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NewPipe 0.26

210 points by rc00 3y ago

DrNosferatu 3y ago
Also, checkout NewPipe with built in SponsorBlock functionality: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe
- EspadaV9 3y ago
  I wonder if this is something NewPipe would add in themselves. Would rather use the official version than a fork, if possible. Edit: as soon as I posted that I read more than the first line of the readme and saw this link to the NewPipe blog - https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/newpipe-and-online-advertising/ https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/newpipe-and-online-advertisi...
ravenstine 3y ago
So glad this finally adds support for the "Live" tab on channels!
2Gkashmiri 3y ago
i use https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe which is super amazing. sadly the PR to implement sponsorblock in the main newpipe was worked on for almost a year but unfortunately the youtube-dl fiasco happened around the same time and that spooked the devs who refused to import the PR. That forced the PR author to set up the fork which is working surprisingly well. People were imagining that the fork would not survive but i have been using it since day 1 and can't imagine newpipe or libretube without sponsorblock.
- wanderingmind 3y ago
  +1 for sponsor block fork. Its available through Izzydroid repo [1] that can be added to F-droid. The author should release it soon as well. Its amazing how well it works [1] https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.polymorphicshade.newpipe https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.polymorphicshad...
  - faust201 3y ago
    Izzysoft is doing valuable effort.
- soulofmischief 3y ago
  Just curious, because my intuition is that anyone who finds sponsorblock to be crucial is likely consuming a decent bid of media... What are your strategies for compensating the creators you enjoy?
  - faust201 3y ago
    Many people are patreon or other subscribers. Not needed to watch ads. I would rather pay than waste my bandwidth while on train.
    - soulofmischief 3y ago
      I do support creators on patreon, but I find it is too expensive to scale to every creator whose content I enjoy. I wish there was a tip jar under each video and that it integrated with alternative frontends such as NewPipe, but I also don't want to hear "don't forget to like and subscribe, make sure to hit the bell, and consider leaving a tip" in every single video.
      - stjohnswarts 3y ago
        just white noise at this point for me
      - autoexec 3y ago
        > but I also don't want to hear "don't forget to like and subscribe, make sure to hit the bell, and consider leaving a tip" in every single video. I don't know why youtube forces people do that, but it'd be nice if they fixed their algorithm so that it wasn't needed.
  - 2Gkashmiri 3y ago
    compensation for what? paint me ignorant but you read dozens of articles linked on HN daily. I do too, how many times have you compensated them? people who blog for fun, or have a hobby or whatever. tomorrow they start streaming or recording and whatever so why should i compensate them? why are we normalizing the idea that someone can suddenly start a youtube channel and now its the "responsibility" of subscribers to feed them? its not a zero sum game. i understand that but the current model works or not, i dont know because i do not contribute.
- theNewMicrosoft 3y ago
  Another fork with SponsorBlock support plus a few extra video platforms is the bravenewpipe https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe
kzrdude 3y ago
Newpipe has always unreliable and prone to not working for me, unfortunately. Crashes. Youtube import gives just 4 subscriptions while I have hundreds and so on.
- rldjbpin 3y ago
  +1 after using piped and newpipe for 1.5+ years, it is not good enough to fully replace youtube app for me. although i believe it has been mostly on the server side and not as much on the client (besides random crashes that were happening when opening a "new" type of video in recent past). currently, most new videos of my subscriptions (manually added) do not show up on time. they often pop up in retrospect, maybe after another person has watched that video on the piped instance. on ios yattee allows use of both invidious and piped instances and the difference in reliability is night and day between the two. i truly hope the project makes further strides in and achieve a stable experience.
- the_third_wave 3y ago
