OpenTubeX: baixar versions anteriors

More improvements

- Keep quick settings together by category and smoothly drag to reorder quick settings, navigation items, and fullscreen actions. (#1963)
- Desktop sync and subscription refreshes run heavy processing in the background to keep the interface more responsive. (#1964)
- Switches now show a checkmark when on and a dash when off, making their state easier to recognize. (#1966)
- External media pages now match YouTube's metadata and ratings layout, including relative publication age, thumb icons, and the likes/dislikes ratio bar. (#1967)
- Loading desktop tabs keep their icons visible and show a glowing bottom-edge sweep with subtly muted text; subscription tabs retain their normal appearance while refreshing. Appearance settings can restore the classic loading dot. (#1971)
- Playing desktop tabs keep their icons and avatars, with a small corner play badge showing playback. (#1974)
- The Shorts volume slider now matches the regular player's thin track, accent-colored fill, and white thumb. (#1976)
- Hover over the seek bar to see a video’s most replayed moments, or hide the popularity graph in Distraction Free settings. (#1992, #1994)
- Navigation and tab controls now use Material 3 styling with clearer active highlights, consistent mobile labels, and shared crossfade animations. (#2025)

- Videos open sooner with the built-in player by fetching watch metadata while preparing the player script and playback token. (#2040)
- Choose which data to include in a backup ZIP, and fix backup exports failing to open the save dialog. (#2036)
- Tab bars now follow the app's shared scrollbar settings, with slimmer thumbs that expand on hover. (#2046)

- The Music Mode headphone badge now cuts out the profile avatar, matching playing-tab badges. (#2047)
- The mobile More menu now uses a Material 3 bottom sheet. Drag handles let you pull More and context menus down to dismiss them, and tapping outside slides them off the screen. (#2039)

- Repair selected playlists or all playlists to restore missing video details after importing YouTube Takeout. (#2056)
- The Entire App untranslated-text option now also restores original channel names in search results. (#2067)
- Browse watch history by date range and channel, with filters that work alongside text search. (#1654, #2085)
- Restore pending watch queue videos in their saved order after restarting OpenTubeX. (#1651, #2082)
- Find and open individual videos from history, playlists, downloads, and the watch queue in the command palette, with each result showing its source. (#1653, #2088)
- Preview record counts and merge or replacement effects before importing a backup or YouTube Takeout ZIP. (#1662, #2083)
- Adjust captions earlier or later during playback with a per-video timing offset and Reset. (#1656, #2090)

- Choose your own playlist thumbnails, replace or restore them, and sync them between devices. (#1745, #2084)
- Material themes now offer Light, Dark and Black variants, with preset, custom or Android wallpaper accent colors. Dynamic colors follows the system accent on desktop and the wallpaper on Android, along with the light/dark preference. (#1608, #2073, #2098)
- Icons now identify actions in the tray menu and follow your selected icon pack. (#2104)
- Existing installations now start without the outdated “Settings have moved” notice. (#2091)
- Display GIFs in comments and replies, with animation only while hovered. (#2105)

Fixed bugs

- Tab previews transition more cleanly when pulling down the app header on Android, with smoother clipping and immediate tab selection after release. (#1961)
- Preserve channel names and view counts in recommendations when channel names contain words such as “preview”. (#1962)
- Fixed the volume icon sitting too high inside the video player's circle and expanded volume control. (#1965)
- Match the spacing around Up Next and Available Offline headings to the gaps between videos. (#1968)
- Offer a cookie retry and an age-restriction hint wh

Highlights

- Refreshed switches, sliders, selects, inputs, buttons, and checkboxes with Material 3 styling, keeping desktop controls compact and touch controls larger on mobile. (#1761, #1773)
- Cast videos to DLNA and Google Cast devices from Android, iOS and desktop. OpenTubeX can now stream higher-resolution YouTube video with locally combined audio. (#1741)

More improvements

- Mobile apps now show the themed startup splash, with an option to hide it. (#1707, #1710)
- Redesigned the phone header with search in the header, an option to keep search visible, and tab history in the tab overview. (#1714, #1719)

- Keep the mobile navigation bar visible while scrolling or use a compact 48 px icon-only bar with two new options in Customize navigation. (#1693, #1704)

- Fullscreen-on-rotate is now enabled by default, with a separate Android option to enter fullscreen even when system rotation is locked. (#1718, #1723)
- UI Roundness now also shapes watched video cards, tab underlines, switches, progress tracks, badges, and additional controls. (#1727, #1729)
- Open video tabs on another device from desktop and mobile tab context menus. (#1748)

