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No more unsynced videos! This release will let your videos make sense and improve searching in NewPipe to make it more reliable and widespread. But that’s by far not the only change. Got your attention? Read on to see what else has been changed. Additions You can now add a playlist directly to your main page as a tab, a great change for those who frequently use NewPipe for music. @Royosef in #3506...

Team NewPipe proudly announces a self-hosted F-Droid repository, providing the official NewPipe app as well as – in the future – NewPipe Legacy. The F-Droid repository is a convenient way for users to update more quickly, which is especially useful whenever one of the supported services break. How to add the repository to F-Droid Instead of telling you the boring story behind the repository, let’s...

Keep on streaming with a fresh update to NewPipe. This one comes with a lot of bug fixes, improvements and more features. This also fixes an error when trying to watch YouTube videos. Testers needed We need testers for new versions of NewPipe! If you have a KitKat, Android TV, or “battery optimized” device, please add yourself to the relevant section of the testers wiki page and you will be mentio...

Another day in quarantine, another release of NewPipe. This one comes with a lot of bug fixes, improvements and more features. It can not get better then that. Android TV “Hey, release-post guy,” I hear you say, “I can already run NewPipe on my Android TV, what is the difference now?” Well, now you can actually use it. You can scroll through long video descriptions, can focus what element you want...

As announced in our last post , we planned to release another update this week. Unlike the April fools’ blog post suggested, this update will not remove YouTube and SoundCloud support, but bring further improvements and fixes: the navigation sidebar received a small design update and two bugs were fixed. Navigation sidebar @mauriciocolli once again brought improvements to NewPipe. This time, the n...

The NewPipe project has been informed about privacy concerns with regards to the integration of proprietary services YouTube and SoundCloud. Therefore, until further notice, we decided to remove these from the project. A hotfix release, 0.19.2, is being prepared and planned to be published tomorrow. Please beware that the following text was part of this year’s April’s fools joke. Please see @TheAs...

Argh. We wanted to make the last release perfect. This worked out well - almost. In this release a rare database migration issue was fixed. With NewPipe 0.19.0 @mauriciocolli introduced grouped channels and multiple feeds. This needed some major changes to the app database. Shortly after NewPipe 0.19.0 was released, we got a report telling us that NewPipe refused to start. It turned out that under...

A new day, a new full release. In today’s update, NewPipe is proudly bringing you a mute button and a great way to manage your subscribed channels, on top of the usual smaller improvements and fixes. Feed groups Since moving images say more than my words, please have a look at them: For those who prefer to read, this is for you: NewPipe now supports grouping subscribed channels into feeds. All the...

Yes, this is another hotfix release. Can’t stop us now. In this version, SoundCloud gets fixed. Why? Up until this release, NewPipe was using an subdomain to get the data from SoundCloud called api . This way of accessing SoundCloud’s API was not working consistently anymore for all users, so the developers decided to switch to api-v2 . While that sounds and is a change under the hood of NewPipe,...

Have you fully read the last blog post and remember the first paragraph in the Whats New section? Do you not and you can’t care less? Well, I don’t care either, I have a story for both of you… Another release??? Yes, another release. The developers told me they are deeply sorry. And now it is on me to try to explain why you have to update (and I have to write a blogpost…) again. The build four day...

Do you remember the last releases we titled hotfix? Do you want to know what is different this time? Yes? Come closer, and let me tell you a story about 0.18.5. Background Once upon a time ( August 2017 ), YouTube decided to launch a redesign of their website. They applied Material Design and a dark theme. Just with any other website (I am looking at you reddit), the backslash of the community exi...

It is here, really. Folks, a new minor release of NewPipe: 0.18.4! Bringing you copy-able comments, a kodi-share button, a language selector(!) and many improvements/fixes. Language selector Yes, you did not misread that part. Finally, there is the possibility for you to select the language NewPipe runs in. You can access this setting via Settings > Content > App language . Your selected lan...

A change on SoundCloud side made it necessary to make some edits to the SoundCloud Extractor, so a new update for NewPipe is here! Since this is a hotfix release, it does not contain any new feature or bugfix, except for the SoundCloud Extractor fixup. If you see any Guru Mediation error in the app, please update to 0.18.3 before you create an issue (you can verify if you actually have 0.18.3+ ins...

