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NewPipe SponsorBlock (Lightweight YouTube front-end) v0.28.1 [Mod]

9 hours agoLast Updated: 13/01/2026

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NewPipe SponsorBlock (Lightweight YouTube front-end) v0.28.1 [Mod]
Requirements: 5.0+
Overview: A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike functionality. The lightweight YouTube experience for Android.

A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

Do you like watching videos on YouTube but looking for a simple app to do that?
NewPipe has been created with the purpose of getting the original YouTube experience on your smartphone without annoying ads and questionable permissions.

Lightweight YouTube frontend that’s supposed to be used without the proprietary YouTube-API or any of Google’s (proprietary) play-services. NewPipe only parses the YouTube website in order to gain the information it needs.

NewPipe works by fetching the required data from the official API (e.g. PeerTube) of the service you’re using. If the official API is restricted (e.g. YouTube) for our purposes, or is proprietary, the app parses the website or uses an internal API instead. This means that you don’t need an account on any service to use NewPipe.

Also, since they are free and open source software, neither the app nor the Extractor use any proprietary libraries or frameworks, such as Google Play Services. This means you can use NewPipe on devices or custom ROMs that do not have Google apps installed.

Features
● Watch videos at resolutions up to 4K
● Listen to audio in the background, only loading the audio stream to save data
● Popup mode (floating player, aka Picture-in-Picture)
● Watch live streams
● Show/hide subtitles/closed captions
● Search videos and audios (on YouTube, you can specify the content language as well)
● Enqueue videos (and optionally save them as local playlists)
● Show/hide general information about videos (such as description and tags)
● Show/hide next/related videos
● Show/hide comments
● Search videos, audios, channels, playlists and albums
● Browse videos and audios within a channel
● Subscribe to channels (yes, without logging into any account!)
● Get notifications about new videos from channels you’re subscribed to
● Create and edit channel groups (for easier browsing and management)
● Browse video feeds generated from your channel groups
● View and search your watch history
● Search and watch playlists (these are remote playlists, which means they’re fetched from the service you’re browsing)
● Create and edit local playlists (these are created and saved within the app, and have nothing to do with any service)
● Download videos/audios/subtitles (closed captions)
● Open in Kodi
● Watch/Block age-restricted material

Supported Services
NewPipe currently supports these services:

● YouTube and YouTube Music
● PeerTube and all its instances (open the website to know what that means!)
● Bandcamp
● SoundCloud
● media.ccc.de

As you can see, NewPipe supports multiple video and audio services. Though it started off with YouTube, other people have added more services over the years, making NewPipe more and more versatile!

What’s New:
NewPipe 0.28.1 is shipped with NewPipe Extractor 0.25.0. For extraction related changes see the linked release.

New
● Support on.soundcloud link opening #12694
● Add metadata fields for OPUS audio downloads #12974

Improved
● Fix clearing queue and keep current player when clicking on timestamps #12252 #12254 #12898
● Try to recover pending download missions when possible #12550
● Add option to delete a download without also deleting file #12544
● Add enqueue option to router dialog #12821
● Add more specific error messages and deduplicate their handling #12578 #12603
● Overlay Permission: display explanatory dialog for Android > R #12253
● Notifications are no longer requested again after rotating the phone #12716
● Allow dragging boorkmarked playlist in both directions #13008

Fixed
Player
● [Player] Use original audio language by default #12931
● Remember and restore orientation on fullscreen exit #12840 #12781
● Fix ghost notifications and fix random player crashes (“startForegroundService() did not then call startForeground()”) #12606
● Fix audio language button pushing player controls off-screen in portrait and popup #12699 #12714 #12729
● Fix scaleX being NaN on minimize to background app switch #12952

Downloader
● Fix insufficient permissions on opening downloaded streams #12934
● Fix download resume corruption when server returns HTTP 200 #13014
● Fix missing subtitle text in manually downloaded *.SRT files #12575
● Fix initial numbering of frames in TTML to SRT converter #12671

Other
● Fix short count formatting for Android versions below 7.0 #12460
● Fix and simplify opening URLs in browser #12605
● Fix long-pressing Play All-button does nothing #12692
● Enforce using SAF on FireOS TVs with Android 10+ #12642
● Commit all the playlist changes to db immediately to prevent incorrect UI states #13005
● Fix incorrect UI states of PlayQueue items #12922
● Fix crash on screen rotation while entering SoundCloud import URL #12995

Translation / Localization
● Update translations #12801 #12910
● Update PR template to specify target branch for features #12811

Development
● Target SDK 35 #12388
● Correctly ignore new version check for Picasso #12483
● Update Android Gradle Plugin to 8.13.0 #12616
● Remove isUsingDSP #12676
● Switch to version catalogs, migrate Gradle files from Groovy DSL to Kotlin DSL #12706 #12765
● Migrate from KAPT to KSP #12746 #12816 #12820 #12489 #12849 #12864 #12954 #12975
● Dependency updates #12684 #12776
○ Revert Google Material Components to 1.11.0 #13018
● Deprecation fixes #12885 #12897
● Use context.getString() shorthand instead of context.getResources().getString() #12949
● Convert newpipe/util/KioskTranslator.java to kotlin #12947
● Add AI policy to contribution guidelines and PR template #12909
● Code quality improvements #12973 #12963 #12981
● workflows: Update actions versions #12986
● Kotlin migration #12978

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