  Did you send crash reports, report the problem with the missing subscriptions, maybe even have a go at finding the cause if you happen to be versed in the technology? I've never seen it crash [1] on any of my devices so I can add that piece of anecdata to yours. I'm not a heavy Newpipe user since I run my own Invidious instance which offers close to the same functionality (minus playing in the background since that needs to be implemented on the device while Invidious is a web service) but for those times I do use Newpipe it works well. On those odd instances it doesn't load the video the solution tends to be an upgrade away. [1] as in 'the app crashes', not 'the video does not play', the former is a crash while the latter is an incompatibility with Youtube and tends to be solved by upgrading Newpipe.
  - Sakos 3y ago
    It crashed multiple times daily when I tried it a few months back. Same thing on my partner's phone.
  - kzrdude 3y ago
    I feel bad now for posting something negative, it's just a spontaneous report of me trying to use it. Since I've never successfully stepped over to using it and become a user, I don't report bugs either. I've simply been curious to try, but content with youtube (mobile web version)
trulyrandom 3y ago
I remember there being talks of a complete rewrite of Newpipe. Did anything come of that? I'm a happy user, so I don't really have an opinion on whether it should happen or not.
- the-scrabi 3y ago
  Schabi here: The team wants to start the rewrite in 2024 after 0.26.0 got released. The reson for the rewrite: Codebase got hard to maintin so we need to refactor. Also android changed the UI style and the UI frameworks a lot. We want to stay up to date with that.
  - sureglymop 3y ago
    How does one get involved? Are contributors welcome? – I know Kotlin and Jetpack Compose much better than the old ways of Android UIs though.
    - the-scrabi 3y ago
      Yes. Contributors are abaoloutly welcome, and Jetpack and Kotlin is exactly what we are looking for. However we need to prepare and sort out things before we can start. Stay put and follow our blog to find out when we begin: https://newpipe.net/blog https://newpipe.net/blog
  - russdill 3y ago
    Pretty happy 0.26.0 went out first. There's a lot of big changes and fixes in there that really are huge steps forward in the app.
poulpy123 3y ago
Newpipe is one of the best app I have on my phone. Congrats to the dev
- Erratic6576 3y ago
  I’m looking forward to having it on iOS. EU! Eu all the Way
  - Zambyte 3y ago
    I missed something - is the EU forcing Apple to let people use the phones they buy? If so, how?
    - beeboobaa 3y ago
      Digital Markets Act
      - rjzzleep 3y ago
        As of now, it looks more like a maybe, or am I wrong?
  - treyd 3y ago
    That's going to be a long way off since it's a Java project and fairly well integrated into Android's APIs.
    - nani8ot 3y ago
      NewPipe Extractor [1] can be used independently, e.g. the piped web front-end [2] also uses it. [1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor [2] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
  - bluber84 3y ago
    I‘m quite unsure…so I’m asking the community here. Is this a good newpipe distribution for iOS: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/newpipe-music-videos/id6450053445 https://apps.apple.com/de/app/newpipe-music-videos/id6450053...
dre85 3y ago
NewPipe is one of the best apps available on Android. The only thing missing for me currently is Android Auto support.
- nvrg 3y ago
  Very esoteric app, however I think Ymusic needs to be mentioned whenever YT alternatives are brought up. It streams only the MP3 of the video and the UI is cleaner imo - so it's easier to use if you intend to only listen to "podcasts" or music as an alternative to Spotify.
  - no-reply 3y ago
    Don't know about Ymusic as it doesn't seem open source, but seal [0] seems like a good alternative, based on yt-dlp 0: https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal
  - crtasm 3y ago
    Sounds good. Newpipe can stream audio only too.
  - KAKAN 3y ago
    There's also ViMusic, which is open source: https://github.com/vfsfitvnm/ViMusic/ https://github.com/vfsfitvnm/ViMusic/
- ForkMeOnTinder 3y ago
  This is just begging the question: surely you don't watch videos while driving? And if you just want the audio, there are music-focused YT apps (ViMusic, or like sibling said, YMusic)
  - explorigin 3y ago
    Newpipe has a built-in "Play in Background" feature that would be awesome while driving. There are tons of podcast-like content videos on YT that would be fine for a commute.
mikae1 3y ago
Hail NewPipe! “Background” playback is just awesome and only downloads the audio stream. Use it all the time for listening to lectures and presentations as podcasts.
- j1elo 3y ago
