NewPipe vs SmartTubeNext

NewPipe

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

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SmartTubeNext

SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tv running Android OS [Moved to: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube] (by yuliskov)

Android android-tv android-tv-box Java rxjava-android Retrofit2 Kotlin

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NewPipe		SmartTubeNext
	Project
429	Mentions	1
3,330	Stars	13,884
-	Growth	-
8.8	Activity	10.0
4 months ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
Java	Language	Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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.

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

SmartTubeNext

Posts with mentions or reviews of SmartTubeNext. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Youtube Ads showing every 5 seconds, please help me!
1 project | /r/MiBox | 8 Dec 2023

I would recommend SmartTube instead of the official YouTube app, you aren't going to see any ads.

What are some alternatives?

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

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)

youtube-webos - Youtube App without ADs

LibreTube - An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android.

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!

xManager-Spotify - Ad-Free, New Features & Freedom [Moved to: https://github.com/xManager-App/xManager]

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

vanced-website-v2 - Source Code of the Vanced Website

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

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