I love NewPipe! Especially for downloading kids videos for plane rides. Thanks for writing it!

It's great at playing videos and downloading videos. But don't expect it to play your downloaded videos, because who would ever want to do that?

Gallery for one-offs,

VLC or similar if you’re serious.

Scope is important to quality.

VLC desktop application is great, but the mobile one has pretty bad performance issues. I can play at a much faster speed inside NewPipe than I can in VLC.

I haven't heard of Scope; is it the one from YuppTV that you recommend?

Scope of purpose of a codebase.

Why not yt-dlp for downloading?

Not grandfather commenter... but why yt-dlp? NewPipe is a one-stop-shop for your mobile device, yt-dlp means searching for the video on the browser and copying the URL, running yt-dlp on the computer and then transferring the downloaded video onto your phone...

With NewPipe you can be at the airport waiting for your flight, do it all on the device, and then hand it over to your kid (I'll leave out the commentary on using video to babysit them...)

Right. I guess where we differ is that I actively try to avoid spending time on my mobile. I have never watched a YouTube video on my phone in my entire life, and won't.

Any other character traits you are proud of and would like to tell us about?

This is the contemporary equivalent of people that bragged they don’t watch TV in the 2000s.

I'm not the person you asked, but I like it because: Easier to initiate downloads from mobile, got a nice ui for quality selection, can import subscriptions, keeps a download log that makes it easy to play recent download

It's subscription lists that do it for me. Such an improvement.

This is exactly what we use it for

NewPipe is amazing and used it for years and donated money but recently I switched to Tubular which has SponsorBlock and that is incredible.

Sponsorblock is such a great inbuilt feature to make youtube useable, and kudos to the dev who empowered millions by writing it

Edit: sorry I'm writing about PipePipe

NewPipe does not have Sponsorblock built in tho. I am sure you are aware but other people might not. Tubular https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular is a newpipe fork which integrates Sponsorblock and youtube dislike.

PipePipe (https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe) is better than Tubular, it has much more frequent updates and more features.

My dog loves NewPipe! It makes YT podcasts and talk shows great again, keeping its best friend happy during long walks.

coincidentally, I uninstalled newpipe today (after exporting its data to local storage).Not for any bad reasons, but due to it consuming most of my screen time.

Anyway, really cool app and congratulations to the countless developers, maintainers and bug-reporters that made it possible.