FreeTube Android

An open source YouTube player built with privacy in mind

AppID:	io.freetubeapp.freetube
Author:	MarmadileManteater
License:	AGPL-3.0-or-later
Donation:	Bitcoin LiberaPay
InRepoSince:	2023-01-08
LastRepoUpdate:	2024-04-09
LastAppUpdate:	2024-04-09
LastVersion:	0.20.0.116
Categories:	Multimedia
APK source:	Github
Google Play:	Check if it's there

FreeTube Android (formerly FreeTubeCordova) is a YouTube client that uses uses a built in extractor to grab and serve data / videos from YouTube. The Invidious API can also be optionally used. No official YouTube APIs are used to obtain data. Your subscriptions and history are stored locally on your device and are never sent out.

Features:

Watch videos without ads
Use YouTube without Google tracking you using cookies and JavaScript
Organize your subscriptions into Profiles to create a more focused feed
Export and import subscriptions from a variety of sources (Ex: YouTube, NewPipe, Invidious)
Support for SponsorBlock
Support for Comments and Replies
Support for YouTube Chapters
Option to password protect settings
Parental controls
Subscribe to channels without an account

FreeTube Android is currently in Beta. While it should work well for most users, there are still bugs and missing features that need to be addressed.

Anti-Features:

NonFreeNet (this application promotes/depends a non-Free network service):
⇒ The app connects to YouTube.

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While you can download the APKs here directly, you should preferably use an F-Droid client so the app stays up-to-date on your device. Some clients have this repo enabled by default, e.g. Neo Store or, of course, the IzzyOnDroid client by Sunil. With others (like the official client) you'll have to add this repo manually (see the hint on top of the package list for how to do that).

Packages

Version 0.20.0.116 (2024-04-09)

Android Versions:

Target: 14.0
MinVer: 7.0

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20 Libraries detected:

Libraries:

Android Support v4 (Development Framework)
The Android Support Library is not actually a single library, but rather a collection of libraries that can roughly be divided into two groups: compatibility and component libraries. For details, please see Understanding the Android Support Library.
AndroidX Activity (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
Android Jetpack Annotations (Utility)
library that contains the annotations for Android Jetpack.
AppCompat (Utility)
support newer Android features on older Android versions.
Constraint Layout Library (Utility)
library to reduce the number of nested views needed.
Coordinatorlayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to position top-level application widgets, such as AppBarLayout and FloatingActionButton.
Androidx Core (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
Databinding (Utility)
bind UI components in your layouts to data sources in your app using a declarative format.
Android Emoji2 Compat (UI Component)
core library to enable emoji compatibility in Kitkat and newer devices to avoid the empty emoji characters.
AndroidX Fragment (UI Component)
AndroidX library to encapsulate part of the user interface or behavior into reusable components.
Lifecycle (Utility)
perform actions in response to a change in the lifecycle status of another component, such as activities and fragments.
AndroidX Media (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
AndroidX Media3 (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
ProfileInstaller (Utility)
AndroidX library that enables libraries to prepopulate ahead of time compilation traces to be read by ART.
Recyclerview (Utility)
display large sets of data in your UI while minimizing memory usage.
Android Activity Saved State (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
Startup (Utility)
AndroidX library to implement a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at app startup.
Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable (Utility)
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across processes or persisted safely.
AndroidX Widget ViewPager2 (UI Component)
replaces AndroidX ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to-left layout support, vertical orientation, modifiable Fragment collections, etc.
Google Material Design (Utility)
library to help with material design guidelines.

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Version 0.20.0.115 (2024-04-04)

Android Versions:

Target: 14.0
MinVer: 7.0

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20 Libraries detected:

Libraries:

Android Support v4 (Development Framework)
The Android Support Library is not actually a single library, but rather a collection of libraries that can roughly be divided into two groups: compatibility and component libraries. For details, please see Understanding the Android Support Library.
AndroidX Activity (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
Android Jetpack Annotations (Utility)
library that contains the annotations for Android Jetpack.
AppCompat (Utility)
support newer Android features on older Android versions.
Constraint Layout Library (Utility)
library to reduce the number of nested views needed.
Coordinatorlayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to position top-level application widgets, such as AppBarLayout and FloatingActionButton.
Androidx Core (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
Databinding (Utility)
bind UI components in your layouts to data sources in your app using a declarative format.
Android Emoji2 Compat (UI Component)
core library to enable emoji compatibility in Kitkat and newer devices to avoid the empty emoji characters.
AndroidX Fragment (UI Component)
AndroidX library to encapsulate part of the user interface or behavior into reusable components.
Lifecycle (Utility)
perform actions in response to a change in the lifecycle status of another component, such as activities and fragments.
AndroidX Media (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
AndroidX Media3 (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
ProfileInstaller (Utility)
AndroidX library that enables libraries to prepopulate ahead of time compilation traces to be read by ART.
Recyclerview (Utility)
display large sets of data in your UI while minimizing memory usage.
Android Activity Saved State (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
Startup (Utility)
AndroidX library to implement a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at app startup.
Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable (Utility)
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across processes or persisted safely.
AndroidX Widget ViewPager2 (UI Component)
replaces AndroidX ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to-left layout support, vertical orientation, modifiable Fragment collections, etc.
Google Material Design (Utility)
library to help with material design guidelines.

