One of the most popular YouTube modded App Vanced is now discontinued after a legal notice from Google. Vanced officially published the discontinuation notice on March 13 on their telegram channel, the old version will still work but they will not release a new update. They will remove the app from the official website. Now many Vanced users looking for a Vanced alternative, and we have found many Vanced alternative apps for Android like NewPipe, LibreTube, SkyTube, and some browser and browser extensions.
We have found many YouTube-modded apps as Vanced alternative apps Android App like NewPipe, LibreTube, SkyTube, and many underdeveloped projects like VueTube. Here you can find all the Vanced alternative YouTube modded App and will also add new projects in this article. We also add some browser and browser extensions to block YouTube ads, skip the intro, skip promotion, and support the browser to play YouTube videos in the background.
Why YouTube modded App?
YouTube is the second most popular website in the world. It is a global platform that has a massive reach. YouTube is not just for videos anymore, but it has evolved into a social media platform with millions of users.
The YouTube Modded App allows you to watch videos and live streams on your mobile device while simultaneously watching on your TV. You can also watch YouTube on your desktop or laptop computer by mirroring what’s on your screen to the TV via Chromecast or Apple TV.
YouTube Modded App offers some benefits:
1) You don’t have to watch ads – you get access to an ad-free experience that doesn’t interrupt your viewing experience
2) You can cast videos from YouTube directly to your TV and enjoy them in high quality
3) You can play YouTube Videos in the background – Play YouTube Videos like Music Player
4) Skip the Intro and Promotion Part of the video
5) Some modded app Return YouTube Dislike button
Vanced alternative apps for Android Devices
1. NewPipe
NewPipe is a simple YouTube video player app that doesn’t use Google framework libraries or the YouTube API it is simply parsed to fetch the video from the YouTube web view. The app is still in beta mode but works all the functions. The main cons of the app are you cant login with your Google account you have to search video playlists to watch videos.
Top NewPipe Features:
- Support YouTube, SoundCloud, media.ccc, framatube, bandcamp
- No Login Required
- Play YouTube Videos in the background
- Block Sponsor Part
- Listen to YouTube videos
- Popup mode (floating player)
- Select streaming player to watch video with
- Download videos
- Download audio only
- Open a video in Kodi
- Show next/related videos
- Search YouTube in a specific language
- Watch/Block age restricted material
- Orbot/Tor support (not yet directly)
- 1080p/2K/4K support
- Subscribe to channels
- Search/watch playlists
- Watch as enqueued playlists
- Local playlists
- Subtitles
- Livestream support
NewPipe Links – Github | SponsorBlock Version
2. LibreTube
Here is another Vanced alternative app LibreTube app-based is on the Piped framework developed by libre-tube GitHub users, supporting most top Youtube features. The main feature of the app you can create an account and save a playlist subscription of your youtube channel. Other top features like selecting the country of the youtube version so you can see the trendy videos currently running. The app is still in beta you may encounter bugs.
Top LibreTube Features:
- User Accounts
- Youtube country Selection
- Subscriptions
- Play YouTube Videos in the background
- Download videos
- Trending
- Channels
- Search
- Search Suggestions
- Subtitles
LibreTube Link – Github
3. SkyTube
SkyTube is an open-source YouTube player for Android, without ads developed by SkyTubeTeam. With SkyTube you can block channels, videos, Block low-view videos, Block high-dislike videos, and many more. The app supports Android 4.0 to Android 12 and will provide an update for the new Android version.
Top SkyTube Features:
- Explore Featured and Most Popular videos.
- Browse YouTube channels.
- Play YouTube videos.
- Play YouTube Videos in the background
- View video comments.
- Search videos, music and channels.
- Channel subscription & non-intrusive notifications.
- Subscriptions feed.
- Import subscriptions from YouTube
- No ads.
- Multilingual.
- No need for Google/YouTube account to operate
- Not dependent on GApps/Google App
- Does not spy on your behaviour!
SkyTube Link – Github
4. VueTube
VueTube is a newly launched Vanced alternative app for Android the app will be almost the same as Youtube Vanced and will support Google account sign-in. The app is still in development and has not been released yet, we will share the download link once it is available.
VueTube Features:
- Themes: Light, Dark, OLED
- Search: Basic (Advanced search in progress)
- Auto Update: Be notified when an update is available & downgrade if you dislike it!
- Google account sign-in
- Locally store watch history
- A custom video player
- A fully customizable UI
- Most features from the official youtube app
- Google account sign in
- Tracking protection
- Advanced video search
- Return Youtube Dislike
- Play YouTube Videos in the background
VueTube Link – GitHub
5. MusicPiped
MusicPiped is a materialistic designed music player. It tries to be a music player that instead of playing music from local files streams them from YouTube. It is similar to YouTube Music in the sense that it searches and plays from YouTube.
Top VueTube Features:
- Search Youtube
- Background Playback
- Notification Control
- Audio Only Streaming
- AutoPlay Recommended (sync icon in playback screen)
- Material design
- Automatic cache management
- Import YouTube Playlist
- Custom Playlist
- General Music Player features (Shuffle, Repeat, etc)
- Autogenerated Top Tracks, History/Last Played, etc
MusicPiped Link – GitHub
Vanced alternative browsers and browser extensions
1. Brave Browser
If you are looking for Vanced alternative apps and want to use just a browser. Here are some browsers and browser extensions with that you can play YouTube videos in the Background. Also, you can block ads with some extensions. With Brave mobile, you can enable Background playback from the browser setting, and with the uBlock Origin extension, you can block ads.
2. Kiwi Browser
Kiwi Browser is a Chromium-based mobile Browser and supports all Chrome extensions. The browser is completely enabled with Vanced features with the help of the extensions and a fully Vanced alternative for Android. Here are some extensions and setups for the Browser.
Kiwi Browser Vanced Alternative Setup
- First, install the browser from the play store.
- Second, install the uBlock Origin ad-blocker extension for blocking ads.
- Install the SponsorBlock extension to block the Sponsor part of youtube videos.
- Third, install the Violentmonkey extension and then Video Background Playscript to enable Background Playback.
- optional extensions –
- Dark Reader: universal dark theme extension.
- YouTube Click To Play: user script disabling video autoplay.
