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Perhaps because one is accustomed to the NewPipe experience and would prefer consistency across devices?

Never heard of Freetube, but it looks pretty snazzy.

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> Never heard of Freetube, but it looks pretty snazzy.

I've used it for several months now and am very happy with it. I'ts a Electron app, however, so don't expect it to be small; I hope they will consider rebuilding it using Tauri, which would reduce its size drastically.

I know a lot of people hate on the recommendations homepage on YouTube, but I discover a lot of content I like watching there. However, I can't watch all of it and what to save what I see there and otherwise find and search for in a playlist, but the watch later playlist is not user friendly. Does Freetube improve playlist management too? That would be a big plus.

I never used the playlist on FreeTube, but just gave it a look and the use seems straightforward to me. It probably depends a lot on user needs, anyway operations look lightning fast compared to the "original".

I don't know, it makes sense that UI between desktop and mobile would be different. I use Freetube on desktop and newpipe on mobile.

Having said that, newpipe is not only a youtube client but also a soundcloud, bandcamp and a few others too.

I tried it, it didn't feel like what you get on android and had ui glitches

I have been enjoying the new version that just came out yesterday, they implemented a new video player and IMHO the user experience is much improved, if the UI glitches you mentioned were related to the player, maybe you could give it a try.

Parabolic it's far better for desktop users.

That seems to be a tools for downloading youtube videos, but the others presented here were for browsing it and watching videos as well

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