InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
An open-source Android app to let you browse YouTube and other services freely.
About the project
A NewPipe fork for Android that lets you browse YouTube and other video services without ads, with SponsorBlock, ReturnYouTubeDislike, background playback and playlist downloads.
Useful for
- Watch YouTube ad-free with automatic skipping of sponsored segments
- Download a full playlist for offline viewing
- Listen to videos in the background as music with a sleep timer
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 32 stars so far today, about 42 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 7 per day, so that's 6.5× as much.
- Over the last two days the pace is 5.3× that of the previous week and a half.
- The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- Hacker News: “PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock” — 70 points, 1 day ago.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 6,172
- Today
- 32 · ≈ 42 by evening
- Forks
- 212
- Issues and pull requests
- 2,391
- Watchers
- 51
- Language
- Shell
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Latest release
- v5.4.0 · September 24, 2026
- Created
- May 11, 2022
- Last push
- September 26, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock70 points, September 25, 2026
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- September 26, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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