| ▲ | NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed(newpipe.net) |
| 160 points by nvader 4 hours ago | 42 comments |
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| ▲ | Frotag 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| IME newpipe breaks every few weeks or so, presumably because of some youtube change / obfuscation. Or at least that was the case a few years ago. I've had more success hosting an invidious instance and using the materialious client for mobile. And a bonus is that it comes with sponsorblock built in. https://invidious.io/ https://materialio.us/ |
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| ▲ | _blk 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Absolutely but I stop YouTube consumption if it's not through NewPipe, so a little productivity boost here and there is not too bad ;) | |
| ▲ | kyleee 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I think that is overstating it, there has been one recent breakage and fix in the last few months or more roughly. It would be interesting to see it plotted out on a timeline though. | | |
| ▲ | jimlikeslimes 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think there was a phase of repeated breakages a while back, but things seem to have stabilised. Fixes are released quickly ime too. | |
| ▲ | truckingthrow33 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I use it to mainly download videos, and that seems to break every few weeks. I just updated and it's fixed. Small price to pay. |
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| ▲ | EspadaV9 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There is a fork called PipePipe[0] too, that also implements SponsorBlock 0: https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe |
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| ▲ | dang an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think these are the main related past threads: NewPipe Is Turning 10 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45707575 - Oct 2025 (28 comments) NewPipe 0.26 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38732781 - Dec 2023 (91 comments) NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38144400 - Nov 2023 (389 comments) NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30449570 - Feb 2022 (220 comments) NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23871169 - July 2020 (590 comments) “My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759 - Oct 2019 (522 comments) |
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| ▲ | Sytten 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Newpipe is great, I tend to spend too much time on youtube. This at least limits it. It does break from time to time. |
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| ▲ | alskdj21 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Been a long time user of Newpipe. It do occasionally break but not that huge of a deal breaker for me. Only complaint is I can't select a livestream quality/resolution. I want to catch up to some news live and put those on background but it would use too much bandwidth since it's locked to a higher resolution. In such cases, I would just open them on Firefox, set to desktop mode, and listen from there. Afaik, Invidious doesn't support livestreams. |
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| ▲ | satvikpendem 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The issue is I like the algorithmic feed, as well as having all my subscriptions there. I believe that's not available in NewPipe without manually adding all subscription channels. |
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| ▲ | okanat 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | NewPipe can parse a Google data export dump and import all of your subs. |
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| ▲ | simon666 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I've been using and loving NewPipe since 2015 or 2016--whenever it first showed up on Fdroid. Really like the ability to play songs from bandcamp too. Although there's one bug in the bandcamp workflow that I wish was fixed: If you search for an artist then tap the artist page in the results this will take you to the albums screen. Click to the album, then if you either use the back arrow or swipe back you're returned to the search results rather than the list of albums on the artist page. |
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| ▲ | catify an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I don't use YouTube much nowadays. It's better for your mental health. I mostly use a fork called Tubular that has sponsored block |
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| ▲ | biglyburrito 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There's also Freetube, which is a fantastic desktop client. https://freetubeapp.io |
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| ▲ | digiown 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | For some reason I always preferred having tabs on desktop, so I can having stuff paused to be watched later. | |
| ▲ | pmarreck 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | is this just a way to browse youtube without ads or tracking, or what? I'm looking to just hide Shorts, but I want my recommendations. Not sure what's out there for that. | | |
| ▲ | user_unique 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'd recommend stayfree. It works great on mobile android with feature blocking (shorts and reels) and we'll as time based and scheduled blocks. You can remove the blocks by retyping a long prompt. |
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| ▲ | nvader 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Thanks, I've bookmarked it for later. |
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| ▲ | cermicelli an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If only it worked. We need a good alternative to YouTube that still let's creators feed themselves... Though I don't think it will ever happen... |
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| ▲ | bryanhogan 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What's the difference of NewPipe to ReVanced? |
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| ▲ | charcircuit 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Revanced is a mod for the official Android app, where NewPipe is an original app. In practice this means that Revanced will be much more feature complete than NewPipe. | | |
| ▲ | 2OEH8eoCRo0 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It also means revanced is legally dicey whereas newpipe is essentially a legal frontend/scraper of YouTube. | | |
