Rising from the ashes of YouTube Vanced is the ReVanced project, which has seen a major milestone with the release of the ReVanced Manager app. ReVanced came to be after Google went after the original YouTube Vanced app with a cease and desist, resulting in the end of the sideloadable Android app that allowed users to skip sponsors, ads, and other tweaks usually exclusive to the paid YouTube Premium subscription, but for free.

ReVanced does those same things, but exists in the form of an Android app patch, as distributing a pre-patched .apk YouTube client is illegal. Additionally, this project is fully open-source, and you can follow its development on GitHub. Previously, users have been able to use the ReVanced patch, though it required building the patch from the source code. Now, however, the ReVanced Manager has been released, which simply and easily patches the YouTube app. Currently, the manager is in an alpha release, and offers support for patching out timeline ads on Twitter, or general advertisements on the official Reddit app, alongside the primary focus of adding quality of life features to both YouTube and YouTube Music.

This alpha release follows the recent news of YouTube trying out anywhere from 5 to 10 unskippable bumper ads before videos.

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[linuxares]

I do like that new extra dark theme too!
My eyes are pleased since I could finally watch youtube without clogging my entire phone with slowdowns that increment over time while Youtube is running, specifically.

So much I spent hours watching videos last night, browsed, chatted on my phone, and not once Youtube had a hiccup.
Previously I would literally have to force close the app a few times to "refresh" it and run at a reasonable speed for a while, until I had to do it again.
And that's assuming it would not flat out crash onto me, which incidentally would do the same effect as a force close in this case lol

I honestly suspect the Youtube app itself rather than it being Vanced patched. But they ho, you got ReVanced and a more fresh version

 

[Latiodile]

Honestly after my initial issues where the app was crashing on launch due to MicroG stuff I messed up on my side, ReVanced fixed a LOT of the problems I had with the latest version of Vanced personally.
- random video decoding glitches was fixed for good
- more stable, could watch videos and browse for hours and not progressively getting slower and likely to crash
- MUCH snappier and responsive, faster load times, faster buffering and playback
- quality improvements for the videos, now the image is sharper and crisper for me, and the framerate is also smoother when playing back 60fps videos
- background playback isn't as broken as it used to be (but could still get better I think)

i actually haven't had any of these problems with normal vanced, so effectively the only "qol" stuff i'd be getting with this would be the ability to swipe down to refresh the home page again? which imo is a nonissue because i've gotten used to just restarting vanced if i want to refresh the homepage

but these performance problems are probably because i have a reasonable specced phone from a well known manufacturer so idk

 

[VinsCool]

i actually haven't had any of these problems with normal vanced, so effectively the only "qol" stuff i'd be getting with this would be the ability to swipe down to refresh the home page again? which imo is a nonissue because i've gotten used to just restarting vanced if i want to refresh the homepage

but these performance problems are probably because i have a reasonable specced phone from a well known manufacturer so idk

I already had that feature with Vanced, so yeah I don't know anymore really haha.
Still, improvements are nice, even if they aren't necessarily big ones, I like to be updated in this case, sometime it's things that aren't really visible to the end user after all.

 

[Marc_LFD]

Youtube Music with ReVanced Codecs

I love the YT Music (Vanced) app it has the music I like to listen to and the UI doesn't feel outdated (whereas Amazon Music UI's does, imo).

 

[linuxares]

I love the YT Music (Vanced) app it has the music I like to listen to and the UI doesn't feel outdated (whereas Amazon Music UI's does, imo).

Honestly, install with this. It went from "It's decent" to "hey I can listen to this now" When I set the quality to "Always High". Then again, I use Spotify.

 

[AkikoKumagara]

Cool! Different phones etc. I just disabled it in patching and now it works. So no clue!

Oh, I meant I only used with with theme disabled but it's been fine.

I'm on a OnePlus phone as well, tho; Nord N10 5G.

 

[cvskid]

Is there a alternative to this that works on android 7 and below? Revanced requires at least android 8.0 and higher so it won't install on older devices.

 

[linuxares]

Is there a alternative to this that works on android 7 and below? Revanced requires at least android 8.0 and higher so it won't install on older devices.

It's the manager that requires it. If youtube itself supports lower you can manually flash with a prebuilt version, or use one of the many many scripts.

