NewPipe

A free lightweight YouTube frontend for Android.

AppID:	org.schabi.newpipe
Author:	Team NewPipe
License:	GPL-3.0-or-later
Donation:	Webpage LiberaPay
InRepoSince:	2024-11-29
LastRepoUpdate:	2026-01-12
LastAppUpdate:	2026-01-12
LastVersion:	0.28.1
Categories:	Multimedia, Social Network, Internet
APK source:	Github
Google Play:	Check if it's there

NewPipe does not use any Google framework libraries, or the YouTube API. It only parses the website in order to gain the information it needs. Therefore this app can be used on devices without Google Services installed. Also, you don't need a YouTube account to use NewPipe, and it's FLOSS.

WhatsNew:

# Improved
Keep current player when clicking on timestamps
Try to recover pending download missions when possible
Add option to delete a download without also deleting file
Overlay Permission: display explanatory dialog for Android > R
Support on.soundcloud link opening
A lot of small improvements and optimizations

# Fixed
Fix short count formatting for Android versions below 7
Fix ghost notifications
Fixes for SRT subtitle files
Fixed tons of crashes

# Development
Internal code modernization

Hint: This app is available in both, F-Droid Main and IzzyOnDroid repos.

Anti-Features:

NonFreeNet (this application promotes/depends a non-Free network service):
⇒ The app depends on Youtube for videos.

Download Website Source Issues ChangeLog

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, Droid-ify, 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 0.28.1 (2026-01-12)

Android Versions:

Target: 15.0
MinVer: 5.0

Permissions:

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68 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.
Cardview (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement the Material Design card pattern with round corners and drop shadows.
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.
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.
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.
Exifinterface (Utility)
a library to read and write image file EXIF tags.
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.
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.
Preference (Utility)
a library to build interactive settings screens without needing to interact with device storage or manage the UI.
ProfileInstaller (Utility)
AndroidX library that enables libraries to prepopulate ahead of time compilation traces to be read by ART.
Room (Utility)
a persistence library that provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.
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.
Sqlite (Utility)
library that contains abstract interfaces along with basic implementations which can be used to build your own libraries that access SQLite.
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.
Transition (UI Component)
animates motion in the UI with starting and ending layouts.
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.
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.
WorkManager (Utility)
an API that makes it easy to schedule deferrable, asynchronous tasks that must be run reliably .
D8 dexer and R8 shrinker (Utility)
D8 is a replacement for the DX dexer and R8 is a replacement for the Proguard shrinking and minification tool.
Android-State (Utility)
a utility library for Android to save objects in a Bundle without any boilerplate. It uses an annotation processor to wire up all dependencies.
ExoPlayer (Utility)
an extensible media player library for Android
Google Material Design (Utility)
library to help with material design guidelines.
Auto (Utility)
a collection of source code generators for Java.
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.
Google Protocol Buffers (Utility)
library that deals with Protocol Buffers (a.k.a., protobuf) – Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.
nanojson (Utility)
a tiny, fast, and compliant JSON parser and writer for Java.
Process Phoenix (Utility)
facilitates restarting your application process (like a Phoenix from the ashes).
RxBinding (Utility)
RxJava binding APIs for Android's UI widgets.
Bridge (Utility)
a library for avoiding TransactionTooLargeException during state saving and restoration.
NoNonsense-FilePicker (UI Component)
a file/directory-picker for android.
OkHttp (Utility)
OkHttp is an HTTP+HTTP/2 client for Android and Java applications.
Picasso (Utility)
image downloading and caching library.
groupie (UI Component)
a simple, flexible library for complex RecyclerView layouts.
Markwon (Utility)
Markdown library.
RxJava (Utility)
RxJava (Reactive Extensions for the JVM) is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM.
Java NIO (Utility)
a collection of Java programming language APIs that offer features for intensive I/O operations.
Kotlin (Utility)
The Kotlin Programming Language
kotlinx.coroutines (Utility)
library support for Kotlin coroutines.
OkHttp okio Framework (Utility)
A modern I/O API for Java to make it much easier to access, store, and process your data.
ACRAⓉ (Utility)
Application Crash Reports for Android. By default, sends Crash reports silently without informint the user, but can be configured to ask first.
Apache Commons (Development Framework)
an Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable Java components.
Webkit Boundary Interfaces (Utility)
Chromium WebView helpers
commonmark-java (Utility)
Java implementation of CommonMark, a specification of the Markdown format.
jsoup (Utility)
a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides an API for extracting and manipulating data, using the best of DOM, CSS, and jquery-like methods.
Mozilla Rhino (Utility)
open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java.
prettytime (Utility)
social style date and time formatting for Java.
Reactive Streams (Utility)
provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking back pressure.
NewPipe Extractor (Utility)
a library for extracting things from streaming sites.
GigaGet (Utility)
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Version 0.28.0 (2025-08-01)