- Open videos in a background tab from the mobile context menu using the shortcut that replaces the extra thumbnail action. (#1753)
- iOS nightly builds now install alongside stable as OpenTubeX Nightly, with separate settings and libraries. (#1755)
- Choose from 12 built-in profile icons; All Channels now uses a person icon by default. (#1757)
- Manage profiles using separate Customization and Manage profile subscriptions tabs. (#1778)
- Mobile playlists now open beside the video with compact landscape rows, and playlist, history, transcript, and header controls have clearer placement and spacing. (#1759, #1762, #1766)
- Tap or swipe upward anywhere on the mobile mini-player, except its close button, to reopen the video. The expand arrow is removed to leave more room for the title. (#1763, #1765)
- The mobile mini-player now shows playback progress and offers 10-second seeking, play/pause, and available playlist controls. Repeated seek feedback also keeps its running total after buffering. (#1796)
- Add downloaded videos and audio to the watch queue for offline playback. (#1807)
- Channel tabs fit into one row without scrolling and slide the active underline when switching sections. (#1785)
- Preview the first five comments with commenter avatars and animated position dots below videos on mobile. (#1813)
- Playback from external media links now resume where you left off. (#1849)
- Seek by swiping horizontally in fullscreen, with a live seek-bar thumb and frame previews when available. Toggle the gesture in Playback settings. (#1770, #1831)
- Customize left and right swipes on mobile video cards for quick playlist, watch history, queue, bookmark, download, copy, and share actions. (#1758, #1828)
- Player options open faster on slower systems and under heavy load. (#1859)
- Switching subscription feeds is faster, especially with large subscription lists or under heavy system load. (#1860)
- Disable tabs on mobile from General settings to keep one page and hide tab controls and new-tab actions. (#1832, #1834)
- Customize the color and opacity of watched thumbnail overlays in the Theme Editor. (#1731, #1734)
- Correct SponsorBlock categories or copy segments to edit their timings from the info panel and skipped notices (#1869)

- iOS downloads now support templates, audio conversion, metadata, and clipping using bundled FFmpeg and FFprobe. (#1742)
- Swipes to switch tabs now work across mobile header controls and the logo while preserving taps and long presses. (#1870)
- Customize fullscreen action buttons, including Queue, recommended videos, and a shortcut to the download dialog. (#1871, #1874)

- Fill the search box from a suggestion without submitting, using its new arrow button. (#1877)
- Enable Music Mode controls in Playback settings to start new videos in the current tab from the beg

Highlights

- Experimental iPhone and iPad support, with downloadable IPAs and sideloading instructions. (#1571)

More improvements

- Account activity now shows which synced items changed and uses readable names for setting choices. (#1557, #1558)
- Back up and restore profiles, playlists, history, watch statistics, and settings in one ZIP file. (#1433, #1560)
- Scheduled stream reminders can now sync between devices. (#1562, #1563)
- Playlist playback skips private and members-only videos by default. The behavior can be turned off in Playback settings. (#1567, #1568)
- Cast videos to compatible DLNA or UPnP devices from the desktop player. (#1564, #1569)
- On phones in portrait, Shorts actions open in bottom sheets while the video keeps playing. (#1577)
- Mobile select options now open in a centered dialog. (#1576)
- Mobile gestures now give subtle haptic feedback when player and tab actions complete. (#1591)
- Swipe between mobile tabs even when the next tab is unloaded; its preview appears until it loads. (#1587)
- The SponsorBlock whitelist can now be managed inside settings (#1586)
- Apply pin, unpin, load, unload, and reload actions to selected tabs on mobile. (#1589)
- Playing videos now stay in a mobile bottom bar with channel details while browsing. (#1598)
- Shorts player controls now also support the new frosted-glass finish. (#1582)
- Loading tabs now show a pulsing indicator in the tablet tab strip and phone tab organizer. (#1616)
- Scroll long subscription feeds more smoothly on desktop. (#1622)
- Play subscriber-only Twitch VODs when the standard extractor cannot access them. (#1628)
- Android APK downloads are smaller while retaining FFmpeg, yt-dlp, and the existing playback features. (#1626)
- Ctrl+Alt+middle-click a link to open it in an unloaded background tab. (#1638, #1639)
- Channel About now shows links to creators’ websites and social profiles. (#1647)
- Watch 360° videos by dragging the player to look around, while clicking still plays or pauses. (#1449, #1640)
- Hide or show channels directly from channel-link context menus. (#1636, #1641)
- Search completed downloads by title or channel, filter by format or date, and sort by date or file size. (#1659, #1665)
- Stop playback at the end of the current chapter with the sleep timer. (#1655, #1663)
- Temporarily pause channel and phrase block lists from settings or Quick Settings without deleting entries. (#1637, #1645)
- Hide end-screen recommendations without hiding recommendations elsewhere. (#1672, #1664)
- Shorts now keep the last three videos buffered at their playback positions and preload streams for the next three, making navigation faster. (#1669)
- The video player, captions, and watch-page skeletons follow UI Roundness, player control pill spacing is consistent, and enabled comments show a loading skeleton. (#1677)
- External media loading screens now match the player layout, and audio players show available artist names and channel avatars. (#1679)
- Reduce overlay scrollbar overhead while scrolling, especially on slower systems. (#1684)
- Tab reordering is more responsive on slower desktop systems. (#1681)
- Reduces CPU and memory overhead with large playlists and many tabs, and makes changing scrollbar visibility faster. (#1687)
- Android Back gestures now preview player docking and closing drawers or dialogs. Paused and loading videos stay available when navigating away. (#1689)

Fixed bugs

- Pasted external media links with trailing spaces now open the media page. (#1553)
- Centered the mobile SponsorBlock highlight button and removed stray dots from fullscreen video information. (#1566)
- Android mini-player videos stay aligned with their controls after zooming. (#1570)
- Keep the subscription feed refresh button beside its update status on small screens. (#1572)
- The Replay icon now appears when seeking to the end of a paused video with End. (#1574)
- Android uses the WebView player again for smoother Watch scrolling and mini-player 

Highlights

- Play individual media links from yt-dlp-supported sites with basic metadata support and Twitch Chat support. (#1399, #1514)

