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NewTube

 Built on SmartTube. Made for your phone.

SmartTube for phones, unofficial: a YouTube client for Android phones and tablets, built on
SmartTube by @yuliskov.
Sign in with a code, keep it playing in the background, save videos for offline,
and cast to SmartTube on your TV.







Website · Download · Features · How sign-in works · FAQ · Translate · Credits







 [!NOTE]
 NewTube is SmartTube's work underneath. The engine that talks to YouTube, the account
 sign-in and the SponsorBlock, DeArrow and Return YouTube Dislike integrations all come from
 SmartTube. NewTube adds a touch interface, its own
 player and offline saving. It is an independent project, not endorsed by SmartTube's developer.
 NewTube takes no donations: if you find it useful, support SmartTube.

 Features





 Your account, in seconds
Sign in once with a code and your subscriptions, history, playlists, Watch later and
recommendations load from your account. It doesn't need microG, GmsCore, root or a patched app.
Signing in is optional; signed out, YouTube still personalises Home from what you watch.




 Keeps playing
Background playback with the screen off, picture-in-picture, and a mini-player you can
drag down while you keep browsing. Lock-screen and headset controls work too.






 Save for offline
Pick a quality up to 1080p, or keep only the audio. Saved videos play in the same player
with no connection, and they show up in your gallery.




 Measured speed
The first screen appears in about 0.24 s, and a related video shows its first frame about half
a second after you tap it (Pixel 9 medians). The interface is plain Material Design,
in light or dark.






 Less noise
SponsorBlock skips sponsor segments, DeArrow swaps clickbait titles and thumbnails,
and Return YouTube Dislike shows estimated dislike counts. There are no Shorts.




 Works with SmartTube on your TV
Pair with SmartTube on the TV using its Remote control code. You can also play straight to a
Chromecast from the phone (no live streams or subtitles in that mode), or use the TV's own
YouTube app.






Everything else

- Up to 4K where the video and the phone allow (1080p by default), with codec choice
- Subtitles, including auto-translated tracks, and caption style and size
- Playback speed from 0.25x to 2x, plus finer steps
- Playlists: Play all, Shuffle, Save to playlist, New playlist, a queue with "Playing from…"
- Several accounts, with a switcher, or none at all
- Picture-in-picture on Android 8 and later
- Swipe gestures: up into fullscreen, down out of it, brightness and volume on the sides, sideways to seek
- Settings in short pages, with a search
- Read and write comments, live chat; chapters and dubbed audio tracks
- Playback that waits out tunnels and dead zones and resumes where it stopped
- English and Spanish










 Download



| Your device | File |
|:--|:--|
| Almost every phone from the last ~8 years | NewTube__arm64-v8a.apk |
| Older 32-bit phones | NewTube__armeabi-v7a.apk |

Top issues

Latest release

Unofficial YouTube client for Android phones and tablets, built on SmartTube by @yuliskov.

 What's new

- A video decoder that fails to start no longer lowers your quality for good. NewTube used to recover by switching to 1080p AVC and saving it as your format, so every later video stayed capped. Now the fallback only applies to the video that failed. Thanks to SmartTube's fix (6326).

 Download

| Phone | File |
| --- | --- |
| Most phones | NewTube_1.17.1_arm64-v8a.apk |
| Older 32-bit phones | NewTube_1.17.1_armeabi-v7a.apk |
| Not sure | NewTube_1.17.1_universal.apk |
| Older x86 devices