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Version 0.19.2.110 (2024-02-24)

Android Versions:

Target: 13.0
MinVer: 7.0

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46 Libraries detected:

Libraries:

Android Support v4 (Development Framework)
The Android Support Library is not actually a single library, but rather a collection of libraries that can roughly be divided into two groups: compatibility and component libraries. For details, please see Understanding the Android Support Library.
AndroidX Activity (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
Android Jetpack Annotations (Utility)
library that contains the annotations for Android Jetpack.
Arch (Utility)
helper for other arch dependencies, including JUnit test rules that can be used with LiveData.
AppCompat (Utility)
support newer Android features on older Android versions.
Asynclayoutinflater (UI Component)
AndroidX library to inflate layouts asynchronously to avoid jank in the UI.
Android Support Library collections (Utility)
standalone efficient collections.
Concurrent (Utility)
AndroidX library to help move tasks off the main thread with coroutines and take advantage of ListenableFuture.
Coordinatorlayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to position top-level application widgets, such as AppBarLayout and FloatingActionButton.
Androidx Core (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
AndroidX Cursor Adapter (Utility)
static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.
Android Support Library Custom View (UI Component)
a module to implement custom views. Part of the Android Support Library.
Documentfile (UI Component)
a library to view a file document.
Drawerlayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement a Material Design drawer widget.
Android Emoji2 Compat (UI Component)
core library to enable emoji compatibility in Kitkat and newer devices to avoid the empty emoji characters.
AndroidX Fragment (UI Component)
AndroidX library to encapsulate part of the user interface or behavior into reusable components.
Interpolator (UI Component)
AndroidX library to use animation interpolators on older platforms.
androidx.legacy (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
Lifecycle (Utility)
perform actions in response to a change in the lifecycle status of another component, such as activities and fragments.
Loader (Utility)
library to load data for your UI that survives configuration changes.
AndroidX Local Broadcast Manager (Utility)
an application-wide event bus and embraces layer violations in your app: any component may listen events from any other.
AndroidX Media (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
Print (Utility)
a library to print photos, docs, and other graphics and images.
ResourceInspection (Development Aid)
AndroidX library to surface the attributes of custom views in Android Studio’s Live Layout Inspector.
Android Activity Saved State (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
Slidingpanelayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement a sliding pane UI pattern.
Startup (Utility)
AndroidX library to implement a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at app startup.
Swiperefreshlayout (UI Component)
implemtation of the swipe-to-refresh UI pattern.
Tracing (Utility)
AndroidX library to write trace events to the system trace buffer.
Vectordrawable (UI Component)
AndroidX library to render vector graphics.
Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable (Utility)
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across processes or persisted safely.
Viewpager (UI Component)
AndroidX library to display Views or Fragments in a swipeable format.
Webkit (Utility)
a static library to use android.webkit APIs that are not available for older platform versions.
Google Core Libraries for Java 6+ (Utility)
a set of core libraries that includes new collection types (such as multimap and multiset), immutable collections, a graph library, functional types, an in-memory cache, and APIs/utilities for concurrency, I/O, hashing, primitives, reflection, string processing, and much more.
Cordova Music Controls Plugin (UI Component)
a Cordova plugin displaying music controls in notifications (cordova-plugin-music-controls).
Cordova Universal Links Plugin (Utility)
Cordova plugin to support Universal/Deep Links for iOS/Android.
Cordova Advanced HTTP (Utility)
Cordova / Phonegap plugin for communicating with HTTP servers.
CordovaClipboard (Utility)
Clipboard management plugin for Cordova/PhoneGap.
Cordova Background Plugin (Utility)
a plugin for the Cordova framework to perform infinite background execution.
Cordova plugin for theme detection (Utility)
detect whether the dark mode is enabled on the device or not.
cordova-plugin-save-dialog (UI Component)
Cordova plugin for opening the native Save dialog and storing a file in the user-selected location.
Kotlin (Utility)
The Kotlin Programming Language
kotlinx.coroutines (Utility)
library support for Kotlin coroutines.
Apache Cordova (Development Framework)
formerly known as PhoneGap: enables software programmers to build applications for mobile devices using CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript instead of relying on platform-specific APIs.
Webkit Boundary Interfaces (Utility)
Chromium WebView helpers
IntelliJ IDEA (Utility)
development helper: integration for the IntelliJ IDEA IDE.

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