More improvements

- Videos shared in posts now show channel avatars, matching the video grid. (#1471)
- Reduce tab update overhead and redundant session writes, especially with many tabs open. (#1473)
- Sync remote changes as they happen, transfer only changed collections, view account activity, and send videos to your other devices with a compatible sync server. (#1478)
- Choose a tray icon palette or let it follow your OpenTubeX theme in Appearance settings. (#1474, #1475)
- Automatic sync now batches tab and history updates and uses live notifications instead of periodic requests while connected. (#1485)
- Find history videos using separated words or small typos, with a spinner while search results update. (#1502)
- Sync watch statistics by default and switch between individual devices and combined totals. (#905, #1511)
- Swipe the empty Android app bar to slide between loaded tabs. (#1516)
- Import subscriptions, watch and search history, and playlists directly from a YouTube Takeout ZIP, choosing which data to include. (#1521)
- Choose between frosted glass and classic player controls in Appearance (#1539)
- Android pinch zoom now shows its zoom level and snaps to fill the fullscreen player when its edges glow. (#1529)
- Remove unavailable videos from a local playlist after a scan, while keeping videos that could not be checked. (#1448, #1537)
- Download media from supported web URLs using the Downloads dialog or an external media page. (#1550)

Fixed bugs

- Returning from picture-in-picture on Android now restores landscape fullscreen when playback entered PiP from that view. (#1472)
- Fixed jerky scrolling when returning to the playing line after closing transcript search. (#1476)
- Allow the history repair status banner to be closed after repair stops. (#1480)
- Background tabs show loading immediately and wait for the active startup video to play before loading their content. (#1491)
- Keep subscription items marked as seen during refresh and sync seen posts between devices. (#1492)
- Fixed scrollbar thumbs moving out of position when changing animation speed. (#1494)
- Restored the page scrollbar after leaving Full Window following fullscreen or Picture-in-Picture. (#1391, #1495)
- Fixed custom Watch Later and Favorites playlists disappearing after restarting the app. (#1496, #1498)
- Fixed premature timeouts during slow encrypted sync uploads and misleading subscription-settings activity after subscribing to a channel. (#1500)
- Fixed the poster and recommendations remaining hidden after canceling autoplay. (#1503)
- Fixed mobile Shorts controls, panel sizing, gestures, video information placement, and the tab organizer’s Close Tabs header. (#1518)
- Fixed clipped controls and distorted loading placeholders for Shorts on landscape phones. (#1519)
- Android Picture-in-Picture playback continues when reopening OpenTubeX from the home-screen icon. (#1523)
- Prevent a black rectangle from appearing above the Android mini player while scrolling. (#1528)
- Fixed recurring built-in video extraction failures caused by QuickJS stack exhaustion on Android and desktop. (#1527)
- Fixed history entries showing January 1, 1970 when a video's publication date is unavailable. (#1531)
- Keep the Android status bar visible after swiping down from a fullscreen video. (#1524)
- Channel pages keep the loading indicator visible until their videos have loaded. (#1548)
- Keep the quick playback speed bar from jumping backward while dragging it on Android during playback. (#1522)

Highlights

- Android now supports yt-dlp playback and downloads, including formats, subtitles, automatic downloads, queue controls, and offline playback. (#1156, #1162)
- Get personalized recommendations for unwatched videos on Home, with local learning, discovery controls, and feedback to refine your feed. (#945, #1157)
- Choose OpenTubeX Light or OpenTubeX Dark for homepage-inspired teal colors and soft gradient backgrounds. (#1144)
- Android uses native video playback to keep audio continuous through screen lock and Picture-in-Picture, with improved player controls, gestures, and fullscreen behavior. (#1094, #1180)
- Discover community themes in Appearance settings, preview their screenshots, and install, apply, or update them in one click. (#1204)

More improvements

- Click comment thread lines to expand or collapse replies, with hover highlighting to show which thread you control. (#1158)
- Tab groups now show tab previews with titles and icons in a custom tooltip. (#1169)
- Android's tab organizer now shows page icons and available channel avatars for tabs from other devices. (#1170)
- Subscription premieres now refresh their watching count and automatically become normal videos when they finish. (#1168)
- Long-press the Android app icon to open Subscriptions, Playlists, History, or Downloads. (#1181, #1183)
- Share links with Android's native share picker from the share panel or a thumbnail's long-press menu. (#1178)

- Browse phone tabs with real page previews, hold for actions, and drag to rearrange tabs on phones and tablets. (#1179)
- You can now add optional light and dark theme selectors through the Quick Settings customizer. They appear when using System Default and are not added by default. (#1175)
- Configure left and right video swipes to adjust brightness, volume, or playback speed on mobile, with an optional full-brightness setting for fullscreen playback. (#1201)
- Ask for confirmation before opening all synced tabs from another device. (#1211)
- Hide a channel’s videos, Shorts, live streams, or posts directly from the subscription feed’s three-dot menu. (#1216, #1217)
- Pull down to refresh pages in the Android app, with an option to disable the gesture. (#1225, #1226)
- Copy complete YouTube playlists into editable local playlists, then add missing videos from the source whenever you choose. (#1227, #1228)
- When autoplay is off, finished videos show a darkened poster with recommended videos and hide end-screen annotations. (#1231)
- Videos marked as seen now sync across devices when history sync is enabled with enhanced privacy and a supporting sync server. (#1208, #1209)
- Mobile now supports settings for tab position, selection after closing, startup restoration, and remembering back/forward navigation history. (#1236)
- Android now supports moving Settings to the header, voice-over translation, choosing the app font, and adjusting UI Scale from 75% to 150%. (#1242)
- Wait for lost connections to recover, with a reconnecting banner and a brief green “Back online” confirmation, without repeated API error notifications. (#1239)

