NewPipe

A libre, lightweight Android front end for video and audio services. The README is upfront about beta status, trademark rules, and which services actually work well.

NewPipe is a libre, lightweight streaming front end for Android, not a full client. The README links out to screenshots, supported services, features, installation, contribution, donation, and license pages, plus a website, blog, FAQ, and press section. The app is written in Java under the GPL-3.0 license, and the project homepage is newpipe.net. The framing as a front end matters: NewPipe pulls data from official APIs where possible, and falls back to parsing websites or internal APIs when the official path is restricted or proprietary, which is how it works without an account.

The opening warning is in block caps: the app is in beta, users may hit bugs, and they should open an issue using the template. There are also two firm statements. Putting NewPipe, or any fork of it, on the Google Play Store violates Play Store terms and conditions. And the NewPipe name is a registered word mark subject to its own trademark policy, so infringing applications will not be tolerated.

The supported list runs from YouTube and YouTube Music through PeerTube and all its instances, Bandcamp, SoundCloud, and media.ccc.de. The app started with YouTube, and other people have added services over the years. YouTube remains the best supported, partly by circumstance and partly by popularity. The README asks for help improving the other services and explicitly looks for maintainers for SoundCloud and PeerTube. Anyone planning to add a new service is told to get in touch first.

The README is translated into a long list of languages, including German, English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Polish, Japanese, Romanian, Turkish, Traditional Chinese, and Arabic. The project is open source, maintained by the NewPipe team, and donations are welcome, with Liberapay listed as the preferred channel.

• Source 1 · Project repository
• Source 2 · README