  I tried to do the same with music but for some reason the next enqueued song has the tendency of going straight up to 20 min, 60 min, 3 hour, 10 hour long videos. Not sure why. But this was reliably repeatable. Starting from any given song, I'd hit Next and before 5 to 10 videos I'd already be in the 10hrs long spectrum. Another thing that would also happen too frequently is that the next suggested video gets locked on always different videos of the same song. Once and again. Without any way to limit video duration and some filter to skip videos with a too similar name to the ones already played, it was useless to me. We could argue that that's just the next video suggested by YouTube's server. But YouTube ReVanced, on the other hand, doesn't exhibit any of those issues and starting from any song, will enqueue a variety of mostly non-repeated, single-song videos. Much better.
  - opan 3y ago
    Are you not putting specific videos into a playlist and then playing the playlist? You make it sound like some sort of magic is taking place adding videos you didn't personally vet.
    - Novosell 3y ago
      It has autoplay, just like normal YouTube.
      - j1elo 3y ago
        Yeah, I meant the autoplay, aka. "Auto-queue next stream": https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/player-enable-autoplay/ https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/player-enable-autoplay/
      - opan 3y ago
darkwater 3y ago
I use NewPipe regularly but unfortunately many videos play.. .weird, either skipping frames or pausing for a few milliseconds and then going faster. I have a Pixel 6a so it's as stock Android as you can get without using an AOSP based ROM... OTOH on the desktop Freetube is basically 10 times better than original Youtube under every aspect, and videos play perfectly. Kudos to Freetube.
noman-land 3y ago
NewPipe is overwhelmingly my most used app. It's simply amazing.
rzr 3y ago
Is anyone happy of newpipe on android tv ? On my freebox mini 4k (french ISP box) experience does not improve over time, but I'll give a try on latest.
- smusamashah 3y ago
  I have SmartTube on Android TV, been working perfectly over a year now.
notesinthefield 3y ago
I miss having an android phone for easy file system nav and NewPipe. I hate having to pay YT just for background playback
- 7839284023 3y ago
  I assume you are using an iPhone now? You could try e.g.: https://github.com/arichorn/uYouEnhanced https://github.com/arichorn/uYouEnhanced + https://github.com/powenn/AltServer-Linux-PyScript https://github.com/powenn/AltServer-Linux-PyScript (or alternatives) I dislike that I have to sideload the app every week again or it stops working but better than nothing I guess.
1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago
Only use NewPipe for SoundCloud. Quite stable for that. For YouTube it's a waste of time, IMHO. Constantly breaking, IME. Command line utilties for interacting with YouTube I wrote for myself are much more stable and almost never break. (Maybe once every few years. And fixed the same day by me.)
- autoexec 3y ago
  100% of my youtube use on mobile is via newpipe and I love it. On the desktop it's all command line, but I can't agree that newpipe is a waste of time. One of the features new pipe offers that I only started using is the ability to "subscribe" to channels. I never log into youtube, so subscriptions are client side only. They're basically just a list of bookmarks, but newpipe can also go out and pull down a listing of new videos from the channels I'm subscribed to and i can categorize those channels into groups. It's extremely useful! Newpipe does occasionally stop working, but it's been many months since it last happened. When it does happen, it's never newpipe's fault. Blame google (who sometimes intentionally tries to break things), but when that happens the command line usually still works and updates are pretty fast. My only complaint really is that sometimes new pipe will clear a long list of queued downloads. I'm not sure what triggers it, but it can be difficult to go back and track down what was queued up. For all I know, that's been fixed in this new update
  - 1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago
    "Newpipe does occasionally stop working, but..." If I can write utilities that almost never stop working, and this is not difficult at all, then why should I tolerate that. I just checked to see id SoundCloud is working and sure enough it isn't. This app like is not dependable.
SpaghettiCthulu 3y ago
I've recently started using [Grayjay](https://grayjay.app/ https://grayjay.app/). It's not open source, but it is source available and individuals are allowed to modify the code to their liking. I've found that it crashes more often than NewPipe, but the vastly expanded features, more frequent updates, and improved performance fetching subscriptions are all worth it imo.