- Unseen subscription posts can now be marked as seen from their options menu. (#1249)
- Android now supports HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS proxies for playback, downloads and background requests, with no direct fallback when the proxy fails. (#1240)
- Faster startup when restoring many loaded tabs, especially on slower CPUs. (#1252)
- Set upcoming video preloads to 0 to use only manual playlist preloading, and run up to 32 concurrent preloads. (#1235, #1237)
- Desktop startup now shows a themed splash with a continuous loading bar and a curtain reveal when the app is ready. (#1256)
- See repeat count and time spent below looping videos, with an option to hide the stats in Distraction Free settings. (#1248)
- Moved the sidebar subscription visibility setting from Distraction Free settings to Appearance → Customize navigation. (#1206)

Fixed bugs

- Restored network access in Windows po

Highlights

- YouTube Music audio tracks and audio-only formats now use a dedicated artwork player with an optional visualizer. (#393, #1035)
- There is early Android app support now with Local API playback, notifications, deep links, picture-in-picture, full-screen swipe gestures, background playback and subscription refresh. When using sync tab sessions are now also stored separately per device with an option to open tabs from other devices or have them synced together. (#1049)

More improvements

- Choose date and time formats independently of the app language. (#969, #1027)
- Choose which feed types each subscribed channel may show, set a daily video limit, and opt into members-only videos when yt-dlp playback cookies are configured. (#550, #846, #1036)
- Added a test toast button beside the toast position setting. (#1040)
- Manage signed-in sync devices, rename them, review system details, revoke sessions, and change your sync password. (#942, #1042)
- Search history can now save the same query with different filters and restore each preset exactly. (#526, #1043)
- Subscription New feed tabs now show which categories have unseen content and let you mark a category as seen from its context menu. (#1047)
- Preload upcoming yt-dlp videos automatically or cache an entire playlist before watching. (#1045, #1053)
- Customize which basic controls appear in Quick Settings from the Appearance settings. (#1046, #1059)
- Batch-edit subscription display and playback preferences, and add subscribed channels directly to Saved Channel Settings. (#1060)
- Automatic Picture-in-Picture on minimize now works on KDE Plasma Wayland. (#1075)
- You can now assign a keyboard shortcut to open the tab organizer. (#1076)
- Customize which destinations appear in the navigation bar, and reorder them from Appearance settings. (#1092)
- Configure up to eight concurrent yt-dlp preloads from the new yt-dlp Streaming playback section. (#1096, #1105)
- Quick Settings now shows an icon beside each category heading. (#1107)
- Import custom themes directly from the clipboard in the theme editor. (#1135)
- Reload tabs with F5 as an alternative to Ctrl/Cmd+R. (#1095, #1103)
- Reduce unnecessary background work in player controls, progress indicators, and interface animations. (#1146)
- Desktop tab context menus are more compact, with quick-action icons and a two-row color palette including pink. (#1148)
- Use your configured yt-dlp cookies for subtitles and automatic translations, either separately or through “Always Use Cookies”. (#1126, #1141)

Fixed bugs

- Added space between RTL channel names and the sidebar scrollbar. (#1024, #1026)
- Recently ended live streams can now play with yt-dlp extraction. (#1017, #1020)
- Videos that become public after a members-only period now appear as new in subscriptions. (#1038)
- SponsorBlock contribution stats no longer appear when submissions are disabled. (#1039)
- The tutorial highlight now follows navigation layout changes when resizing the window. (#1041)
- Restored Picture-in-Picture after the video player reloads. (#1050)
- YT-DLP playback now recovers from stream errors without reloading the watch page. (#1068)
- Playlist cards now update their video count and other metadata immediately when a playlist changes. (#1062, #1066)
- Windows portable builds now store all application data in an OpenTubeX-data folder beside the executable. Before starting the updated portable build, existing users must copy or move the contents of %APPDATA%\OpenTubeX into OpenTubeX-data to keep their settings and profile. (#1073, #1074)
- Playlists now continue automatically after Shorts instead of stopping or looping indefinitely. (#1078, #1081)
- Saved playlists now update their displayed metadata after they are opened. (#1084, #1086)
- A-B repeat now continues when point B is set to the end of a video. (#1087)
- Keep concurrent subscription sync edits and preserve seekbar thumbnails and duration when reusing cached playback data. (#11

Highlights

- Navigate OpenTubeX with a standard gamepad, including menus, sliders, playback, and back controls. (#970, #984)
- Use the customizable Home page to resume videos and see recent subscriptions, queues, playlists, downloads, reminders, and weekly watch activity. (#855, #988)

