Legal notice and license

Last updated: 2026-11-03

About SuperTube

SuperTube is a free, non-commercial, open-source project by Juan Gestal (juan@gestal.es), published at github.com/jgestal/SuperTube.

No affiliation and trademarks

SuperTube is an independent client. It is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Google LLC or YouTube, nor by the SmartTube project. YouTube, Android, Google TV and Google Play are trademarks of Google LLC. The SuperTube name and icon are not those of any of them. Other names are trademarks of their owners and are used only to describe compatibility.

Content

SuperTube doesn't host, upload or distribute any video. Everything you watch is served by YouTube and belongs to its owners. Copyright complaints about a video must be sent to YouTube.

Terms of use

• The software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind (see the license below).
• You are responsible for how you use it. The YouTube Terms of Service don't allow third-party clients, ad blocking or downloading videos without permission; using SuperTube may be against them, and YouTube may restrict access.
• Only download content you own, that is licensed for it (for example, Creative Commons) or that your local law lets you copy for private use.

License

SuperTube is released under the MIT license, the same as SmartTube, on which it is based:

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020-present yuliskov (SmartTube)
Copyright (c) 2026-present Juan Gestal (SuperTube modifications)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Third-party software

The apps include these components, each under its own license:

• SmartTube, MediaServiceCore, SharedModules (yuliskov) · MIT
• ExoPlayer 2.10 (Amazon port) · Apache 2.0
• AndroidX, Leanback, Jetpack Compose, Material 3 · Apache 2.0
• Kotlin, kotlinx.coroutines · Apache 2.0
• OkHttp, Retrofit · Apache 2.0
• Glide · BSD, MIT, Apache 2.0
• RxJava, RxAndroid · Apache 2.0
• Gson, Guava · Apache 2.0
• Cronet (Chromium) · BSD-3-Clause
• Conscrypt · Apache 2.0
• J2V8 · EPL 1.0
• dnsjava · BSD-2-Clause
• NetCipher · Apache 2.0
• JsonPath, nanojson · Apache 2.0
• Java Regex (florianingerl) · GPL 2.0
• ProcessPhoenix, DiskLruCache · Apache 2.0

Sponsor segments come from the SponsorBlock community database (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Images on this website

The screenshots show open movies by Blender Studio (Spring, Sprite Fright, Singularity and others), © Blender Foundation, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Blender is a trademark of the Blender Foundation. The SuperTube icon and artwork are part of the project (MIT).