 

[tabzer]

I applied all the available patches except the autoplay one, there was no warning about them not being supported, it's when I choose the app to patch that it told me it wasn't supported, I got my Youtube app from Aurora Store, dunno if that changes anything...

I haven't tried Aurora Store. I got the nodpi Youtube 17.36.37 and it worked for everything I tried but "download". Download option still wants me to upgrade to premium.

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[AkikoKumagara]

I haven't tried Aurora Store. I got the nodpi Youtube 17.36.37 and it worked for everything I tried but "download". Download option still wants me to upgrade to premium.

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You have to use the download button integrated into the video player (which just forwards the download request to Newpipe, it won't work if Newpipe isn't present)

 

[tabzer]

You have to use the download button integrated into the video player (which just forwards the download request to Newpipe, it won't work if Newpipe isn't present)

I downloaded newpipe but youtube is still trying to sell me premium when I hit the download button. Is there a method to binding the action to forward to newpipe that I am unaware of?

 

[wolf-snake]

been fiddling with this for a whole hour... I rather go back to regular Youtube instead of dealing with this. I know i can just go back to back to Vanced but this pissed me off too much that i rather deal with 40 minute "Ads" about a Podcast that i don't care about and Raid Shadow Legends sponsorships.

 

[AkikoKumagara]

I downloaded newpipe but youtube is still trying to sell me premium when I hit the download button. Is there a method to binding the action to forward to newpipe that I am unaware of?

 

[tabzer]

use the download button integrated into the video player

Here I thought you were being redundant for the sake of the other idiots.


(Thank you.)

 

[HalfScoper]

(Tried to read through the thread and see if a suggestion like that was posted already, didn't find any, please excuse if I'm wrong)

A barebone alternative for when any of those managers/patchers/whatever won't work anymore (the NewPipe + Sponsorblock fork is also a nice app-alternative by the way), would be using a browser with extensions enabled, at least on Android; maybe on iPhones with jailbreak, I don't know.

I personally use Kiwi Browser, extensions are:

- SponsorBlock for YouTube
- uBlock Origin
- YouTube BG (I found it on Github a while back, I think I discovered it here https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/issues/60 , idk if it will work in other browsers)

Sure it doesn't let you download but just use a website like y2mate for that, at least I do.

 

[tmnr1992]

Well... this doesnt work at all.

Not sure why people are saying that its working, because it isnt.


I did all the steps, installed the apk that it created... and still i get adds, even after patching.

Did anyone actually got it to work using this?

Nope, I couldn't get it to boot, but I got that message saying something about a split app and that errors might occur before patching.

 

[tabzer]

Nope, I couldn't get it to boot, but I got that message saying something about a split app and that errors might occur before patching.

Get the nodpi version. The multi apkm install won't work.

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/googl...ease/youtube-17-36-37-2-android-apk-download/

 

[Wavy]

I cant get this thing to install at all. I've installed the manager, but when I get to actually patch Youtube, it warns me about using a split APK, whatever that means. But even when it does create the APK, it can't install using Android's built-in package installer, throwing me an "App not installed" error. I've used SmartPack's Package Manager but that doesn't work either as it says "Installation cancelled by user".

I'm getting desperate and really need help. Maybe there's something I'm missing, but I can't for the life of me figure it out.

Quick edit: Might try the Youtube APK above instead. I'll see if that changes anything.

 

[linuxares]

I cant get this thing to install at all. I've installed the manager, but when I get to actually patch Youtube, it warns me about using a split APK, whatever that means. But even when it does create the APK, it can't install using Android's built-in package installer, throwing me an "App not installed" error. I've used SmartPack's Package Manager but that doesn't work either as it says "Installation cancelled by user".

I'm getting desperate and really need help. Maybe there's something I'm missing, but I can't for the life of me figure it out.

Quick edit: Might try the Youtube APK above instead. I'll see if that changes anything.

Don't use "packagers" etc. Just download the proper apk from apkmirror.

 

[Necron]

Was having decoding issues myself and decided to give this a go.

At first the patcher would create an apk and install it (I got the split apk message every time) but that new app wouldn't work, so I reverted to the factory YouTube app, updated microg, installed a nodpi apk of the stock YouTube and that did the trick!

I'll see how this one fares, but it already feels snappier than Vanced did after the discontinuation. Will update soon.