More improvements

- Use browser-style shortcuts on internal links: middle-click opens a background tab, Ctrl-click or Cmd-click opens an active tab, and adding Shift opens a new window. (#847, #935)
- Comments and replies can now be translated into the app language, with a Distraction Free setting to hide translation buttons. (#4292, #936)
- Channel avatars now appear beside channel names in video and playlist results, with an option to hide them in Distraction Free settings. (#938)
- Search loaded comments, filter comments from the video creator, and keep personal comment pins at the top. (#861, #889, #939)
- Keep a mini player on screen while switching tabs. (#827, #937)
- Pair a device to enhanced-privacy sync by scanning a QR code or entering a text code, without re-entering account credentials or the privacy passphrase. (#914, #943)
- Age-restricted and unlisted videos now show labeled badges with icons below the watch-page title. (#949)
- See your SponsorBlock submissions, contributed segment skips, and time saved in the SponsorBlock panel. (#953)
- yt-dlp playback can now provide auto-generated and translated captions when the selected backend has none. (#950)
- Let yt-dlp use configured playback cookies for every video to request account-only formats. (#959)
- Update alerts now appear as notifications that can be dismissed until the app restarts. (#962)
- Added a searchable tab organizer with tab groups, bulk actions, and recently closed tab history. (#859, #964)
- Custom themes can now be shared directly from the theme editor through a pre-filled GitHub Discussion. (#977)
- The New subscriptions feed can now switch between combined sections or tabs. (#974)
- Repeat a selected part of a video with draggable A-B markers, player-menu controls, and configurable keyboard shortcuts. (#858, #989)

- Fill missing interface translations with optional AI-generated completions. (#978, #983)
- You can now adjust mouse-wheel and touchpad scroll speed from 25% to 300% in Appearance settings. (#944)
- Playlist view type can now be changed from Quick settings alongside the video view type. (#1009)
- Save YouTube playlists as read-only bookmarks in Your Playlists. (#1012, #1013)

Fixed bugs

- SponsorBlock settings no longer overlap neighboring controls when changed-setting highlights are enabled. (#932)
- Playlist loading failures can now be retried, and large Invidious playlists load later pages without duplicate videos. (#865, #871, #883)
- Fixed Trending category switches showing results or refresh state from a different pending request. (#872, #886)
- Neighboring tabs now animate smoothly when rearranging vertical tabs on slower systems. (#946)
- Opening Downloads with Ctrl+J no longer reloads the active tab. (#947)
- Playback settings controls now stay evenly aligned and wrap cleanly at narrow window sizes and non-default UI scales. (#955)
- Prevented player keyboard shortcuts from firing while typing in focused settings selects. (#956)
- Comments with no likes now show 0 instead of NaN. (#952)
- The tabbed subscriptions New feed now marks only the active category as seen and keeps its header controls usable at narrow widths. (#981)
- Keep the Quick settings avatar clear of wider scrollbars. (#968, #982)
- SponsorBlock automatic skips now trigger more promptly on slow or heavily loaded systems. (#995)
- Timelinks now keep resolved tab titles after restart, and paused or background videos no longer start playing unexpectedly. (#997)
- Sync failures now show a toast when Sync settings is not open. (#1000)
- Fixed videos failing to open when the system timezone is configured through /etc/localtime. (#991, #992)
- Improved the onboarding tutorial an

Highlights
- Added a command palette, opened with Ctrl or Cmd + K by default (#854, #911)

More improvements
- Settings are easier to navigate, search, and use at different window sizes (#560, #841)
- Retry age-restricted and members-only videos with cookies through yt-dlp (#843, #844)
- External software settings group yt-dlp and FFmpeg controls, while playback follows yt-dlp's maintained client order before using the embedded fallback (#849)
- Video thumbnails can show YouTube's animated hover previews (#851)
- Set custom SponsorBlock segment colors (#850)
- Ambient mode fills fullscreen letterbox and pillarbox bars and stays centered beside open information docks (#900)
- Playlist pages have an independent Grid or List view setting (#906, #909)
- New tabs can start with Skip Silence enabled while each tab keeps its own choice (#893, #910)
- Review disk usage and clean individual caches or saved data from Data & Storage settings (#857, #913)
- Downloads use a persistent queue with concurrency and bandwidth limits, and Ctrl or Cmd + J opens the Downloads page (#856, #912)
- Player errors offer a one-click retry with the other stream extraction method (#927)
- Control persistent yt-dlp stream URL caching with a configurable per-entry limit (#919, #928)

Fixed bugs
- Fixed spacing around empty subscription feed messages (#834)
- Prevent long-running and alternate-audio playback sessions from stalling or losing stream state (#833)
- Subscription feed tabs show their content without waiting for the indicator animation (#835)
- Completed automatic-download notifications play the local file instead of opening an empty watch tab (#838)
- The Skip Silence shortcut indicator shows both skip and mute symbols (#842)
- Keep the custom color picker's hue when dragging outside its color area (#840)
- Center icons and avatars inside square sidebar tiles when labels are hidden (#837)
- Subscription feeds stay responsive while refreshing large lists with many tabs open (#848)
- Settings search highlights complete settings and sections and excludes unavailable controls (#852)
- Community post galleries recover from failed image requests and remain navigable after switching feed tabs (#862)
- Fixed restored video tabs briefly showing as loading after switching away (#880)
- Fixed notification spacing, wrapping, and scrollbars in fullscreen (#876)
- Fixed playlist duration sorting, imported search history order, and pagination localization (#875)
- Videos opened from timestamped links resume from saved progress after restart (#890)
- Clearing the search bar remains effective after switching tabs (#888)
- Changing the Shorts setting no longer resizes a playing Short (#853)
- Normal square videos no longer open in the Shorts player (#894)
- Fixed Shorts information panels, fullscreen menu positioning, dock animations, and title interactions (#892)
- Fixed Settings shortcuts, nested view flashes, and lost category scroll positions (#899)
- Show full player menu labels in a tooltip when text is cut off (#902)
- Syncing open tabs no longer reloads tabs that remain open on another device (#903)
- Play videos with the configured yt-dlp extractor when the built-in metadata request is IP blocked (#819, #908)
- Line-delimited imports keep the final record and report malformed row numbers (#866, #879)
- Fixed History search pagination stopping after the first 100 matches (#869, #884)
- Stop filtered searches from loading repeatedly after reaching the end (#915)
- Downloads with very long titles are shortened instead of failing (#916)
- Fixed Invidious popularity sorting, thumbnails, and Basic authentication scoping (#917)
- Tabs no longer jump back while being reordered on slower systems (#925)
- Moving a tab resets the "After current tab in opened order" sequence (#921)
- The player shows the replay icon when a video ends (#926)
- Compact settings breadcrumbs keep the current category readable (#922)
- Comments load with the video when automatic paginatio