210 points by rc00 3y ago

Also, checkout NewPipe with built in SponsorBlock functionality: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

EspadaV9 3y ago
I wonder if this is something NewPipe would add in themselves. Would rather use the official version than a fork, if possible. Edit: as soon as I posted that I read more than the first line of the readme and saw this link to the NewPipe blog - https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/newpipe-and-online-advertising/ https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/newpipe-and-online-advertisi...

ravenstine 3y ago

So glad this finally adds support for the "Live" tab on channels!

2Gkashmiri 3y ago

i use https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe which is super amazing. sadly the PR to implement sponsorblock in the main newpipe was worked on for almost a year but unfortunately the youtube-dl fiasco happened around the same time and that spooked the devs who refused to import the PR. That forced the PR author to set up the fork which is working surprisingly well. People were imagining that the fork would not survive but i have been using it since day 1 and can't imagine newpipe or libretube without sponsorblock.

wanderingmind 3y ago
+1 for sponsor block fork. Its available through Izzydroid repo [1] that can be added to F-droid. The author should release it soon as well. Its amazing how well it works [1] https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.polymorphicshade.newpipe https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.polymorphicshad...
- faust201 3y ago
  Izzysoft is doing valuable effort.
soulofmischief 3y ago
Just curious, because my intuition is that anyone who finds sponsorblock to be crucial is likely consuming a decent bid of media... What are your strategies for compensating the creators you enjoy?
- faust201 3y ago
  Many people are patreon or other subscribers. Not needed to watch ads. I would rather pay than waste my bandwidth while on train.
  - soulofmischief 3y ago
    I do support creators on patreon, but I find it is too expensive to scale to every creator whose content I enjoy. I wish there was a tip jar under each video and that it integrated with alternative frontends such as NewPipe, but I also don't want to hear "don't forget to like and subscribe, make sure to hit the bell, and consider leaving a tip" in every single video.
    - stjohnswarts 3y ago
      just white noise at this point for me
    - autoexec 3y ago
      > but I also don't want to hear "don't forget to like and subscribe, make sure to hit the bell, and consider leaving a tip" in every single video. I don't know why youtube forces people do that, but it'd be nice if they fixed their algorithm so that it wasn't needed.
- 2Gkashmiri 3y ago
  compensation for what? paint me ignorant but you read dozens of articles linked on HN daily. I do too, how many times have you compensated them? people who blog for fun, or have a hobby or whatever. tomorrow they start streaming or recording and whatever so why should i compensate them? why are we normalizing the idea that someone can suddenly start a youtube channel and now its the "responsibility" of subscribers to feed them? its not a zero sum game. i understand that but the current model works or not, i dont know because i do not contribute.
theNewMicrosoft 3y ago
Another fork with SponsorBlock support plus a few extra video platforms is the bravenewpipe https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe

kzrdude 3y ago

Newpipe has always unreliable and prone to not working for me, unfortunately. Crashes. Youtube import gives just 4 subscriptions while I have hundreds and so on.

rldjbpin 3y ago
+1 after using piped and newpipe for 1.5+ years, it is not good enough to fully replace youtube app for me. although i believe it has been mostly on the server side and not as much on the client (besides random crashes that were happening when opening a "new" type of video in recent past). currently, most new videos of my subscriptions (manually added) do not show up on time. they often pop up in retrospect, maybe after another person has watched that video on the piped instance. on ios yattee allows use of both invidious and piped instances and the difference in reliability is night and day between the two. i truly hope the project makes further strides in and achieve a stable experience.
the_third_wave 3y ago
Did you send crash reports, report the problem with the missing subscriptions, maybe even have a go at finding the cause if you happen to be versed in the technology? I've never seen it crash [1] on any of my devices so I can add that piece of anecdata to yours. I'm not a heavy Newpipe user since I run my own Invidious instance which offers close to the same functionality (minus playing in the background since that needs to be implemented on the device while Invidious is a web service) but for those times I do use Newpipe it works well. On those odd instances it doesn't load the video the solution tends to be an upgrade away. [1] as in 'the app crashes', not 'the video does not play', the former is a crash while the latter is an incompatibility with Youtube and tends to be solved by upgrading Newpipe.
- Sakos 3y ago
  It crashed multiple times daily when I tried it a few months back. Same thing on my partner's phone.
- kzrdude 3y ago
  I feel bad now for posting something negative, it's just a spontaneous report of me trying to use it. Since I've never successfully stepped over to using it and become a user, I don't report bugs either. I've simply been curious to try, but content with youtube (mobile web version)

