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TLDR: NewPipe v0.28.7 will stop supporting Android 5 because of some libraries that became incompatible with it; the NewPipe team recently e-met to welcome two contractors and discuss future endeavors. Coinciding with this blogpost, we released a new update to NewPipe (v0.28.6), where we introduced a pop up on Android 5.0 and 5.1 notifying those users that NewPipe will stop being available on thei...

Team NewPipe, in cooperation with NewPipe e. V. , proudly announces a new Google Developer Discount Program for our beloved NewPipe Community! With our referral affiliate links, you can get a free one-year Google developer account and a permanent 30% discount on your subscription! Read on to learn more about this new opportunity! TL;DR: visit NewPipe e. V.'s  special website  to claim yo...

As you have no doubt noticed, we have a banner with an ominous countdown now prominent on our website: Google will lock-down Android, and we need to raise awareness. Coinciding with this blog posts, we released a new update to NewPipe, where we introduced a pop up also notifying users there that they will need to take steps in order to keep using NewPipe. About Google This is not a fun blog post t...

We’re happy to announce NewPipe 0.28.1, which polishes the user experience while quietly fixing a large number of long-standing bugs. This release comes with a new version of NewPipe Extractor (0.25.0) that fixes several issues with data extraction while also providing additional data to the app. We wanted to bring you a big Christmas release, but it turned out to be more of a New Year’s gift inst...

Guess what? NewPipe just turned 10 this month last month! Time just flew by. In one moment you hit “new project”, and in the next there is a whole association, a group of maintainers, an uncountable amount of contributors, and millions of users! 1 This is amazing. Last time we wrote about an important birthday, NewPipe had just turned five years old. Now it’s yet another five years later, and we s...

A few TeamNewPipe members attended FrOSCon on 16–17 of August 2025, read about our experience here! Also, let us know if you’re interested in getting paid for working on NewPipe and its infrastructure. Day 0 NewPipe running on the car Did you know that NewPipe’s first line of code was written in Ansbach? By coincidence, on our way to FrOSCon, our team members @fynngodau , @TheAssassin and @Stypox...

This version brings support for Android Auto integration and allows you to add feed groups as a tab on the main page. Multiple improvements and fixes to the YouTube and SoundCloud implementations were made, and progress on the refactor continues steadily. Oh, and you can meet the team at FrOSCon! Highlights Android Auto integration Thanks to the joint effort of many contributors and a lot of patie...

TLDR: NewPipe 0.27.6 fixes the YouTube issues by performing the integrity checks now required by Google; NewPipe is being refactored heavily on the refactor branch and you can help and provide feedback on a nightly version; NewPipe will soon have a new completely rewritten player; the NewPipe team is struggling to keep up with the project’s demands due to dwindling free time of its members. Hello...

TLDR: the NewPipe e. V. will pay Schabi to work on NewPipe during the summer of 2024. He is tasked with rewriting the player, as part of the refactoring process announced a year ago. For those of you who do not know, Schabi ( @theScrabi on GitHub) is the creator and first maintainer of NewPipe. After laying the project’s foundations and reviewing contributions for a few years, he found himself out...

As the year comes to a close, it’s an opportune moment to reflect on the journey of NewPipe over the past year and to cast a glance toward the project’s future. NewPipe in 2023 In 2023, NewPipe received only a few, but nevertheless meaningful updates, bringing practical enhancements to the user interface and other parts of the app. Users can now enjoy a new card view mode featuring full-width thum...

We cannot believe it either - a new update bringing channel tabs, next to lots of features and fixes, AND we have the blog post out in time? To find out more about this crazy era we live in, read on! Here’s the mega release you have all been waiting for. So have we. So has the universe. One day, several years from now, an alien civilisation might capture a strong electromagnetic signal and set the...

Hey look! We were only lagging a couple months behind the app this time, not a whole release cycle! That’s progress! Look at us! :D Welcome, everyone, to our brand new style of blog posts. We hope you’ll enjoy reading these much more than before. We’ve seriously trimmed down the content, reshuffled some sections and cleaned up others, which will hopefully make the whole thing look and read better....