More improvements
- Saved channel playback preferences can now be synchronized through Settings sync (#720)
- Downloads can be retried, tracked when files change on disk, and played through the normal media player (#728)
- Added an option to keep background tabs in the order they were opened (#726)
- Subscription feed refresh progress now stays in one location throughout the app (#741, #752)
- Automatically download new uploads from selected channels using per-channel templates and filters (#626, #762)
- Optionally keep and review a local history of video titles, thumbnails, and descriptions (#546, #767)
- Choose whether tabs appear at the top, bottom, left, or right of the window (#677, #768)
- Custom themes support transparent colors, backdrop blur, clearer interaction colors, and an in-app color picker (#738, #740, #753)
- Choose which player elements remain visible while paused in full-window or fullscreen mode (#702, #754)
- Right-click the search filter button to clear all active filters (#585, #755)
- Added quick playback speed controls to the Shorts player (#742, #769)
- Choose the app font from installed system fonts or use the operating system default (#594, #765)
- Downloads and Settings can be moved independently from Quick Settings into the app header (#748)
- The New subscriptions feed can be sorted with the oldest content first (#789)
- Customize text selection colors in custom themes (#792)
- Added a global yt-dlp arguments setting for downloads (#804)
- Choose how managed yt-dlp and FFmpeg tools update (#791, #800)
- Skip Silence now jumps over silent sections instead of speeding through them (#563, #805)
- Added media playback controls to the macOS Dock menu (#810, #811)
- New installations use the built-in stream extraction method by default (#802)
- Switch between Subscriptions and channel feed tabs with the Left and Right Arrow keys (#771, #801)
- Failed downloads now link to recent yt-dlp YouTube issues and suggest alternate update channels (#824)
- New users can choose their tab layout, theme, and default video quality during onboarding (#794)
- Improved startup responsiveness and reduced background work in large feeds, transcripts, live chat, and overlays (#830)
- Middle-clicking collaborator channels opens them in background tabs (#814, #815)

Fixed bugs
- Show fallback channel metadata when channel thumbnails or details are unavailable (#721, #725)
- Hide transcript actions on videos without captions (#722)
- Show comment author photos returned by Invidious (#727, #729)
- Subscription cards update upcoming, premiere, and finished states after refreshes (#731)
- Fixed live chat scrolling and delayed new messages (#736)
- Fixed videos buffering indefinitely after switching quickly between Shorts (#732)
- Fixed watched styling, hover rounding, and initial scrolling in playlist panels (#743)
- Keep Search History open and unchanged when middle-clicking an entry (#739, #745)
- Restored sessions load the active video before background watch tabs (#750)
- Fixed automatic Picture-in-Picture return when another window closes (#773, #774)
- Running premieres keep their label, and stale channels no longer make subscription feeds appear outdated (#782)
- Fast-Forward Through Silence no longer affects videos in other tabs (#772, #778)
- Keep cached yt-dlp streams for open tabs when pruning the playback cache (#746)
- Retry yt-dlp extraction when a transient 403 prevents playback (#735, #775)
- Fixed playlist information being cut off in grid layout (#751)
- Completed downloads show the current title and thumbnail (#788)
- Fixed tab shifts with some custom fonts (#793, #808)
- Livestreams played through yt-dlp retain their DVR window and switch engines reliably (#817)
- Downloads no longer exhaust Flatpak temporary storage when the download drive has enough space (#816)
- Fixed missing Invidious thumbnails, blank Popular feeds, and an automatic comment loading error (#812)
- Fullscreen live chat no longer makes oth

Fixed bugs
- Fixed yt-dlp playback fallback failing for some videos after an IP block is detected (#714, #716)
- Fixed repeated Invidious API errors when loading comments whose authors have no avatar (#713, #717)
- Fixed live-chat placeholders appearing on videos without chat and repeated errors on videos with no comments (#719)

Highlights
- Upcoming premieres now refresh automatically, comments appear during premieres, and live chat supports improved scrolling, optional timestamps, chat selection, fullscreen docks, and replays (#490)
- Settings now opens in a draggable, resizable window with integrated subpages and cross-category search (#555, #570)
- Added advanced video and playlist download options plus a page for managing active and completed downloads (#351, #568)

