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By Team NewPipe • Updated June 21, 2026
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This is the universal build of NewPipe (github version) 0.28.0. It contains native libraries for every CPU architecture (arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64), so it installs on any Android device. The trade-off is size — it's larger than per-architecture variants. Pick this one if you're unsure which CPU your phone has, or if you plan to share the APK with multiple devices.

File size: 11.5 MB   •   Min Android: 21   •   Target Android: 33   •   Version code: 1005   •   Framework: Native (Java/Kotlin)   •   Permissions: 9

File Information

Package Nameorg.schabi.newpipe
Version Name0.28.0
Version Code1005
ArchitectureUniversal
Min Android VersionAndroid 21 (API 33)
Main Activityorg.schabi.newpipe.MainActivity
FrameworkNative (Java/Kotlin)
File Size11.53 MB
Signature (SHA1)B02E907C1CD6FC57C335F088D08F505F94E4D215
File Hash (SHA256)06ea3bab0f56c2cac0a7c471d43e6d0107104c319abb589c894c6b0d47d60ef7

What's New

➡️ ➡️ ➡️ Read the blog post ⬅️ ⬅️ ⬅️
New
Add support for Android Auto (special thanks to
@haggaie
!)
#9592
#12044
#12416
#12410
#12412
Add feed groups as main screen tabs
#12325
[YouTube] Support new kiosks and add migration to change trending kiosk tab
#12450
[YouTube] Share as YouTube temporary playlist
#12065
[SoundCloud] Add support for likes in channel and feed
#12367
[SoundCloud] Add support for AAC 160k unprotected stream
TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1317
Improved
[Android 13+] Support per-app language preferences
#12093
#12444
#12470
ℹ️ This replaces the in-app setting of the app localization for Android 13+ devices. Your existing in-app preference will be migrated automatically to use Android's per-app language setting.
Show service name in search bar hint
#12258
Show download date in Downloads
#12117
Support RTL usernames in comment header
#12188
Disambiguate audio track labels
#12089
Fixed
Fix broken text colors in dark mode
#12035
[YouTube] Fix playlists not loading more than 100 items
TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1301
[YouTube] Fix missing recommended videos
TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1320
[YouTube] Other miscellaneous fixes, see
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/releases/tag/v0.24.7
Fix crashes in History list view (caused by buggy header)
#12214
Fix stream notification grouping when channel URLs differ
#12067
Fix duplicate menu options in
ChannelFragment
#12083
Fix timestamps not working in comment replies
#12202
Add migration to remove the now-defunct SoundCloud Top 50 kiosk
#12438
Fix UI crash instead of proper error report if search next page can't be extracted
#12408
#12455
Translation / Localization
Update translations and add 15 new locales to the in-app language chooser
#12103
#12476
Do not capitalize "page" for main page content options
#12437
Add dev and refactor nightly build badges to README
#12298
Add matrix chat link and dev/refactor nightly badges to all translated READMEs
#12302
Fix "Get it on F-Droid" appearing giant in README
#12409
Fix new badge links on README being rendered incorrectly
#12434
Development
Disable logs about view animations by default
#12043
Add new Proguard rules for Mozilla Rhino
#12104
Improve extractor Jitpack workaround comment and fix its hash in
build.gradle
file
#12256
[YouTube] Fix accessing poToken challenge data at wrong index in some cases
#12150
Update user agent to Firefox 140 ESR
#12472

App Description

We are

rewriting

large chunks of the codebase, to bring about

a modern and stable NewPipe

! You can download nightly builds

here

.

Please work on the

refactor

branch if you want to contribute

new features

. The current codebase is in maintenance mode and will only receive

bugfixes

.

NewPipe

A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

Screenshots



Supported Services



Description



Features



Installation and updates



Contribution



Donate



License

Website



Blog



FAQ



Press

Read this document in other languages:

Deutsch

,

English

,

Español

,

Français

,

हिन्दी

,

Italiano

,

한국어

,

Português Brasil

,

Polski

,

ਪੰਜਾਬੀ

,

日本語

,

Română

,

Soomaali

,

Türkçe

,

正體中文

,

অসমীয়া

,

Српски

,

العربية

Warning

THIS APP IS IN BETA, SO YOU MAY ENCOUNTER BUGS. IF YOU DO, OPEN AN ISSUE IN OUR GITHUB REPOSITORY BY FILLING OUT THE ISSUE TEMPLATE.

PUTTING NEWPIPE, OR ANY FORK OF IT, INTO THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE VIOLATES THEIR TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

Screenshots

Supported Services

NewPipe currently supports these services:

YouTube (

website

) and YouTube Music (

website

) (

wiki

)

PeerTube (

website

) and all its instances (open the website to know what that means!) (

wiki

)

Bandcamp (

website

) (

wiki

)

SoundCloud (

website

) (

wiki

)

media.ccc.de (

website

) (

wiki

)

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!