Dear fellow NewPipers, The money that had been accumulating on NewPipe’s Bountysource account is no longer accessible to me (Schabi). As a result, the project has lost about €6,400 worth of awarded bounties. Background Bountysource is a website which acts as a platform for the placement of bounties for open source development. People can use it to post bounties to fix certain issues or develop cer...

Update 13th July: The DMCA notice was rescinded with no further comment. Our landing page appears to be listed in Google's search results again. Dear NewPipe community and other beloved creatures, You might have already noticed this: Searching “NewPipe” via Google will yield plenty information about the project, but a link to the official website is missing. This is because Google submitted to a D...

Well well well. Look at us getting a new release out. We have not really done this in a while, have we? Let’s see if we’ve still got it. *one month later* Damn it, we certainly didn’t have it in us to get this blog post out in time. Thanks to @Opusforlife , it did materialize after all, instead of ending up in blog post purgatory. But for now, first blog post of 2023, so we get to say happy new ye...

So, YouTube channel videos up and vanished, and even refreshing the feed didn’t get them back. That’s never a good sign, so we went looking for them and found the slippery little things. Make sure you tie them properly to the fence next time. Put the bell icon around their necks. Might help, or so we’ve heard from several popular YouTubers ad nauseam. This release is quite interesting, because we...

Hey peeps. We’re dropping support for Android KitKat, and bumping the minimum supported version to Lollipop, as was announced on the repo months ago. It’s quite sad that we had to do this, as we fondly remember KitKat as being one of the best Android releases, but it was either this, or continuing to use an unpatched library (one which is used to access the Internet, as well!), exposing our users...

Yeah yeah, we get it. You don’t need to scream yourself hoarse. This release is just as late as the previous one. But we have great news! Playing videos will now be smooth again! Why we are so late again, you ask? It’s because every team member has several Dalmations to care for. In fact, as a whole, that makes a hundred of them. You can show your appreciation by sending trucks filled with dog tre...

The gist: NewPipe-Legacy isn’t maintained anymore (since January 2021, actually). The team is hoping for a developer to step up and become a permanent maintainer for the Legacy version. This means that you, the user, either need to switch to a device with a newer OS so that you can use NewPipe, or to an alternative app that supports your Android version. At least for the time being. Regarding: use...

This release got delayed by quite a bit, and so it just grew and grew and grew. You’re getting a truly massive release to make up for the long wait. Be ready for a whopper of a blog post! Wow. Where do we even start? Let’s see… new stream notifications! Now your phone can ping you even more frequently than before! Seamless transition to and from background! Now there is no pause in the audio when...

Why is there a new release only six days after the previous one? Well, don’t expect anything big… just a few adjustments to the previous version and some long-awaited bugfixes for lists! That’s what you would expect from a point release, according to semantic versioning , but we have never been that good at choosing release numbers. Sorry about that. Before starting with the changelog, let us dedi...

Oh wow, would you look at the time! Happy new year from the NewPipe team! We are “starting 2022 off” with some great additions: YouTube-like rewind/fast-forward, pinned comments, and searchable preferences! Apart from these, we have a bucket-load of fixes and improvements that will hopefully make your NewPipe experience better than ever. This blog post is dedicated to the master meister @litetex ....

Hello, did you order a hot fix update? Because we have one here, it is steaming and ready. YouTube broke. We are very sorry about this, but YouTube changed a parameter in their video player decryption and the code we created to decrypt the input from YouTube broke. @AbduAmeen created a fix together with @SebastianSong , and @TobiGr worked with them to get it merged in the Extractor. Thanks to all...

This release has been baking for quite a while, hasn’t it? We’ve all been busy with real life, and the world moved on in the meantime. So this release brings you both several new features and some much needed bug fi - “SORRY, SOMETHING WENT WRONG” - xes, excuse us, such as for YouTube’s removal of dislikes, which caused a snackbar error on every YouTube video, and for PeerTube’s new short URLs, wh...

Uhm yeah… we’d like to check something, but Android did not allow us to do so, but now it does! Time for a quick fix! Edit: Make that 2 quick fixes. Long time, no see. Well, not today. A nasty little bug slipped through our testing process. Two misplaced lines of code barred some users from using NewPipe. Their purpose is to start the check for new NewPipe versions. We changed how the check was ex...