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Invidious

Browse YouTube without tracking or ads

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About this app

An open source alternative front-end to YouTube

User Features:

  • Lightweight
  • No ads
  • No tracking
  • No JavaScript required
  • Light/Dark themes
  • Customizable homepage
  • Subscriptions independent from Google
  • Notifications for all subscribed channels
  • Audio-only mode (with background play on mobile)
  • Support for Reddit comments
  • Available in many languages, thanks to our translators

Data Import/Export:

  • Import subscriptions from YouTube, NewPipe and Freetube
  • Import watch history from NewPipe
  • Export subscriptions to NewPipe and Freetube
  • Import/Export Invidious user data

Technical features:

  • Embedded video support
  • Developer API
  • Does not use official YouTube APIs
  • No Contributor License Agreement (CLA)
What's new
Version 2.20250913.0-1last month

This update fixes playback and startup issues by adding the new companion component.

Other Key Highlights:

  • DASH now enabled by default due to YouTube stream changes
  • Graceful handling of parse errors: broken items replaced with error cards
  • Player upgrades: persistent caption styles and default playlist selection
  • Enhanced keyboard shortcuts for caption customization
  • Improved stability for video retrieval without Companion
  • API gains support for structured parse-error JSON responses
  • Significant bug fixes for livestream proxying, feeds, playlists, search, and video info

For full release notes, visit https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/releases

Version 2.20250913.02 months ago

This release brings new features, improvements and bug fixes. Key Highlights:

  • DASH now enabled by default due to YouTube stream changes
  • Graceful handling of parse errors: broken items replaced with error cards
  • Player upgrades: persistent caption styles and default playlist selection
  • Enhanced keyboard shortcuts for caption customization
  • Improved stability for video retrieval without Companion
  • API gains support for structured parse-error JSON responses
  • Significant bug fixes for livestream proxying, feeds, playlists, search, and video info

For full release notes, visit https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/releases

Version 2.20250517.05 months ago

This release brings small improvements and bug fixes.

For full release notes, visit https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/releases

Version 2.20250314.07 months ago

This release brings the long awaited feature of supporting multiple audio tracks in a video, some bug fixes and UX improvements, and many other things primarily oriented to self-hosting instances, and developers using the API.

Key improvements in this release:

  • Invidious now supports videos with multiple audio tracks allowing you to select which one you want to hear with!
  • Channel pages now have a proper previous page button
  • RSS feeds for channels will no longer contain the channel's profile picture
  • Support for channel courses page has been added
  • Community tabs has been replaced with Posts to comply with YouTube changes
  • Tamil is now an available interface language.

For full release notes, visit https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/releases

Version 2.20241110.012 months ago

This release addresses a critical issue that was causing channel pages to fail with a "Youtube API returned error 400" error. Video playback issues still persist in this release.

Key improvements in this release:

  • Fixed channel pages loading issues
  • Added new video preload control option in preferences
  • Shorts can now be sorted by newest, oldest, and popular
  • Added support for new interface languages: Bulgarian, Welsh and Lombard
  • Improved instance switching speed
  • Fixed various playback and subscription issues

For full release notes, visit https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/releases

Version 2.20240825.2last year

New features and improvements:

  • Search bar now has a clickable button
  • YouTube URLs can be pasted directly in the search bar
  • Channel page "streams" tab can be sorted by newest, oldest, or popular
  • Videos embedded in local HTML files can now be played
  • Updated translations

For full release notes, visit https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/releases

Version 2024.4.26-eda7444last year
Version 2024.3.31-08390aclast year
Version 2024.1.10-1c0b420last year
  • Add option to disable force_resolve in make_client

    Some websites such as archive.org and textcaptcha.com does not support IPv6 and as such requests fail when Invidious requests with IPv6 to those services.

  • Reenable force_resolve on pubsub subscribe request

  • Make force_resolve false by default in make_client

  • Remove missed explicit force_resolve=false

Version 2023.8.7-34508962 years ago
  • This version includes a workaround for fetching streaming URLs.
Version 2023.4.10-961cae22 years ago
  • Fix for subscription feed not updating.
  • Improve accessibility
  • Videos: Add support for attributed descriptions
  • Update specs
  • Videos: fix description text offset when emojis are present
  • fix view count extraction
  • Search: Fix channel search
  • CSS: fix long description overflow
Version 2022.11.22-5160d8ba2 years ago
  • QUIC Hotfix
  • Custom Playlists
  • New RPCs
  • Turkish, Chinese, and Japanese translations
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