NewPipe is an excellent YouTube client which is characterized by downloading videos from the same app, playing in the background and another series of functions that will make it your favorite from today.
The team in charge of its development maintains that the objective has been to provide an app that offers the YouTube experience, but giving those options that we do not see in the official as is the background playback unless we pay for it on YouTube Premium. Of course, we do not have it available in the Play Store, so we will pull the apk.
The main virtues: you don't need a YouTube account
We already have Vanced to be able to enjoy identical characteristics, although it is true that it differs in that we do not need install another apk to "log in" with the account. In fact, what makes NewPipe so characteristic is that it does not use Google's framework libraries or YouTube's API. That is, the websites are "tracked" to collect the necessary information so that the app can be used on devices without Google services (hello to the owners of the latest Huawei phones).
In other words, we talk about what you won't need a YouTube account to use NewPipe and that it is in itself a free software. This is its greatest value and that means that you can also create favorite lists and more so as not to lose the same experience that having a YouTube account gives.
For what already to first it is a temptation to use this app to be able to enjoy your experience. It is true that to be able to listen in the background we will have to click on the button that we have in the player, and perhaps this be a handicap compared to Vanced. But you will be able to put several videos in a queue to play in the background and thus leave your mobile playing as if it were the same radio while you leave it before sleeping.
NewPipe geared towards privacy and its best features
We summarize its best features as follows:
- Download video and audio from the same player and put a title
- Oriented towards privacy without Google APIs
- Play in the background
- Player in PIP
- Export and import local subscriptions
- Create playlists
- Open a video on Kodi
- A lightweight app
As we said, you are going to have to download NewPipe from the Github repository (here you have the official repository app) or download F-Droid, an alternative market for open source apps, to install it. Anyway, every time a new update arrives, a window pops up warning of it.
Fiddling with NewPipe
Many of us use the YouTube account to access subscriptions and what is the history. Here we pass the subscriptions to local. In fact, the app allows us to "collect" subscriptions by generating a URL from the web to thus «capture» the ones we have in our YouTube account and pass them to NewPipe.
This way we will have access to all subscriptions and from today you will have them locally. Do not forget export them every time you change mobile or do a factory reset. Ready about the subscriptions, we comment on another of its virtues: the downloads.
We can access a mini window that allows us to change the quality of the download as well as choosing if we want to do it in video or in audio. The truth is that NewPipe stands out a lot here. Not only for this reason but because we can create Spotify-style playlists and play them in the background, although we have to put them on a queing list.
How to download the new apk of NewPipe
- One way is through F-Droid and the other is via Github:
Download - Github
- You have the list of all the latest versions. The first one you find is the last one.
- You must extend the option «Assets»
- The latest version in apk appears to press the link and start the download.
Today NewPipe has been updated to a new version that brings with it the feed groups to identify them by categories such as music, soundtracks, etc.
In short, a great client for YouTube and that it will give you more freedom at all levels. For those of you who have a Huawei mobile without Google Play services, it is essential and will give wings to the experience.
