/SkyTube

An open-source YouTube app for Android.

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SkyTube

An open-source YouTube player for the Android operating system.

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Features

Innovative Features

  • Video blocker which includes the following features [New!]:
    • Channel blacklisting; [New!]
    • Channel whitelisting; [New!]
    • Block videos if their language is not the same as the user's preferred one(s); [New!]
    • Low views video blocking; [New!]
    • High dislikes video blocking; [New!]
    • Icon in the toolbar displaying how many videos were blocked [New!]
  • Videos watched or partially watched are marked accordingly. Resume playing feature also implemented. [New!],
  • Video swipe controls, including volume, brightness, comments and video description controls. [New!],
  • Bookmark videos,
  • Import subscriptions from YouTube,
  • Play channels' playlists
  • Download videos
  • View and download video thumbnails.

Traditional Features

  • Explore Featured and Most Popular videos,
  • Browse YouTube channels,
  • Play YouTube videos,
  • View video comments,
  • Search videos, music and channels,
  • Channel subscription & non-intrusive notifications,
  • Subscriptions feed.

More features will be added in the near future.

Download

Feature SkyTube Extra SkyTube
Description Contains extra features that are powered by non-OSS libraries. Fully open-source and free software.
GPLv3 license
Official YouTube player support*
Updates availability Immediate Normally up to 5 days
Download APK Download SkyTube Extra APK Download SkyTube (Vanilla) APK

* powered by a closed-source, third party library.

Why SkyTube?

  • Free and Open Source
  • Innovative design
  • No intrusive ads
  • Multilingual
  • Not dependent on the GAPPS/Google Apps (i.e. YouTube official app)
  • No need for Google/YouTube account to operate
  • My code does not spy on your behaviour!

Screenshots

Mobile

Subscriptions Video Blocker

Play video Browse channel

Tablet

Browse channel using tablet

Contribute

This project was possible with the support and contribution of numerous volunteers and third-party projects.

Help us improve this project by translating or by coding!

License

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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation (version 3 of the License).

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

This project is not affiliated with YouTube™ or any of its partners and/or products. YouTube™ and Android™ are registered trademarks of Google Inc.