Unofficial · GPL-3.0 · Android

MeTube Mobile

Two Android apps for a self-hosted MeTube server — the yt-dlp web downloader you already run on your NAS or homelab. Share a link from your phone, and either keep the file on the server and stream it, or pull it to the device and let the server clean itself up.

Download the APKs Source on GitHub

Listed in MeTube's own README, under Sending links to MeTube. There is no Play Store build, because Play does not allow this category.

The MeTube Super library: server items with covers, favourites, a tag filter and the mini player

A look inside

Every title, channel and cover below is invented for these screenshots; no real server or account appears in them.

Streaming a video from the server, with actions and the up-next queue beneath it
Stream from your serverSave to the phone, continue as audio, share, with the queue beneath.
The audio player: cover art, a seek bar, shuffle, speed and the queue
A real audio playerBackground playback, lock-screen controls, speed and shuffle.
Playlists: three automatic lists above the user's own, each with a cover mosaic
PlaylistsFavourites, latest and offline build themselves; yours sit beneath.
The up-next queue at night, with durations and the item now playing
Up next, at nightA full night palette, not a half-dark screen.
Four library items selected, with actions for playlist, tag and delete
Batch actionsSelect many: add to a playlist, tag, or delete from the server.
One playlist with play all, shuffle and audio-only buttons
Play all, or just listenAny playlist plays as video or as audio only.
The shorts player showing a portrait clip with details, add-to and share
A lane for portrait clipsSwipe through short vertical videos, full screen.

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Which app is for you

MeTube Lite

For family and friends who just want the file.

After a download
Pulls the file to the phone, then removes it from the server.
Library
What is on the phone.
Playback
Local files.
Also has
A Wi-Fi-only rule for limited data, and it finishes at the next launch what a killed app could not.

MeTube Super

For the person who runs the server.

After a download
Keeps everything on the server.
Library
The server's history and the phone's files, merged into one.
Playback
Streams from the server, and plays local files.
Also has
Tags, batch downloads, make available offline, a server card that says what the server holds and runs, and two addresses it switches between.

They are separate apps and install side by side.

MeTube Lite, start to finish

Share a link from any app. The server downloads it, the phone pulls the file, and the server is cleared — so a shared family server does not fill up.

  • Links from Android's share sheet, even from a cold start, and several at once.
  • A four-stage pipeline — add, follow, pull, clean — with live progress and a cancel that leaves nothing behind.
  • Reaches the server at home or through a tunnel, and can hold downloads to Wi-Fi.
The MeTube Lite library by day
By day
The MeTube Lite library at night
At night
A link is shared to MeTube Lite, the server downloads it, the phone pulls the file, and the server is cleaned up
Twenty seconds, invented demo data.

Shared by both

No server yet?

These are clients: they download nothing by themselves. Every file is fetched by your own MeTube server, and that server runs anywhere Docker runs — a PC, a NAS, a Raspberry Pi:

docker run -d -p 8081:8081 \
  -v /path/on/your/disk/downloads:/downloads \
  -e DELETE_FILE_ON_TRASHCAN=true \
  ghcr.io/alexta69/metube

Then point the app at that address. Four server settings change how the apps behave, and the absence of each looks like a defect in the app; they are listed, with the symptom each one causes, in the server setup guide.

Links

بالعربية

تطبيقان لأندرويد لسيرفر MeTube الذي تستضيفه بنفسك. شارك الرابط من جوالك، ثم إما أن يبقى الملف على السيرفر فتشغّله بثّاً، أو يُسحب إلى جهازك ويُنظَّف السيرفر تلقائياً.

MeTube Super بالعربية: المكتبة، ومشغل الفيديو مع قائمة التالي، ومشغل الصوت ليلاً، وقوائم التشغيل
الواجهة العربية من اليمين إلى اليسار. كل عنوان وغلاف هنا مخترَع.

MeTube Lite

للعائلة والأصدقاء: يريدون الملف فقط.

بعد التنزيل
يسحب الملف إلى الجوال ثم يحذفه من السيرفر.
المكتبة
ما هو على الجوال.
التشغيل
الملفات المحلية.
وفيه أيضاً
قصر التنزيل على Wi-Fi، وإكمال ما لم يكتمل عند الفتح التالي.

MeTube Super

لمالك السيرفر.

بعد التنزيل
يُبقي كل شيء على السيرفر.
المكتبة
سجلّ السيرفر وملفات الجوال في مكتبة واحدة.
التشغيل
بثّ من السيرفر، وتشغيل محلي.
وفيه أيضاً
وسوم، وتنزيل دفعات، و«إتاحة دون اتصال»، وبطاقة تعرض ما على السيرفر ونسخته، وعنوانان بتبديل تلقائي.

لا تملك سيرفراً؟ التطبيقان لا ينزّلان شيئاً بنفسيهما: سيرفر MeTube هو من ينزّل، وهو يعمل بأمر Docker واحد على أي كمبيوتر أو راسبيري باي — والأمر مكتوب في الأعلى. ثم وجّه التطبيق إلى عنوانه.

تنزيل الملفات · المصدر على GitHub · دليل إعداد السيرفر

طوّره Yasir Sagheer، والأسئلة والبلاغات في صفحة Issues بالعربية أو الإنجليزية.