Seal vs NewPipe

Seal

🦭 Video/Audio Downloader for Android, based on yt-dlp, designed with Material You (by JunkFood02)

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NewPipe

A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock functionality. (by polymorphicshade)

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Seal		NewPipe
	Project
127	Mentions	429
7,548	Stars	3,330
-	Growth	-
9.5	Activity	8.8
7 days ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
Kotlin	Language	Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Seal

Posts with mentions or reviews of Seal. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-22.

NewPipe v0.26.0 Released
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2023

Don't know about Ymusic as it doesn't seem open source, but seal [0] seems like a good alternative, based on yt-dl
0: https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal
Best music downloader
1 project | /r/apps | 7 Dec 2023

Seal- download anything.
How to download songs on YouTube Music
1 project | /r/revancedapp | 7 Dec 2023

Install Seal → Open YT Music → Tap on the 3 dots → Share → Select the Seal app
What is drc file?
1 project | /r/youtubedl | 6 Dec 2023

https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal/issues
What is the best Youtube to MP3 converter?
2 projects | /r/AskReddit | 6 Dec 2023

Seal for Android
Top 10 Android Apps in 2013 (not available on the Google Play Store)
13 projects | /r/androidapps | 5 Dec 2023

https://github.com/deniscerri/ytdlnis & https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal Downloader for YT, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and so on
Best Android Apps that you should definitely try!
22 projects | /r/androidapps | 24 Oct 2023

Seal - open source video/audio downloader
Invidious – An open source alternative front-end to YouTube
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2023

On Android, you can use Seal[1] to download YT videos locally. It also supports many other sites.
[1] https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal
Download feature on YouTube revanced extended
5 projects | /r/revancedextended | 11 Jul 2023

There are also other ones like Powertube, Seal, Tubemate, SpotiFlyer(for music). Use whichever one you like.
Downloading issues revanced
3 projects | /r/AfterVanced | 4 Jul 2023

If you want to use a downloader other than NewPipe, (such as Seal or YTDLnis you need to set it up in YT ReVanced

NewPipe

Posts with mentions or reviews of NewPipe. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-22.

Fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock Functionality
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2023
NewPipe v0.26.0 Released
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2023
NewPipe – The lightweight YouTube experience for Android
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2023
best way to work around youtube's adblock ban?
5 projects | /r/Adblock | 30 Sep 2023
YouTube resolution question (Moto G52)
2 projects | /r/MotoG | 12 Aug 2023
As Apps que consideram indispensáveis
17 projects | /r/CasualPT | 23 Jun 2023

NewPipe x SponsorBlock
I hate my youtube recommendations; any solution?
13 projects | /r/selfhosted | 21 Jun 2023

YouTube alternative clients (apps): - NewPipe - Alternative Android YouTube app. No account needed, privacy respecting, no ads. - NewPipe x Sponsorblock - NewPipe fork that incorporates Sponsorblock. - SkyTube - Alternative Android YouTube app. No account needed, privacy respecting, no ads. - FreeTube - FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. (Uses Local RSS API or Invidious for backend). - LibreTube - An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android using Piped. - Yattee - Alternative YouTube frontend for iOS, tvOS and macOS built with Invidious and Piped. - Clipious Invidious client for android
LemReader anytime soon?
1 project | /r/RedReader | 16 Jun 2023
I'm new to New Pipe App. What are your favorite features?
1 project | /r/Piracy | 7 Jun 2023
Is Newpipe x Sponsorblock safe? Why does Google link to a Github user that then links to another Github user?
4 projects | /r/NewPipe | 6 Jun 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Seal and NewPipe you can also consider the following projects:

ytdlnis - Android Video/Audio Downloader app using yt-dlp

SkyTube - Copylefted libre / open source YouTube player for Android

NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

SponsorBlock - Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)

PowerTube - PowerTube - Youtube-dl client for Android

LibreTube - An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android.

NewPipe-legacy - NewPipe with support for older devices

Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass - A simple browser extension to bypass YouTube's age verification, disable content warnings and watch age restricted videos without having to sign in!

HElib - HElib is an open-source software library that implements homomorphic encryption. It supports the BGV scheme with bootstrapping and the Approximate Number CKKS scheme. HElib also includes optimizations for efficient homomorphic evaluation, focusing on effective use of ciphertext packing techniques and on the Gentry-Halevi-Smart optimizations.

PipePipe - A FLOSS Android app to let you browse YouTube, NicoNico and BiliBili freely. Better NewPipe.

VancedMicroG - MicroG tweaked to work for applications such as Vanced.

SmartTube - SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tvs running Android OS