PureStream for YouTube

PureStream for YouTube works alongside the YouTube app. It shows each video's chapters, skips the parts you don't want and helps you find what to watch next.

It isn't an ad blocker. It never blocks, mutes or hides ads.

Chapters and skips
• A bar over the video with its chapters and Next and Previous buttons.
• Where a creator hasn't added chapters, PureStream makes them.
• Skip sponsor reads, channel plugs, like-and-subscribe asks, intros, endings and previews. Set each to Off, Ask or Auto.
• Headphone buttons move by chapter.
• Choose the style: Full bar, Icon only or Notification.

Find something to watch
• Search topics and people.
• Discover: new channels by topic and the news, picked on your phone from what you watch and like.
• Discover Playlists, or share a YouTube playlist to PureStream to play it with chapters.

Captions and lyrics (off by default)
• Shown over the video.
• Ask for them when a video doesn't have any yet.

On your TV
• Cast remote: while YouTube casts to a TV, the bar controls the video on the TV.

Your viewing
• History, kept only on your phone (off by default).
• Stats: time skipped and your time on Shorts.

Trust Rating (Preview, off by default)
• Ask from the bar, and PureStream uses AI to check what a video says against public sources like Wikipedia and news sites. Ratings are made by AI and can be wrong.

How it works
PureStream sees what's playing from Android's playback notifications and gets the video's chapters and skips from PureStream's own service. An optional accessibility service, "Read the YouTube screen", reads only the YouTube app. It places the bar so it doesn't cover the video and gets the next video's chapters ready. If you turn on Skip ads (off by default), it presses YouTube's own Skip button when YouTube offers it. The app explains each permission before you grant it.

Privacy
• No account and no sign-in.
• No advertising or analytics code.
• History, captions and lyrics, Trust Rating and timing reports are off by default.
• The privacy policy says what is sent, and the Transparency Report in Settings shows what the app has sent.

Needs the official YouTube app. PureStream for YouTube is not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google.

Screenshots show Big Buck Bunny, © Blender Foundation (blender.org), CC BY 3.0.