Clipious

Android client application for invidious, the privacy focused youtube front end

Features

• Use own or public server
• Subscription management
• SponsorBlock + DeArrow (click bait removal)
• Video view/progress tracking
• Playlists
• background playback
• Live stream support
• Android TV ui
• Audio playback
• Video / audio download
• Video filtering
• Return YouTube dislikes

Custom Features

• DeArrow improvements: Normalize video titles and replace more thumbnails
• Hide videos: Hide videos from subscriptions (requires an invidious fork)
• Video Chapters: Chapter markers with title popup and highlight track in the player (requires an invidious fork)
• Show channel icons on search: Display channel thumbnails in search results
• Add video history on TV: Browse watched videos from the TV home menu
• TV recommendations: Show recommended videos right in the player

Patches from Videre

• Credential leak fix in thumbnail loading
• HTML response crash protection
• Nullable FormatStream fields for compatibility with non-standard instances
• Credential logging removal
• Non-DASH quality selection fix
• Disable Impeller on Android to fix black video on TV
• Comment parsing for current Invidious payloads (singular authorThumbnail, non-list comments)
• Ignore thumbnail errors after leaving a screen
• No-op layout reorder guard and search history on by default when unset
• Maxres-first thumbnails and overlay child stays visible on image failure
• Propagate documents-directory failure instead of falling back to Directory.current
• Deep-link video-id validation and log scrubbing (URLs and cookies)
• Download path traversal protection (safe file ids, joined paths)
• Aspect-ratio guard for missing decoder size and fullscreen bottom inset fix
• Empty-buffer crash guard and re-read saved server after token login
• SponsorBlock skip-loop fix, fetch guards, subtitle bounds check, show zero dislikes
• Duration badges on compact video thumbnails
• Grid aspect ratio scales with text size
• Keep TV settings open while sliders consume remote keys
• Stale video-load guard and async dislike loading
• Search suggestion race fix (per-cubit timer, stale-response guard) and TV history fix
• Stop background playback promptly, owned player-control timers, subscribe-button closed guards
• Comment load guard, keep comments on error, retry button
• Tolerant per-format parsing and channelId-keyed subscription continuations
• Hardened playback fallback (source cap, media-URL validation, no instance credentials to the native player, stale-setup cancellation)
• Bounded quality selection (resolutions from budget-accepted streams, tracks from built sources)
• Per-source media headers and resolution fallback chain in the player
• Invidious DASH 400 "No check ID" fix (manifest resolver, one retry, route-health cache)
• Hardened Invidious sessions (status code + HTML diagnostics, session validation, no infinite subscribe retry)
• 429 handling with Retry-After, duplicate video-request coalescing, 15 s browse cache, Accept: application/json
• Dropped playback commands fix (play/pause intent survives source setup)
• Keep playback position when switching to audio; ignore zero-progress until the initial seek finishes
• Queue, pagination, FileDB and redirect fixes (queue correctness, Timer lifecycle, cursor restore on failure, serialised atomic FileDB writes, origin-scoped redirects, sequential history sync, serialised server edits)
• Exact resume position (saved position/duration, resume to the exact second, transactional watched-status updates)
• Mini-player drag fixes (cancel settles to mini/big, drag state resets, top clamped to the viewport with keyboard inset)
• Audio-focus and MediaSession sync (play/pause re-emit on ready, admitted position published before play/rate events)
• Relaxed server-setup thumbnail validation (one usable resolved thumbnail is enough)
• Queue occurrence identity (same video twice in a playlist/queue stays two entries, per-occurrence ids)
• Invidious image routing (YouTube artwork via the selected instance, size-aware thumbnails, background download artwork)
• Single-encode query parameters (no double-encoding of search text, continuations survive pagination)
• Stale-proof selector searches and channel load errors (out-of-order results ignored, retry instead of a hanging spinner)
• Early seeks applied after setup and player sheets dismiss on Back first
• Shared media URL helpers; audio sources validated and routed like video playback

Installation

Download the latest APK from the Releases Section.

Screenshots

Phone

Tablet

TV

Credits

This is a fork of Clipious, licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later.

Clipious code:         Copyright (C) 2023 Paul Fauchon
Videre patches:        Copyright (C) 2026 DVBeckwitt and Videre contributors
ForkPrince patches:    Copyright (C) 2026 ForkPrince

Provided without warranty. Users are responsible for complying with laws and terms that apply to their use of this app and their selected Invidious instance.