trulyrandom 3y ago

I remember there being talks of a complete rewrite of Newpipe. Did anything come of that? I'm a happy user, so I don't really have an opinion on whether it should happen or not.

the-scrabi 3y ago
Schabi here: The team wants to start the rewrite in 2024 after 0.26.0 got released. The reson for the rewrite: Codebase got hard to maintin so we need to refactor. Also android changed the UI style and the UI frameworks a lot. We want to stay up to date with that.
- sureglymop 3y ago
  How does one get involved? Are contributors welcome? – I know Kotlin and Jetpack Compose much better than the old ways of Android UIs though.
  - the-scrabi 3y ago
    Yes. Contributors are abaoloutly welcome, and Jetpack and Kotlin is exactly what we are looking for. However we need to prepare and sort out things before we can start. Stay put and follow our blog to find out when we begin: https://newpipe.net/blog https://newpipe.net/blog
- russdill 3y ago
  Pretty happy 0.26.0 went out first. There's a lot of big changes and fixes in there that really are huge steps forward in the app.

poulpy123 3y ago

Newpipe is one of the best app I have on my phone. Congrats to the dev

Erratic6576 3y ago
I’m looking forward to having it on iOS. EU! Eu all the Way
- Zambyte 3y ago
  I missed something - is the EU forcing Apple to let people use the phones they buy? If so, how?
  - beeboobaa 3y ago
    Digital Markets Act
    - rjzzleep 3y ago
      As of now, it looks more like a maybe, or am I wrong?
- treyd 3y ago
  That's going to be a long way off since it's a Java project and fairly well integrated into Android's APIs.
  - nani8ot 3y ago
    NewPipe Extractor [1] can be used independently, e.g. the piped web front-end [2] also uses it. [1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor [2] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
- bluber84 3y ago
  I‘m quite unsure…so I’m asking the community here. Is this a good newpipe distribution for iOS: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/newpipe-music-videos/id6450053445 https://apps.apple.com/de/app/newpipe-music-videos/id6450053...

dre85 3y ago

NewPipe is one of the best apps available on Android. The only thing missing for me currently is Android Auto support.

nvrg 3y ago
Very esoteric app, however I think Ymusic needs to be mentioned whenever YT alternatives are brought up. It streams only the MP3 of the video and the UI is cleaner imo - so it's easier to use if you intend to only listen to "podcasts" or music as an alternative to Spotify.
- no-reply 3y ago
  Don't know about Ymusic as it doesn't seem open source, but seal [0] seems like a good alternative, based on yt-dlp 0: https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal
- crtasm 3y ago
  Sounds good. Newpipe can stream audio only too.
- KAKAN 3y ago
  There's also ViMusic, which is open source: https://github.com/vfsfitvnm/ViMusic/ https://github.com/vfsfitvnm/ViMusic/
ForkMeOnTinder 3y ago
This is just begging the question: surely you don't watch videos while driving? And if you just want the audio, there are music-focused YT apps (ViMusic, or like sibling said, YMusic)
- explorigin 3y ago
  Newpipe has a built-in "Play in Background" feature that would be awesome while driving. There are tons of podcast-like content videos on YT that would be fine for a commute.

mikae1 3y ago

Hail NewPipe! “Background” playback is just awesome and only downloads the audio stream. Use it all the time for listening to lectures and presentations as podcasts.

