've found New Pipe breaks often and it won't let me load videos. It's pretty cool for listening to music while the screen is off, but I wouldn't recommend it as a daily Youtube driver.
- bufferoverflow 5y agoAs opposed to giving your Google password to Vanced?
- mkdirp 5y agoYou're not giving it to Vanced. It works through Micro G which uses Google's oauth flow to authenticate you. Anyway, personally I've moved my YouTube account to a dummy account.
- Krasnol 5y agoI've never seen it actually "break". The only times it's not working is because YouTube changed something and you need to download a new version which works pretty good with the appropriate repo in F-Droid.
- BipolarCapybara 5y agoDid they fix that you have to update it only through GitHub?
- Krasnol 5y agoI don't know when this was the case but it hasn't been since I've been using it. I just added the repo to F-Droid: https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/install-add-fdroid-repo/ https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/install-add-fdroid-repo/
- pmontra 5y agoIt tells me that there is a new version. It downloads it from somewhere and installs it. It could be GitHub but I don't know.
- operator-name 5y agoThere's also this fork that includes sponsorblock: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe
- meibo 5y agoIt explicitly doesn't provide Premium for free, all premium features but the picture in picture support are still locked behind purchase. The standout features are ad- and sponsorblock.
- xwx 5y agoHuh, interesting. Maybe it's changed, maybe I'm misremembering. In either case NewPipe has picture-in-picture playback and audio only playback. Not sure what else I'm missing from Premium.
- dirtyid 5y agohttps://github.com/Elijas/auto-youtube-subscription-playlist-2/issues https://github.com/Elijas/auto-youtube-subscription-playlist... I use google spread sheet script to manage a bunch subscriptions into different private playlists accessible via sharelinks in Newpipe. Allows me to keep things in sync with youtube account on other devices.
- BlameKaneda 5y agoI used to use Newpipe, but I realized that I couldn't port my YT playlists (how I keep track of music) to it. Vanced lets me log into my YT account so all of my playlists were available right off the bat.
- autoexec 5y agoNewpipe is what I use and I love it. I've seen it break on a few occupations and it could use a bit more polish, but it meets my needs. I might give Vanced a try at some point, but it looks like it wants access to your youtube account and lacks features I use. I'm pretty happy with Newpipe.
- ranguna 5y agoNot only that, but also sponsorblock, awesome feature that skips sponsors mid video (it can also skip other things like intros and stuff)
- ranguna 5y agoCorrection: venced supports sponsorblock