More improvements
- Show managed tool download progress in persistent notifications (#487)
- Show translation completion percentages and theme select menus (#420, #482)
- Videos about a game now show its box art, title, and release year in the description (#456, #486)
- Subscription feed tabs move beside the page title when space permits (#483)
- yt-dlp is now the default stream extraction method and can be selected from General settings (#501)
- yt-dlp downloads, playback, and managed tool downloads now use the configured proxy (#413, #507)
- Show YouTube's paid-promotion disclosure, with an option to disable it (#494)
- Added an animation speed control to Theme settings (#491)
- Hashtags and handles in video titles and descriptions are now clickable (#485)
- Previous and next player buttons are shown only when the playlist has a video to skip to (#481)
- Refreshed per-channel playback speed, video quality, subtitle, and volume settings (#536)
- Added a setting to disable automatic Shorts looping (#538)
- Improved SponsorBlock labels, submission controls, and default skip prompts (#541)
- Chapters sidebars and fullscreen docks keep the current chapter centered (#542)
- The Ctrl+Tab switcher wraps into multiple rows and shows enabled tab icons (#554)
- Show an on-screen indicator when toggling Fast-Forward Through Silence with a keyboard shortcut (#528, #553)
- Removed the separator line when using horizontal tabs (#574)
- Video tags are shown at the bottom of descriptions, which can now be copied (#558, #573)
- Video thumbnails morph into newly opened tabs (#572)
- Individual subscription videos can be marked as seen from their overflow menu (#575)

Fixed bugs
- Fixed GitHub-style alerts and collapsible details in the in-app update changelog (#459)
- Show release notes for every update skipped since the installed version (#443)
- Fixed channel icons disappearing from restored tabs after restarting the app (#493)
- Fixed video quality remaining at 360p after switching back from legacy formats (#497)
- Show the video thumbnail while switching playback formats (#505)
- Fixed fullscreen comments appearing empty after reloading or re-sorting while scrolled down (#499)
- Keep the thumbnail and normal player size visible when video stream recovery fails (#508)
- Progress notifications no longer cover fullscreen video (#511)
- Fixed Picture-in-Picture state after restoring the window with multiple automatic triggers enabled (#492, #496)
- Fixed the scroll mini player position after resizing the window (#498)
- Comment sections correctly report disabled comments and hide unavailable reply controls (#502)
- Avoid running IP block recovery when a changed IP address invalidates streaming URLs (#523)
- Improved the update prompt and changelog rendering (#509)
- Fixed fullscreen Share and Add to playlist popovers appearing behind SponsorBlock notifications (#510)
- Improved Shorts controls, seekbar behavior, tab switching, and loading feedback (#495)
- Captions scale with the player and support sizes up to 400% (#527, #532)
- Fixed long context menu entries being cut off (#533, #535)
- Upcoming premieres cannot be marked as watched before airing (#534)
- Videos reload once when the YouTube watch session expires during playback (#540)
- Fixed horizontal tab previews being cropped (#549)
- Fixed tab bar clipping on macOS and the hamburger remaining visible with bottom navigation (#551)
- Channels and suggested videos on Shorts are now links (#556)
- Fixed stretched and soft-looking images in communi

Highlights
- You can now preview alternative icon packs (Material, Tabler, Phosphor, Lucide, Remix) in Theme Settings while a Font Awesome replacement is being evaluated (#394)
- yt-dlp can now be used to get video streams, and the media format selector shows which engine and streaming protocol are in use (#455, #471)

More improvements
- Show subscription feed refresh progress in a persistent notification while browsing outside the Subscriptions page (#386)
- Smoothly animate videos into and out of the scroll mini player (#387)
- Sync and context-menu search engines are now off by default, and no related requests are made until explicitly enabled (#423, #424)
- Show channel details and subscription controls beside Shorts in fullscreen (#451)
- Reduced background work while subscription feeds refresh in another app tab (#454)

Fixed bugs
- Fixed changed-setting highlights and individual resets for caption appearance and SponsorBlock category options (#383)
- Fixed tab titles, icons, and loading indicators briefly showing incorrect placeholder states (#385)
- Playlists containing members-only videos now load correctly, and captions keep their configured size in fullscreen (#399, #412, #429)
- Improved video playback reliability by reverting live SABR streaming support and stabilizing SABR error recovery (#422, #426)
- Fixed Picture-in-Picture controls resuming the video in the active tab instead of the PiP video (#389, #428)
- The tab play indicator is now hidden while a video is buffering (#445)
- Fixed end-screen annotation positioning and sizing on non-16:9 videos (#447)
- Fixed Shift range selection starting from a tab that had already been deselected (#446)
- Fixed seek bar hover thumbnails appearing behind end-screen annotations (#444)
- Fixed the fullscreen playlist dock using a native scrollbar instead of the custom overlay scrollbar (#448)
- Fixed theater mode doing nothing at intermediate window widths where its button was still visible (#452)
- Fixed audio downloads being reported as failed in Flatpak after the media file completed (#400, #442)
- Prevented the player from collapsing into a small black area during stream recovery or audio-only playback (#460)
- The icon-only chapters button in the player controls now shows whether the chapters overlay is open (#466)
- Channel lists with many subscriptions and the Settings page now open without long rendering delays (#458)
- Tab previews now show only the page content, use less disk space, and clean up leftover preview files on startup (#469)
- Keep custom playlist ordering responsive while videos are pending removal (#461, #462)
- Transcript searches now find phrases that span multiple caption lines (#463)
- Show a clear notice and remove stale reply controls when advertised comment replies are unavailable (#457)