| ▲ | digiown 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Revanced is only distributed as patches, probably to avoid being susceptible to the claims against the original Vanced. Worth noting that ReVanced has a lot more patches than just YouTube. |
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| ▲ | someperson 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| For the desktop, I recommend https://github.com/lawrencehook/remove-youtube-suggestions |
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| ▲ | tom_ 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Editorialized title! Portrait aspect ratio (or "vertical video", as it's described here - at least I assume that's what the term refers to - like, as if the landscape aspect ratio has no Y axis!) is not obviously mentioned anywhere. |
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| ▲ | netsharc 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I don't get why the poster thinks NewPipe doesn't support vertical videos (let's not be anal, we know what they mean) if the video is "vertical" then making it fullscreen will fill the phone's screen vertically. | | |
| ▲ | tom_ 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well, perhaps you know what they mean! Me? I can only read the words and then guess based on the words I read. If it's not clear from my post what guesses I have made based on the words I have read, and which assumptions I have made while making those guesses, then I apologise. I will try to make it easier for the reader next time. It sounds like you found no reference to portrait aspect ratio videos in the article either. | | |
| ▲ | Brian_K_White an hour ago | parent [-] | | I assumed it was just a sloppy way to actually say it has an option to filter out shorts. (Because shorts are always portrait, and it's a common wish to want to eliminate shorts.) Either way, I also knew what they meant, because "vertical video" is not an inscrutable term that leaves any room to guess it's meaning incorrectly. It's entirely scrutable. You can keep trying to defend the obtuse complaint that all videos have a vertical dimension, but if it were me I think I would not be so eager to advertise that I was this baffled by this. | | |
| ▲ | Dylan16807 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes, we can assume "vertical video" means "shorts". But once we do that, I still don't see anything on the front page or the FAQ or the github page that mentions shorts. The HN title had "without vertical videos" jammed in and that needs clarification. Maybe there's a toggle somewhere to hide shorts? Or maybe it doesn't have a shorts feed but it otherwise has shorts? Or something else? It's not clear. | | |
| ▲ | Brian_K_White 15 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I don't either. But I didn't install the app so it's still possible. But yeah I don't see anything either. |
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| ▲ | tom_ an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | The point of my post was that the title is editorialized. Am I allowed to say "Did you click the link"? Probably not. But, still, let me suggest that you click the link. Once you've clicked the link, compare the title of the page you find yourself on to the title posted here. Now you've compared them, ask yourself: are they the same? I just did this experiment myself, and the answer was: no. The title of the page at time of my click is this: "NewPipe - a free YouTube client". The title of the HN submission at the time I'm composing this message is this: "NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed". We are oft implored, not only by our famous and much-valued dang, but also the other guy (whatever his name is. He does a great job too though), not to editorialize the titles by submitting submissions with titles other than the actual title. How can you tell if the submitted title is other than the actual title? That's easy. You read the one and read the other and compare the two and see if they're different. (Which is another way of restating the previous paragraph.) In this case: they are. (Or at least were at time of writing! Since you'll be reading this in the future.) Hence my complaint. The vertical video thing? That was just my little joke. OF COURSE I KNOW THAT VERTICAL VIDEO MEANS PORTRAIT VIDEO. And, yes, I have visited youtube.com, and have had a big pile of portrait shorts shit up the feed, same as everybody else. I am not completely... wait, hang on. I am completely stupid. Because I thought it would be so obvious that it was a joke, that nobody would bother to quibble. They'd just chuckle at my attempt to amuse the reader, or roll their eyes at it and ignore it, and then go on to moan at me about some other part of my post. Though, reading my post again, more fool me perhaps. I guess I didn't leave people enough other material to complain about. Sorry. I'll try to do better in future. |
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| ▲ | _HMCB_ 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I see no mention of not playing vertical videos on their website. |
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| ▲ | CivBase an hour ago | parent [-] | | It absolutely works with YouTube shorts. It just doesn't put them in your subscriptions or let an algorithm feed them to you. | | |
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| ▲ | weightedreply 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| See also: Tubular https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.polymorphicshade.tubular... |
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| ▲ | chrysoprace 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Context: Tubular is a fork of NewPipe that adds SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike integration. |
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| ▲ | iCstyle an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| SwizzTube for iOS is also great |
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| ▲ | CivBase an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I primarily use NewPipe, but I'll also throw out Grayjay as a client with similar benefits. They work a little differently and since Google sometimes pushes out breaking changes to YouTube's API, I'll switch to Grayjay while I wait for the eventual NewPipe update. In my experience, the Grayjay player also tends to work better with live streams. |
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| ▲ | 2OEH8eoCRo0 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I love newpipe I've watched hundreds of hours of videos on my shield tv with it. |
