dvd VS PowerTube

For me, the less-complicated client called "DVD" is more reliable for downloading than the client called "Newpipe"; the later stops working intermittently. YMMV.

(Neither are as reliable as using own custom command line programs on desktop, or mobile via Termux. If Google makes a change I can fix/workaround immediately. No waiting for app developers.)

For me, Newpipe works well as a Soundlcoud client.

From the Kotlin source for "dvd":

Video downloader app powered by yt-dlp (formerly youtube-dl).

Features

Download video/audio from 1000+ sites supported by yt-dlp.

Run custom yt-dlp commands.

Update yt-dlp version from settings.

Share link via other apps.

References

dvd - https://github.com/yausername/dvd

youtubedl-android - https://github.com/yausername/youtubedl-android

yt-dlp - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (formerly youtube-dl - https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl)

Check out an app called DVD. It uses yt-dlp (which it downloads and updates for you).

On android I use this app works great

For Android I use DVD

Try DVD on F-droid or you can find it on GitHub

DVD is the one I use.

There are also other ones like Powertube, Seal, Tubemate, SpotiFlyer(for music). Use whichever one you like.

To download videos you need a 3rd party downloader app installed on your device, such as PowerTube, Seal, or NewPipe. Powertube is the daefault one, so you can just install the apk file from here and then downloads should work.

For downloads to work https://github.com/razar-dev/PowerTube/raw/master/update/apk/PowerTube_release_4.4.6.apk

powertube is a blessing. cant remember where i got it from (possibly someone recomended it here) but i found this link of the github page. downloads youtube videos and videos on a bunch of other sites (yes, even nsfw sites)

PowerTube: https://github.com/razar-dev/PowerTube

1.If you enabled download music patch or whatever it's called and when you press the custom download it says "org.shibabi.newpipe is not installed please install it" Click on you're channel icon click settings then scroll down until you see "Revanced settings" then click on "interactions" then "download settings" and click on "downloader package name" then replace it to "ussr.razar.youtube_dl" and click on "ok" and then install this: https://github.com/razar-dev/PowerTube And download it.. and Ur done! When u click the custom download Icon it will download it and stor your downloads in the powertube app (or in storage in the powertube folder" where u can watch them...

You have to download and install the PowerTube app: https://github.com/razar-dev/PowerTube/releases/tag/5.0.3

PowerTube has AV1 codec support link to powertube