More improvements
- The thumbnail progress and toast timeout indicator is now wrapped around both rounded corners (#370)
- Added an option to use a configurable fixed width for horizontal tabs (#367, #380)

Fixed bugs
- Fixed several Shorts, playlist panel, progress indicator, PiP, history, and layout regressions (#359, #360, #361, #362, #363, #364, #365, #366)
- Prevented closed tabs from reappearing after shutdown and made the app window appear sooner on startup (#369)
- Hovering a toast now reliably freezes its timeout indicator instead of sometimes letting the line keep draining (#373)
- Dragging the thumbnail size slider is smooth again on pages with many videos (#372)
- Fixed subscription feed layouts and animations, Shorts controls and watch progress, and menu layering near the tab bar (#374)
- Fixed the settings page jumping back to the highlighted section after switching tabs (#371)
- Fixed the app header disappearing when opening a modal on a scrolled page (#375)
- The animation of the subscription feed tab indicator no longer stutters when the feeds contain a lot of videos (#378)

Highlights
- Added support for end-to-end encrypted synchronization of subscriptions, playlists, history, channel playback speeds, profiles, tabs and settings
- Added a YouTube-style Shorts display and player that can be disabled in the theme settings (#344)
- Added a simple watch queue with a side panel on the watch page (#272, #275)
- The full-screen docks can now be resized and rearranged (#279)
- Updated the Add to playlist button to open an inline popover
- The subscription feed refresh can now be canceled and shows new videos instantly while still loading the rest (#293, #300)
- The New subscriptions feed now separates Videos, Shorts and Live content into dedicated sections (#347)
- Added predefined options for downloading videos as .mp4 files, and audio downloads now always embed metadata
- You can now multi-select tabs using Ctrl or Shift (#288, #308)
- Added an option to restore all previously open tabs on startup
- Tabs now display icons by default, which can be disabled in settings
- Toast notifications have a new appearance with icons, optional timeout indicators and video thumbnails (#294, #302, #303, #342)
- Performance improvements for startup, scrolling, long feeds, subscription refreshes, ambient mode and tab state updates (#315)
- Added display and submission support for SponsorBlock full-video labels and mute segments (#350, #357)
- Added a web search option with search engine customization to the right-click menu when selecting text (#340)
- Added clearer grouping to the single-column video action menu (#317)
- Fixed SABR recovery getting stuck in backoff loops or permanently dropping playback to 360p after repeated failures (#310, #325)
- Fixed comments not loading automatically in full-screen or background tabs (#305, #307, #330)
- Fixed subscription New-feed entries disappearing (#287, #323)

- Added support for downloading videos via yt-dlp (#37)
- The internals of the tab system were reworked. Creating and switching between tabs is a lot smoother now. One downside: Tab previews can no longer be captured of background tabs
- New full-screen docks for comments, playlists and chapters
- Keyboard shortcuts can now be customized
- Experimental fix that allows rewinding live streams/premieres (#163)
- Added an option to remember the history across restarts (#135)
- The SponsorBlock icon under the player now opens a side panel with the segments, the skip toggle and a new option to whitelist channels
- Auto PiP can now be set when minimizing or switching windows
- Options for showing indicators of newly fetched content and a separate new feed
- Improved comments appearance and now they render nested reply threads
- Updated autoplay to show the next video with the countdown on the player
- Chapters are now displayed in the sidebar instead of overlapping the video
- Added a button to switch between horizontal and vertical tabs
- Added a bunch of animations throughout the UI
- You can now force disable/enable animations without changing your system settings
- Skipping to a SponsorBlock highlight now produces a notification allowing you to undo it (#252)
- Premieres are now displayed as premiere instead of just showing the live indicator
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- While watching a video you can now make the card that displays the playlist taller/shorter (#256)
- Subscriptions auto-refresh timers are now persistent. Example: When you close the app with 5 minutes remaining and open the app again 4 minutes later it's at 1 minute remaining
- Added a visual indicator for the auto-refresh
- The subscription feed items are now kept visible while refreshing
- You can now click on a chatter's handle to open their channel from the live chat
- Allow playlist remove actions while playback (#249)
- Mark as watched and remove from history are now two separate actions on videos (#222)
- Add option to move the profile selector to the channels list (#246)
- When a SABR stream encounters a playback error it is now reloaded instead of falling back to legacy formats (max 360p)
- Fixed a bug where a SABR reload would keep the current tab's video on the timestamp where it occurred
- Improved the reliability of the fast-forward silence feature
- Restore the replay icon when the video ended
- Tabs with channels that don't have a preview yet now fall back to the avatar
- Show when comments are edited
- Fixed the position and size of elements in the end screen annotations
- Fixed a bug where scrolling one subscription feed affected the scroll position in the other feeds
- Fix vertical position of texts and elements with certain Unicode characters (#239)

Highlights
- Fixed a critical bug which triggered duplicate auto refreshes across tabs
- Moved the fast-forward through silence toggle to the player settings and changed the setting to be a toggle for it (#236)
- Added an animation for the play/pause button and when muting the volume
- Fixed a bug where the SponsorBlock tooltip icon would lose its color when unskipping, then reskipping
- Add Transcript panel (#237)