What’s new
- Start downloads, scheduling, or playlist additions directly from YouTube search results.
- Choose video or audio when starting or continuing a playlist. Audio mode now uses completed local downloads, continues across playlist tracks, and has improved iOS lock-screen playback and buffering.
- Added Direct stream as a remote-player option: play a compatible video through YT Zero without creating a download. It can also take over when the YouTube embed is unavailable.
- Local-player subtitles now show only tracks actually available for the video, with sensible language fallbacks.
- Added video bookmarks with timestamps and notes.
Improvements
- New videos that need importing now show a loading state before the selected player is ready.
- YouTube pages and search metadata now follow the app language, including improved localized count and date parsing.
- Reduced unnecessary YouTube traffic with backoff for Shorts classification and temporary address-level refusals.
- General performance and build-loading improvements.