Android Versions:

Target: 13.0
MinVer: 5.0

Permissions:

Malware-Check:Passed

68 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.
Cardview (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement the Material Design card pattern with round corners and drop shadows.
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.
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.
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.
Exifinterface (Utility)
a library to read and write image file EXIF tags.
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.
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.
Preference (Utility)
a library to build interactive settings screens without needing to interact with device storage or manage the UI.
ProfileInstaller (Utility)
AndroidX library that enables libraries to prepopulate ahead of time compilation traces to be read by ART.
Room (Utility)
a persistence library that provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.
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.
Sqlite (Utility)
library that contains abstract interfaces along with basic implementations which can be used to build your own libraries that access SQLite.
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.
Transition (UI Component)
animates motion in the UI with starting and ending layouts.
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.
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.
WorkManager (Utility)
an API that makes it easy to schedule deferrable, asynchronous tasks that must be run reliably .
D8 dexer and R8 shrinker (Utility)
D8 is a replacement for the DX dexer and R8 is a replacement for the Proguard shrinking and minification tool.
Android-State (Utility)
a utility library for Android to save objects in a Bundle without any boilerplate. It uses an annotation processor to wire up all dependencies.
ExoPlayer (Utility)
an extensible media player library for Android
Google Material Design (Utility)
library to help with material design guidelines.
Auto (Utility)
a collection of source code generators for Java.
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.
Google Protocol Buffers (Utility)
library that deals with Protocol Buffers (a.k.a., protobuf) – Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.
nanojson (Utility)
a tiny, fast, and compliant JSON parser and writer for Java.
Process Phoenix (Utility)
facilitates restarting your application process (like a Phoenix from the ashes).
RxBinding (Utility)
RxJava binding APIs for Android's UI widgets.
Bridge (Utility)
a library for avoiding TransactionTooLargeException during state saving and restoration.
NoNonsense-FilePicker (UI Component)
a file/directory-picker for android.
OkHttp (Utility)
OkHttp is an HTTP+HTTP/2 client for Android and Java applications.
Picasso (Utility)
image downloading and caching library.
groupie (UI Component)
a simple, flexible library for complex RecyclerView layouts.
Markwon (Utility)
Markdown library.
RxJava (Utility)
RxJava (Reactive Extensions for the JVM) is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM.
Java NIO (Utility)
a collection of Java programming language APIs that offer features for intensive I/O operations.
Kotlin (Utility)
The Kotlin Programming Language
kotlinx.coroutines (Utility)
library support for Kotlin coroutines.
OkHttp okio Framework (Utility)
A modern I/O API for Java to make it much easier to access, store, and process your data.
ACRAⓉ (Utility)
Application Crash Reports for Android. By default, sends Crash reports silently without informint the user, but can be configured to ask first.
Apache Commons (Development Framework)
an Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable Java components.
Webkit Boundary Interfaces (Utility)
Chromium WebView helpers
commonmark-java (Utility)
Java implementation of CommonMark, a specification of the Markdown format.
jsoup (Utility)
a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides an API for extracting and manipulating data, using the best of DOM, CSS, and jquery-like methods.
Mozilla Rhino (Utility)
open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java.
prettytime (Utility)
social style date and time formatting for Java.
Reactive Streams (Utility)
provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking back pressure.
NewPipe Extractor (Utility)
a library for extracting things from streaming sites.
GigaGet (Utility)
a multi-thread & lightweight downloader.

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