litube
Lightweight Android app offering YouTube video access with support for background playback, sponsor ad and video ad blocking, direct downloads of videos, audio or thumbnails, playback progress memory, hiding Shorts, dislike counts, and minimal battery impact.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- F-Droid
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- No registration required
- Ad-free
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- MP3 Downloader
- YouTube Downloader
Tags
- hide-youtube-shorts
litube News & Activities
Recent activities
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- LinuxCommander reviewed litube
Instead of using Brave or Vivaldi or Firefox with adblocker , this android program is a single instance, super compact single tab web browser of sorts that wraps around youtube.com . Includes ad blocking . No sponsor block.
Benefits are that you don't have to launch an entire web browser to utilize YouTube.com
It only goes to youtube.com automatically . It wraps around youtube.com so you still have to log into your account on YouTube . You don't log into the app, your login into youtube.com...
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justarandom added litube as alternative to TizenTube Cobalt
litube information
Developed by
HydeYYHHLicensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Alternatives
51 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Categories
Video & Movies, Audio & MusicGitHub repository
- 268 Stars
- 11 Forks
- 62 Open Issues
- Updated
What is litube?
Lightweight Android WebView wrapper for YouTube, offering many additional features such as ads blocking, background play, video download and playback progress memory.
- Features
• Ad blocking, including sponsor ads and video ads. • Video download, supports downloading videos, audio-only, and saving thumbnails. • Background play. • Display video dislike count. • Hide shorts, etc.
It is highly recommended to ignore battery optimization and allow background activity for this app to prevent it from being mistakenly killed by the system.
Comments and Reviews
Instead of using Brave or Vivaldi or Firefox with adblocker , this android program is a single instance, super compact single tab web browser of sorts that wraps around youtube.com . Includes ad blocking . No sponsor block.
Benefits are that you don't have to launch an entire web browser to utilize YouTube.com
It only goes to youtube.com automatically . It wraps around youtube.com so you still have to log into your account on YouTube . You don't log into the app, your login into youtube.com through or via the app as it's basically just a browser .
Other YouTube apps are for and you have to export your subscriptions and then import them into the YouTube client. Those other apps are fine if you have maybe 50 subscriptions . But I have over 600 descriptions so refreshing those types of apps to see if there's any new things to watch can take a few minutes . The program I am reviewing here is accessing the Litube browser and the refreshing takes place on youtube.com servers so refreshing of new episodes only takes one second .
You can side load this app over on fdroid or Droidify or manually through GitHub .