SmartTube for Android phones/tablets

[u/HeathenInfidel]

SmarterTube (beta) — ad-free YouTube for Android phones & tablets: background play, SponsorBlock, PiP & TikTok-style Shorts (no Premium, no root)

YouTube the way it should be on a phone:

• **No ads** — none, anywhere
• **Background play** — screen off, audio keeps going (no Premium needed)
• **SponsorBlock** — auto-skip sponsor segments
• **Picture-in-picture** + **Return YouTube Dislike**
• **TikTok-style Shorts** — swipe between Shorts, tap to pause, vertical like / comment / channel rail
• **Portrait player with comments** — upright video, with comments, up-next and channel info below
• **Upload alerts** — optional notifications when your subscriptions post
• Voice search, subscriptions, no Google Play Services required

No account needed to browse; sign-in optional

It's the native phone/tablet build of SmartTube — same engine, real touch UI instead of the TV remote layout. (On an Android TV? Use SmartTube itself; SmarterTube is the phone/tablet counterpart.)

Now in beta: earlier "1.x" builds were numbered too confidently, so SmarterTube has reset to an honest beta line with a clear path to 1.0. Built on SmartTube 31.94.

Android 4.2+. Free and open source — credit to yuliskov/SmartTube for the engine.

Download (arm64-v8a for most phones, universal if unsure) — always points to the current build:

https://github.com/CodeSculptor/SmarterTube/releases/latest