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

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

Breaks way less often than FreeTube. I think there might be some lessons to learn there for the latter. One feature I wished it had: periodic background downloading of subscriptions. I use NewPipe fairly rarely, and when I do, I have to wait perhaps 90-120 seconds to download the list of latest videos. I'm pretty sure that contributes to me not using it super often, exacerbating the problem.

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.

I really like NewPipe. it's lightweight, no ads, allows downloading, allows 4K playback (on videos that support it), even allows watching streams!

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

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