Pipepipe is an amazing newpipe fork(which is a youtube client) that constantly recieves updates and is stable and relaible.I didn't see much love for this app anywhere so thought i should promote it.

FYI: Newpipe is NOT a youtube fork. It's an app build from scratch.

i meant client. Accidently typed fork because i was talking about a fork . Anyway its now fixed in the post.
- Ah yeah that makes more sense. :) Cheers

I think at this point, what's needed is a wiki page comparing the various forks and options. I'm not a heavy *Tube user, and I can't keep track.

AFAICT, there are at least five active Tube front-end apps:

NewPipe
NewPipe x Sponsorblock
FreeTube (the only one that isn't a NP fork)
Tubular (how does this differ from MP x SB?)
PipePipe

Active, committed maintainers are one of the most important features of any such tool, as Google constantly works to sabotage alt front-ends and timely work-around updates are critical. But some sort of feature comparison matrix would be nice.

Tubular (how does this differ from MP x SB?)
NewPipe x Sponsorblock is dead and Tubular is the continuation of it by the same author.
- Ah. Thanks.
- Interesting. I'm still using NewPipe x Sponsorblock and haven't had any issues with it. Any idea why the change? It looks more or less identical.

My YouTube use is quite limited. I was using the no longer maintained Newpipe Sponsorblock, recently switched to Tubular (rework of aforementioned). I also use Freetube Cordova and Invidious through UnTrackme.

Is there a reason for me to switch to this other fork? I watch probably 5-10 minutes a month.

Can't talk about the others but it is defenetly more polished , stable and better than invideous in my opinion .
- OK, thanks, I will take a look
Oh shit I had no idea Newpipe Sponsorblock was archived I still use it quit a bit. Any idea what happened there since the dev seemed quit active.
*edit: Also, is there a new maintained Newpipe fork with Sponsorblock integrated?
- I wasn't following it too much but I think they wanted to rewrite it. So, from the same developer is Tubular.
  https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular/releases

Why is this better than NewPipe? I much prefer apps that focus on 1 thing and dont support 20 additional services.

It's great for people who like vocaloid because you can listen to your favorite songs across yt, niconico, and even bilibili.
I know a few different people who have a few of their songs made using vocaloid and other related software on yt but the majority of their work is on one of the other platforms and pipepipe is so much more convenient than having both the niconico app and bilibili app installed.
Because newpipe is now being rewritten so no one is maintaining it and pipepipe haveany features newpipe don't .New pipe too support other services .
- Newpipe is not being rewritten. They have chosen to do progressive improvements instead:
  https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/discussions/10118?tab=readme-ov-file#discussioncomment-8180701
- I did not know NewPipe was unmaintained. I switched to Tubular. Thank you for the post!

Great recommendation I was able to import over my stuff from newpipe x Sponsorblock. Nice to get comment replies working for the first time.

Glad you are having a good experiance .

Here's its link

EDIT : it supported channel tabs before NewPipe added them and also shows comment replies.

Thx for the recommendation, this seems to be pretty great, specially to access other services like bilibili and niconico without spyware alongside youtube 🤙

Melcowe

Does it have Sponsor Block? I can't seem to find it in Settings.

Its there as the last option in settings
- Ah, looks like the fdroid repo I have on my frontend isn't the latest version.
  Going to unobtainium direct github now shows SponsorBlock. Ty.
Same author as newpipe, so no sponsorblock.
- This is not true why spread misinformation ? It does have sponsorblock .
- it says sponsorblock in the features list:
  https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe?tab=readme-ov-file
- Wait, so is newpipe abandoned?

You weren't kidding, this is a fantastic replacement. Cheers for the rec.

Cheers mate .

Just installed it. Seems pretty slick. Haven't tried the import from youtube yet though

I thought tubular was the newpipe continuum?

- Tries this one, nice, tubular has done loading issues

Has anyone tried LibreTube (F-Droid link)? It uses the Piped API, which is an alternative YouTube frontend.

Recommended 💯

I'm using pipepipe and libretube,newpipe can't view the live recordings on some content which is a shame but I think if libretube is more recommendable.

@slsemmt @THEDAEMON I've used libretube and was very useful. But now the app won't work and I've tried to reinstall and then the phone doesn't allow me. So now I've moved to pipepie. I think the phone manufacturer doesn't like it. I'm using pixel 6a.
- It's too bad that the limited available alternatives themselves aren't available.

@THEDAEMON I'm using it now. Found it recently.

Cheers

Yeah it was initially built for anime fans . Even though i barely watch animes (the only real japanise made animes i have ever watched are One punch man and death note ) i still think it is a really good fork . And nowadays it seems they are not forking from newpipe anymore .
What makes it special for anime?
- It has some anime streaming sites attatched along eith youtube if i am right. Which i don't think i am .

Are you sure you are not watching "horizonatally spinning rat"? /s
I have no idea . Can you give any more detailes.

What is the api URL to get sponsor block working? I've tried like 4 different ones based on the docs, but can't figure it out.

After I enabled Sponsorblock it took a couple of days for it to actually start working for some reason. But the default one (https://sponsor.ajay.app/api/)should work eventually.
NewPipe x SponsorBlock uses this as default.
GL.
- P.S. for anyone that want to install NPxSB, install their new app Tubular instead.
- Thanks. I was just leaving out the / after /api.
Sadly i don't use sponser block .

Thanks for sharing!

No problem .

How does it compare to libretube?

Better , except it's not piped like libretube if you are aldready running a vpn then there is no issue (if you even want that kind of privacy of course) .

Revanced tho

Revaced isn't open dource it mostly uses youtube app which is propeitery.