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What is the advantage to Newpipe? On the PC I know why yt-dlp is king, but as an app?
Newpipe is a very different kind of app. This one is a downloader. You can't watch YouTube videos using it.
Yes, exactly, you can do both with Newpipe. So what is the advantage of this?
Better UI, many more downloading related features and options, probably less trackable connections to YouTube and an ability to download from other websites.
Ah, got it, thank you. Now I just need a source of YouTube links to download on my phone :D
You can use any source you like. You can even use it to check random YouTube links you find in articles and stuff with probably less tracking too (but you might have to modify the links to the standard form).
The quality of the tool. Newpipe is mainly here to watch content. Sure, it has the ability to download said content but not in a granular manner.
Its like climbing mountains in cheap sandals or doing digital paintings in paint. Yt-dlp has a lot of options to get exactly what you want. Seal gives a simple interface which in itself has a bit more than what Newpipe has. The real power of Seal comes from the custom commands. Said commands being the ones you would use in your terminal or scripts using yt-dlp directly without a frontend.
To top it off, Seal can download everything yt-dlp allows you to download. It is not limited to the few sites that Newpipe support.
You can download videos and cut off sponsored moments in the video with sponsorblock.