Flow (YouTube and YouTube Music Client) v2.2.0 build 17 (FOSS)
Requirements: Android 8 and above
Overview: Most open-source YouTube clients give you playback but no way to discover new content. You either use the official app and get tracked, or you use an alternative and lose recommendations entirely.

Flow gives you both. The recommendation engine learns what you like by analyzing your watch behavior locally. It never leaves your devices. You can inspect everything it knows about you, adjust it, or wipe it at any time.

Most open-source YouTube clients give you playback but no way to discover new content. You either use the official app and get tracked, or you use an alternative and lose recommendations entirely.

Flow gives you both. The recommendation engine learns what you like by analyzing your watch behavior locally. It never leaves your devices. You can inspect everything it knows about you, adjust it, or wipe it at any time.

Features
Video
• High-quality playback via ExoPlayer (Media3) with resolution switching (1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p)
• SponsorBlock — automatically skips sponsors, intros, outros, and filler
• DeArrow — replaces clickbait thumbnails and titles with community-sourced alternatives
• Return Youtube Dislike (RYD)
• Background playback — listen to audio with the screen off
• Picture-in-Picture — keep watching while using other apps
• Casting to smart TVs and streaming devices
• Playback speed control (0.25x to 2x)
• Video chapters with seek jumping
• Gesture controls for brightness, volume, and seeking
• Subtitles with customizable font size, color, and background
• Downloads with VP9, AV1, and standard format support
• Resume playback from where you left off

Music
• Dedicated music player with album art and audio visualizations
• Queue management with add, remove, and reorder
• Shuffle and repeat (single/all)
• Persistent mini player across the app
• Synchronized lyrics display
• Fetches tracks from YouTube Music

Recommendations (FlowNeuro Engine)
• Runs 100% on-device — no server, no telemetry, no account needed
• Learns from what you watch, skip, like, dislike, search for, and how long you watch
• Distinguishes weekday and weekend patterns, morning and night preferences
• Detects when you’re getting bored of a topic and mixes in new content
• Prevents your feed from collapsing into the same 2-3 topics
• Surfaces related videos from your recent watches to create natural topic transitions
• Uses engagement signals (like-to-view ratios) to filter out low-quality content
• Full transparency dashboard — see what the algorithm knows and why it recommended something
• Export/import your entire recommendation profile as a file

Library
• Local watch history
• Favorites and custom playlists
• Shorts feed with bookmarking
• Continue watching shelf
• Subscription management with cached feeds

Privacy
• No Google account required
• No ads, analytics, or tracking
• All data stored locally on your device
• Import subscriptions and history from NewPipe
• Export or delete everything at any time

Appearance
• 11 themes: Light, Dark, OLED Black, Ocean Blue, Forest Green, Sunset Orange, Purple Nebula, Midnight Black, Rose Gold,
• Arctic Ice, Crimson Red
• Built entirely with Jetpack Compose and Material 3

What’s New:
New features
• Add a local media library (play local on-device media)
• Add new logo #605 by @AnharHussainMiah
• Add new music recognizer feature (Based on Metrolist’s implementation see https://github.com/MetrolistGroup/Metrolist)
• Add custom mark as watched threshold settings
• Add bottom navbar scroll events toggle
• Add queue/playlist autoplay toggle
• Add shorts search tab
• Add new video ambient mode
• Add shorts UI customizations
• Add new native local cross-platform sync
• Add default codec selection for downloads #675
• Add hide music artwork option #639
• Add channel sorting options in subscriptions (default, name A–Z, recently updated) #498
• Add new vetrical video fullscreen drag gesture
• Add community posts support
• Add playlist loop and shuffle actions
• Add app widgets

Improvements
• Improve media notification handling #577
• Improve video player settings sheet positioning #572
• Improve double tap seek gesture #520
• Add remove button “X” on continue watching shelf’s cards
• Improve SABR implementation
• Bump NewPipeExtractor to v0.26.3 and set it as primary source with native SABR fallback
• Bump Media3/ExoPlayer to 1.6.1 for more reliable background playback notifications
• Apply default quality settings to live streams #576
• Add a full list of audio languages to the preferred audio language setting #580
• List all available captions, including auto-translated tracks
• Improve AV1 codec handling
• Improve mark as watched percentage
• Add new share context toggle
• Add toggle to show/hide overlay #604
• Add a delay config for autoplay #620
• Improve Emojis handling in live chat #617
• Improve chapters container #588
• Improve player Lock mode #619
• Improve player overlays and icons symmetry #654 #634
• Improve player drawer handling #659
• Update download settings screen’s dialog heights #648
• Add support for all Youtube Music, Piped and Invidious URL formats
• Add comment drawer in landscape #644
• Video Quality selection menu redesign #660
• Improve upcoming videos reminder #470
• Improve volume gesture and rotation handling
• Improve Theme color schemes and add Theme Variants (Light, Dark, AMOLED)
• Refine the subscriptions feed cards to match the home layout #678
• Onboarding screen redesign
• Faster playback startup
• Library screen redesign

Fixes and stability
• Fix crashes from missing media notification provider #578
• Fix missing metadata on some live streams #574
• Fix video player stuck in a 403 retry loop #573
• Fix music audio equalizer settings saving issues
• Fix out-of-memory crashes when refreshing or importing large subscription lists #603
• Fix lag when the bottom navigation bar hides or shows while scrolling
• Fix playback crashes
• Fix missing audio tracks
• Fix “Failed to parse video data” errors
• Fix videos playing in the wrong (AI-dubbed) audio language on some networks by always preferring the original audio track
• Fix missing Shorts metadata
• Fix missing playlist videos metadata
• Fix icon backup crashes
• Fix low-quality thumbnails in the subscriptions feed #678
• Fix custom player brightness leaking into PiP and the rest of the app #679

Engine
• Improve measurements foundation, add evaluation harness and deterministic scorers
• Improve correctness and clean dead interest profile
• Improve signal integrity, ranking and impressions
• Introduce related-graph for improved feed quality
• Improve feed quotas to 40/25/25/10 instead of previous 50/40/10
• Fix scalar relevance dilution
• Improve persona handling, and remove novelty cliff and filter bubble
• Improve engine performance and avoid over-suppression

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More Info:
https://github.com/A-EDev/Flow

Download Instructions:
https://ouo.io/WXbie1

Mirrors:
https://ouo.io/9g0Kp3
https://ouo.io/rXXLJKZ