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

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 I was using the no longer maintained Newpipe Sponsorblock, recently switched to Tubular (rework of aforementioned).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.

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

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.

Here's its link

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

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

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

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

I thought tubular was the newpipe continuum?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Thanks for sharing!