NewPipe is a libre Android app for streaming content from YouTube, SoundCloud, PeerTube, Bandcamp, and media.ccc.de without Google Play Services, accounts, or ads. It stores subscriptions and playlists locally and is available on F-Droid.
NewPipe
Official website newpipe.net
Our take
NewPipe earns its place as the go-to Android streaming client for de-Googled phones: it runs on custom ROMs with no Google apps, requires no account, and keeps all your data local. The multi-service support, covering SoundCloud, PeerTube, and Bandcamp alongside YouTube, makes it uniquely versatile. The catch to be honest about is that it parses YouTube directly, so aggressive upstream changes can temporarily break extraction until the team patches it. Skip it if you want cross-device sync or a polished Material You interface; that is what LibreTube optimizes for instead.
GitHub at a glance
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
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License
GPL-3.0
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NewPipe license, in plain English
GPL-3.0 Strong copyleft
Free to use and modify, but anything you distribute that is built on it must also be open under the same license.
Permits
- Commercial use
- Modification
- Distribution
- Patent use
- Private use
Requires
- Disclose source
- Same license
- State changes
- License and copyright notice
Does not provide
- Liability cover
- Warranty
Why it matters: Strong copyleft keeps every distributed version open. A vendor cannot fold this into a closed product and ship it without releasing their changes.
Plain-language summary of the project's license, not legal advice. Read the full text for the exact terms.