Free and open source · Android 8.0+
SuperTube plays videos with no ads, skips the sponsor segments for you and gives you an interface made for your fingers on the phone and for the remote on the TV.
Blender open movies
Same engine, two interfaces: each one designed for how you hold it.
Material 3 with light and dark themes. A bottom bar on phones and a navigation rail on tablets and foldables.
File: SuperTube-1.5.0.apk
Big rows for the remote, with the cover of the video you are on filling the background.
File: SuperTubeTV_stable_1.5.0_universal.apk
Everything from the SmartTube engine, plus the things we missed on a phone.
Videos start straight away. SponsorBlock skips sponsor segments and intros, and the seek bar marks where they are.
A mini player while you browse, picture-in-picture when you leave the app, and audio with the screen off with lock-screen controls.
Save the audio or the video up to 1080p, seeing the size before you choose. Pause, resume, and Wi-Fi only if you want.
Keep videos in your own folders, play them in order or shuffled, and see them on a home-screen widget.
Sign in for your subscriptions, history and playlists. Or don't: browsing and playing work without an account.
One switch turns off background images, card previews and animations so a modest TV box stays smooth.
Real screenshots. The videos shown are Blender Studio open movies.
SuperTube has no server of its own, no analytics and no advertising code. Your settings, favorites and downloads stay on your device. Videos come straight from YouTube, so those requests are handled by Google under its own privacy policy.
Download it from this page, signed by its author. Every version is also on GitHub.
Tap “For phone and tablet” to download the APK.
Android asks once to let your browser install apps. Accept it.
No account needed. Later updates arrive from Settings › SuperTube.
On the TV, install the free Downloader app (by AFTVnews) from the app store.
Open it and type gestal.es/supertube/tv. The TV app downloads by itself.
Let Downloader install apps when Android asks. Later updates arrive from Settings › About.
Chrome and Android warn about every app installed from outside Google Play. Play Protect may also flag SuperTube because it blocks YouTube ads and isn't on Google Play, not because it contains anything harmful. The code is open on GitHub and every APK is signed by its author.
“This type of file can harm your device”
Tap Download anyway.
“Your phone isn't allowed to install unknown apps from this source”
Tap Settings, turn on Allow from this source and go back.
“Unsafe app blocked” or “Unknown app”
Tap More details, then Install anyway. On the TV, do the same with the remote.
Later it turns the app off or removes it
In the Play Store: your profile › Play Protect › settings › turn off Scan apps with Play Protect, and install it again.
To check that the APK is the original, its signing certificate (SHA-256) is: f6:fb:28:69:7f:24:d1:bf:21:ff:12:b8:20:e2:64:ca:4a:94:2f:3e:e8:4c:75:f2:01:6d:eb:3c:e6:07:70:41
Yes. No ads, no subscriptions and no in-app purchases. The source code is on GitHub under the MIT license.
No. SuperTube is an independent project, not affiliated with Google or YouTube. It is built on SmartTube, an open-source client.
Google Play doesn't accept apps like this one, so it is published as an APK on this page and in the GitHub releases, with the signing certificate listed in the README.
Android and Play Protect warn about apps that don't come from Google Play, and Google doesn't like apps that block YouTube ads. SuperTube is open source and signed by its author. The install section explains each message and how to go ahead.
The app is legal open-source software. YouTube's Terms of Service don't allow third-party clients or ad blocking, and downloading can infringe copyright unless you have the rights or your law allows it. How you use it is your decision and your responsibility.
No. Sign in only if you want your subscriptions, history and playlists. The session is stored on your device.
No. SuperTube doesn't include Google Play Services, which those features need.
No. SuperTube is for Android 8.0 or newer, on phones, tablets and Android TV.
The “For Android TV” button and the address gestal.es/supertube/tv give you the universal TV APK, which works on every TV. Each release also has smaller files per processor: arm64-v8a for recent TVs and armeabi-v7a for older ones. The phone APK isn't made for a remote, and the TV one isn't made for touch screens.
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