Is LibreTube safe?

LibreTube is an alternative frontend for YouTube, focusing on user privacy and better watching experience. It doesn't require any YouTube account or Google Services installed on your device. In comparison to YouTube, LibreTube has some additional features like SponsorBlock, DeArrow, Subscription Groups, Playlist bookmarks, and many more. Apart from that, you can subscribe to channels and create p…

Developer: Team LibreTube
Category: Internet
Earliest archived version: 23 Aug 2026
License: GPL-3.0-or-later (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

23 Aug 2026

32.1

This release fixes the recent video playback issues and that playlists contain no videos. To overcome the video playback issues, we implemented YouTube's new, custom streaming protocol (called SABR). YouTube started to progressively remove support for traditional streaming protocols, so LibreTube's…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.github.libretube

Latest APK SHA-256792b1e37e7bd6a26d8da1c826a68677465c333633cb2198224cc96c84257d615

Signing certificateA8:66:31:E8:CC:55:58:38:E8:DF:C2:90:19:FB:0F:7D:AC:33:3E:F1:CD:A1:13:9C:42:4D:1A:08:D6:8A:03:0B

MIN ANDROID26TARGET36ARCHITECTURE

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

1 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

32.123 Aug 202626+→

05 / Safety & access

Safety verdict

Authentic — file hash matches the source indexNo ads or tracking flagged by the source

IntegritySHA-256 verified vs source

SourceBinary repo · fdroid

Permissions9 declared · 0 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNonFreeNet

Sensitive accessNo sensitive permissions

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED android.permission.WAKE_LOCK com.github.libretube.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

Tracker status: Not assessed by WIKI for Android.

06 / Sources

Evidence ledger

Each entry is a captured public reference backing this record.

RepositorySource package page↗Source codeSource repository↗