NewPipe Open source · GPL-3.0 ★ 39k
The lightweight YouTube experience for Android
Introduction
NewPipe - a free YouTube client
## The lightweight YouTube experience for Android
Do you like watching videos on YouTube but want an intuitive, feature-rich and privacy friendly app for that? NewPipe has been created with the purpose of getting the original YouTube experience on your smartphone without annoying ads and questionable permissions. The application is open source and you can check on it at GitHub.
## Main Features
NewPipe – the smart streaming solution
- Fast
- Small
- Battery Saving
- Little Data Consumption
- Offline usage
- Extended Privacy
- Background Player
- Popup Player
- Subscriptions
- Bookmarks and Local Playlists
- History
## Privacy and playback
We protect your privacy:
- No proprietary Google APIs
- Only send information which are required to get video and channel details
- Decide what information we keep
- We store everything offline on your device
Listen to your favourite music while using other apps: Play in background. Create playlists for an endless music experience. Save mobile data volume (we only download the audio).
Never stop playing! View videos whenever you like. Resize and move it wherever you like. Use the full comfort of our normal video player.
## Offline usage
Customize your offline experience:
- Set title
- Choose between video, audio or captions
- Select the most suitable file format
- Use the resolution you need
## Supported Services
- YouTube is one of the most popular video and live streaming platforms, including music, news, gaming and much more.
- PeerTube is a decentralized video platform. Any PeerTube instance can be added to NewPipe.
- SoundCloud is a streaming platform for music.
- Bandcamp is an artist-friendly platform for sharing music. It offers user-friendly DRM-free downloads.
- media.ccc.de is the video archive and live streaming platform of the German hacker and information security activist group Chaos Computer Club.
## Get NewPipe
Android 5+. You can also add our own F-Droid repository to your client to receive updates even faster. F-Droid is a trusted catalogue of Free and Open Source applications for Android. Install the F-Droid app to get notified about updates. It enables you to download and update them too.
## Free and open source
NewPipe is free and open source. Dozens of people bring NewPipe forward and translate it into 60+ languages. You can check the source code on GitHub and contribute to NewPipe. NewPipe is covered by the GPL 3.0 license. Get NewPipe from F-Droid and discover more FOSS apps.
YouTube clientAndroid appOpen sourceExtended privacyBackground playerPopup playerOffline usageSubscriptions
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Deployment
NewPipe 官方 F-Droid 仓库
推荐大多数 Android 用户添加 NewPipe 自有 F-Droid 仓库安装,以便更快获得官方签名更新。
GitHub Releases APK
适合希望手动下载官方发布 APK 并校验签名指纹后安装或更新的用户。
F-Droid 默认仓库
适合偏好通过 F-Droid 官方目录安装和更新、且能接受更新到达较慢的用户。
自行构建调试 APK
适合开发者或高级用户从源码构建以最快体验新功能,但配置和维护成本更高。
Pull Request 专用 APK
适合测试特定 PR 中的功能或修复,且可与官方应用并行安装以避免影响主数据。
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Details
Type Open-source software
License GPL-3.0
Repository TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
GitHub Stars 39,047
Last commit 3 周前
Last verified 2026-07-18
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