j1elo 3y ago
I tried to do the same with music but for some reason the next enqueued song has the tendency of going straight up to 20 min, 60 min, 3 hour, 10 hour long videos. Not sure why. But this was reliably repeatable. Starting from any given song, I'd hit Next and before 5 to 10 videos I'd already be in the 10hrs long spectrum. Another thing that would also happen too frequently is that the next suggested video gets locked on always different videos of the same song. Once and again. Without any way to limit video duration and some filter to skip videos with a too similar name to the ones already played, it was useless to me. We could argue that that's just the next video suggested by YouTube's server. But YouTube ReVanced, on the other hand, doesn't exhibit any of those issues and starting from any song, will enqueue a variety of mostly non-repeated, single-song videos. Much better.
- opan 3y ago
  Are you not putting specific videos into a playlist and then playing the playlist? You make it sound like some sort of magic is taking place adding videos you didn't personally vet.
  - Novosell 3y ago
    It has autoplay, just like normal YouTube.
    - j1elo 3y ago
      Yeah, I meant the autoplay, aka. "Auto-queue next stream": https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/player-enable-autoplay/ https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/player-enable-autoplay/
    - opan 3y ago

darkwater 3y ago

I use NewPipe regularly but unfortunately many videos play.. .weird, either skipping frames or pausing for a few milliseconds and then going faster. I have a Pixel 6a so it's as stock Android as you can get without using an AOSP based ROM... OTOH on the desktop Freetube is basically 10 times better than original Youtube under every aspect, and videos play perfectly. Kudos to Freetube.

noman-land 3y ago

NewPipe is overwhelmingly my most used app. It's simply amazing.

rzr 3y ago

Is anyone happy of newpipe on android tv ? On my freebox mini 4k (french ISP box) experience does not improve over time, but I'll give a try on latest.

smusamashah 3y ago
I have SmartTube on Android TV, been working perfectly over a year now.

notesinthefield 3y ago

I miss having an android phone for easy file system nav and NewPipe. I hate having to pay YT just for background playback

7839284023 3y ago
I assume you are using an iPhone now? You could try e.g.: https://github.com/arichorn/uYouEnhanced https://github.com/arichorn/uYouEnhanced + https://github.com/powenn/AltServer-Linux-PyScript https://github.com/powenn/AltServer-Linux-PyScript (or alternatives) I dislike that I have to sideload the app every week again or it stops working but better than nothing I guess.

1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago

Only use NewPipe for SoundCloud. Quite stable for that. For YouTube it's a waste of time, IMHO. Constantly breaking, IME. Command line utilties for interacting with YouTube I wrote for myself are much more stable and almost never break. (Maybe once every few years. And fixed the same day by me.)

autoexec 3y ago
100% of my youtube use on mobile is via newpipe and I love it. On the desktop it's all command line, but I can't agree that newpipe is a waste of time. One of the features new pipe offers that I only started using is the ability to "subscribe" to channels. I never log into youtube, so subscriptions are client side only. They're basically just a list of bookmarks, but newpipe can also go out and pull down a listing of new videos from the channels I'm subscribed to and i can categorize those channels into groups. It's extremely useful! Newpipe does occasionally stop working, but it's been many months since it last happened. When it does happen, it's never newpipe's fault. Blame google (who sometimes intentionally tries to break things), but when that happens the command line usually still works and updates are pretty fast. My only complaint really is that sometimes new pipe will clear a long list of queued downloads. I'm not sure what triggers it, but it can be difficult to go back and track down what was queued up. For all I know, that's been fixed in this new update
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago
  "Newpipe does occasionally stop working, but..." If I can write utilities that almost never stop working, and this is not difficult at all, then why should I tolerate that. I just checked to see id SoundCloud is working and sure enough it isn't. This app like is not dependable.

SpaghettiCthulu 3y ago

I've recently started using [Grayjay](https://grayjay.app/ https://grayjay.app/). It's not open source, but it is source available and individuals are allowed to modify the code to their liking. I've found that it crashes more often than NewPipe, but the vastly expanded features, more frequent updates, and improved performance fetching subscriptions are all worth it imo.