8 days after the last release and the next one is already out: A hotfix for the Extractor! A change on YouTube’s side made it necessary. Hotfix A hotfix release regarding the Extractor usually means that all the older versions of NewPipe are likely to fail to play YouTube videos - this release is no difference. If you see any Guru Mediation error in the app, please update to this version before yo...

Happy new year! Behold, the first release of 2020, NewPipe 0.18.1. This version, as you probably already guessed from the patch digit increase, focuses mainly on bug fixes and improvements. That being said, there is a fancy new feature for you: Video thumbnails on the lock screen. Video thumbnails on lock screen Thanks to the work of @K1rakishou , every user with Android 5.0+ can enjoy a fitting l...

Santa came a little late this year and dropped NewPipe 0.18.0! In this new version support for PeerTube has been added and many improvements to the downloader were made. Additionally many bugs have been fixed and a couple of cool improvements allow an even smoother usage. support @yausername put much effort into adding a fourth service to NewPipe: PeerTube. In case you do not know PeerTube, one ca...

You might have wondered why there haven’t been any release announcements since 0.16.2. Unfortunately, writing these blog posts can consume a lot of time which our developers often think is better invested in writing new features or fixing bugs. However, you, the users, should have the chance to track all the changes made from release to release in such summaries, and we apologize for having had le...

Team NewPipe lost some of your donations through a Bitcoin scam. The founder of NewPipe, Christian Schabesberger, explains the details of the attack in an open letter to the community. Dear NewPipe users/developer/maintainer, Earlier this year, on 26 June 2019, I fell victim to a bitcoin scam. Unfortunately, we, the team, lost all the donated bitcoins we had received until that date. My intention...

NewPipe 0.16.2 is a bugfix release which comes along with better readable comments, smaller UX improvements, better translations, bugfixes and more. Comments After introducing support for reading comments in version 0.16.1 , @yausername put more effort into the comments UX. In other words, the comment’s font size has been enlarged. We hope you are going to enjoy reading comments even more. When sc...

Christian “theScrabi” Schabesberger , primary maintainer of NewPipe and the related projects, didn’t get to giving a talk during a conference this year, so he asked Team NewPipe for help. In the video, Christian covers the latest developments of the project, talks about plans for the future and makes a personal statement. We recorded and cut a video of the talk, and just published it on media.assa...

Team NewPipe has found a new partner. We’re very enthusiastic about the awesome deal we negotiated with them. Read on for more information! Please beware that the following text was part of this year’s April’s fools joke. Please see @TheAssassin’s reply in the comments for more details on the context of this joke. Team NewPipe is proud to announce our new partnership with a well-known tech brand w...

We are happy to release NewPipe 0.16.0 bringing support for reading top-level YouTube comments. Moreover, with media.ccc.de NewPipe supports three services now! Comment support @yausername implemented one of the most requested features: support for reading comments! From now on, NewPipe can display comments underneath the video description. At the moment comment support is limited to reading top-l...

After having had to publish 0.15.0 a bit earlier than we wanted to due to YouTube breaking their site again, we’re happy to announce the release of the bugfix release 0.15.1. Update notification @krtkush implemented an important part of making NewPipe more bug hardened. He implemented notifications for app updates which inform users of the GitHub build about new versions available on GitHub. @theS...

We are happy to release NewPipe 0.15.0. This new version brings a completely refactored download mechanism. Please note that starting with 0.15.0, NewPipe dropped support for Android JellyBean (4.3) and older. As always, this release includes several smaller improvements and fixes. Everybody is encouraged to update NewPipe because all prior versions do not work anymore . The update is necessary be...

We have just released NewPipe 0.14.2. Just like NewPipe 0.14.0 this version mostly brings UI and UX improvements including new layouts for tablets and an additional linear layout in “Downloads”. Furthermore, Android 9 support was added and the subscriptions page received a small upgrade. Also, several bugs were fixed and new translations were added. New tablet UI @nv95 brings a completely new feel...