I am looking for an alternative to the Youtube app. I heard a lot of recommendations about New Pipe but on F droid there are so many flavors. Which one to pick?

  • Successful_Try543@feddit.org
    5·
    13 hours ago

    As e.g. PipePipe and Tubular are forks of NewPipe, you need the original anyways for the meantime after issues have been fixed until these are adopted by the forks.

    • litchralee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      13 hours ago

      I’ve had the opposite experience, where NewPipe lagged behind PipePipe in terms of adapting to YouTube-related changes. It had something to do with updating the subscription feed (not that that function is totally reliable on either app).

      I also observed this strange issue with NewPipe where if a notification sound interrupts a background-playing video, the audio would stay reduced in volume until the app was brought back to the foreground. A cursory search suggested it was specific to Samsung phones, but when I switched to PipePipe, the issue simply didn’t appear.

      Grain of salt: I haven’t used NewPipe since switching in November.