Partially due to circumstance, and partially due to its popularity, YouTube is the best supported out of these services. If you use or are familiar with any of these other services, please help us improve support for them! We're looking for maintainers for SoundCloud and PeerTube.

If you intend to add a new service, please get in touch with us first! Our

docs

provide more information on how a new service can be added to the app and to the

NewPipe Extractor

.

Description

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

Installation and updates

You can install NewPipe using one of the following methods:

Add our custom repo to F-Droid and install it from there. The instructions are here:

https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/install-add-fdroid-repo/

Download the APK from

GitHub Releases

,

compare the signing key

and install it.

Update via F-Droid. This is the slowest method of getting updates, as F-Droid must recognize changes, build the APK itself, sign it, and then push the update to users.

Build a debug APK yourself. This is the fastest way to get new features on your device, but is much more complicated, so we recommend using one of the other methods.

If you're interested in a specific feature or bugfix provided in a Pull Request in this repo, you can also download its APK from within the PR. Read the PR description for instructions. The great thing about PR-specific APKs is that they're installed side-by-side the official app, so you don't have to worry about losing your data or messing anything up.

We recommend method 1 for most users. APKs installed using method 1 or 2 are compatible with each other (meaning that if you installed NewPipe using either method 1 or 2, you can also update NewPipe using the other), but not with those installed using method 3. This is due to the same signing key (ours) being used for 1 and 2, but a different signing key (F-Droid's) being used for 3. Building a debug APK using method 4 excludes a key entirely. Signing keys help ensure that a user isn't tricked into installing a malicious update to an app. When using method 5, each APK is signed with a different random key supplied by GitHub Actions, so you cannot even update it. You will have to backup and restore the app data each time you wish to use a new APK.

In the meanwhile, if you want to switch sources for some reason (e.g. NewPipe's core functionality breaks and F-Droid doesn't have the latest update yet), we recommend following this procedure:

Back up your data via Settings > Backup and Restore > Export Database so you keep your history, subscriptions, and playlists

Uninstall NewPipe

Download the APK from the new source and install it

Import the data from step 1 via Settings > Backup and Restore > Import Database

Note

When you're importing a database into the official app, always make sure that it is the one you exported

from

the official app. If you import a database exported from an APK other than the official app, it may break things. Such an action is unsupported, and you should only do so when you're absolutely certain you know what you're doing.

APK Info

This is the SHA fingerprint of NewPipe's signing key to verify downloaded APKs which are signed by us. The fingerprint is also available on

NewPipe's website

. This is relevant for method 2.

CB:84:06:9B:D6:81:16:BA:FA:E5:EE:4E:E5:B0:8A:56:7A:A6:D8:98:40:4E:7C:B1:2F:9E:75:6D:F5:CF:5C:AB

Contribution

Whether you have ideas, translations, design changes, code cleaning, or even major code changes, help is always welcome. The app gets better and better with each contribution, no matter how big or small! If you'd like to get involved, check our

contribution notes

.

Donate

If you like NewPipe, you're welcome to send a donation. We prefer Liberapay, as it is both open-source and non-profit. For further info on donating to NewPipe, please visit our

website

.

Privacy Policy

The NewPipe project aims to provide a private, anonymous experience for using web-based media services. Therefore, the app does not collect any data without your consent. NewPipe's privacy policy explains in detail what data is sent and stored when you send a crash report, or leave a comment in our blog. You can find the document

here

.

License

NewPipe is Free Software: You can use, study, share, and improve it at will. Specifically you can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the

GNU General Public License

as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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APK Permissions 9

  • android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
  • android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE
  • android.permission.INTERNET
  • android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS
  • android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED
  • android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW
  • android.permission.WAKE_LOCK
  • android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
  • org.schabi.newpipe.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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Developer

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Frequently Asked Questions about NewPipe (github version) APK

This is the universal variant — a single APK that contains native libraries for every CPU architecture. It installs on any Android device but is larger than per-architecture variants.

Yes — the APK's signature has been cryptographically verified against the publisher's signing key. The SHA-256 hash is shown in the File Information panel so you can independently confirm the file matches the original release.

Android 21 (API level 33) or newer. Older devices will refuse the install.

Install a free app like 'CPU-Z' or 'Droid Hardware Info' from the Play Store and look at the ABI / Instruction Set row. Most phones made after 2017 are arm64-v8a; if in doubt, download the universal variant.

All variants are functionally identical — same features, same version. They differ only in which CPU architectures the native code is compiled for, and (sometimes) which screen densities the included graphics target. Pick the one that matches your device for the smallest install size, or pick 'Universal' if you're unsure.