NewPipe Material

NewPipe Material is an independently maintained fork of NewPipe focused on Material 3 design, app theming, and product polish.

It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the official NewPipe project, TeamNewPipe, or NewPipe e.V.

NewPipe Material is built from NewPipe and keeps the NewPipe libre software license, upstream credits, and third-party license notices.

What is NewPipe Material?

NewPipe Material keeps the core NewPipe experience while modernizing the app identity and user interface.

Current fork goals:

- Material 3-inspired app surfaces, dialogs, settings, tabs, and navigation - Dynamic Material You color support where available - Manual Theme color presets such as App default, Neutral, Green, Blue, Purple, Orange, Pink, and Red - New app identity: NewPipe Material - Separate application ID: org.wisso.newpipematerial - Debug builds install separately as org.wisso.newpipematerial.debug - Preserve NewPipe behavior, import/export compatibility, and supported services

This fork intentionally avoids risky behavior changes in sensitive areas such as playback, downloads, background playback, popup playback, and extractor logic unless they are handled as dedicated, tested changes.

Supported services

NewPipe Material inherits NewPipe support for these services:

- YouTube and YouTube Music - PeerTube - Bandcamp - SoundCloud - media.ccc.de

Service support depends on the upstream NewPipe and NewPipe Extractor codebase.

Features

NewPipe Material keeps the familiar NewPipe feature set, including:

- Watch videos and live streams - Background playback - Popup player - Local playlists - Subscriptions without signing in to a platform account - Channel groups and feeds - Search and browse supported services - View video details, related videos, and comments where supported - Download video, audio, and captions where supported - Import/export app data for migration and backup

Material-focused additions include:

- Material 3 theme roles across more app surfaces - Bottom navigation for five or fewer main tabs, with scrollable TabLayout fallback for larger tab sets - Default bottom main tab position for new/unset installs - Dynamic/manual Theme color support - NewPipe Material fork attribution in the About screen - Release signing support for fork builds

Migrating data

NewPipe Material does not automatically share app data with official NewPipe.

To migrate:

1. Open official NewPipe. 2. Export your database from Settings > Backup and Restore. 3. Install NewPipe Material. 4. Import the exported database from Settings > Backup and Restore.

Always keep a backup before importing data between builds.

License

NewPipe Material is free software based on NewPipe and is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.