MeeTube 3.2.0 Rebirth

MeTube is now MeeTube: downloads up to 4K, GlowFlow everywhere

📅 2026-10-28 · closes #47, #71, #74, #75, #76, #77, #90, #91, #94, #98, #99 and #101

📣 MeTube is now MeeTube

• A new name, a new app. MeTube is reborn as MeeTube, with a new app id (io.yash.meetube). Android sees it as a different app, so MeeTube installs as a separate app next to MeTube instead of updating it.
• Install MeeTube, then uninstall the old MeTube. Sign in again in MeeTube and set your settings once; the old app keeps its own and gets no more updates.
• Your old downloads stay where they were, in Movies/MeTube and Music/MeTube. New ones go to Movies/MeeTube and Music/MeeTube.
• A new default icon. The red heart on a white tile is MeeTube's icon now. The painted heart is still there as Fantasy, and Classic too, in Settings > Customization > App icon.

✨ New

• Downloads up to 4K. Save videos in 1440p and 4K as well as up to 1080p. YouTube serves those only as VP9, so MeeTube fetches the best VP9 video and Opus audio and joins them into one WebM file on your phone. Up to 1080p stays MP4 (#94).
• Save downloads where you like. Pick any folder on your phone in Settings, or long press Download on the watch page. If the folder stops being writable, downloads go to the default one again (#75).
• Open in folder. A download's menu opens its folder in your file manager.
• GlowFlow, a glow that moves with you. Light now flows through the whole app:
  • Tab glow. A soft glow sits behind the lit tab and slides to the next one as you switch, changing colour on the way. Pick White, Tab colors (each tab its own colour) or Accent (MeeTube red) in Settings > Customization > Tab glow, or turn it off (#47).
  • Progress glow. The played part of every progress line glows at its head and ends round: the player's seek bar, the cards' watched line, the mini player and Shorts. Settings > Customization > Progress glow turns it off.
  • Counts that run up. A short's counts run up from zero the first time it shows.
• Drag along the bottom bar. Slide your finger along the bar: the glass lens follows it with a tick per tab, and the tab you let go on opens (#90).
• Swipe a video out of History. Swipe a card sideways to remove it from your watch history (#71).
• Player lock. In fullscreen, a lock button shuts out every swipe, tap, pinch and double tap; tap to show the unlock button. Hide it in Customization > Player buttons (#98).
• Choose your player buttons. Settings shows or hides each of the player's buttons (#76).
• A transcript that follows the video. For a video with captions, Transcript in the player menu opens a searchable sheet that follows playback; tap a line to jump there.
• A richer description. The description sheet ends with the channel, its transcript and the video's details.
• Two watch page looks. Compact puts the actions beside Subscribe and shows top comments one by one; Classic keeps the old layout. In Compact, Subscribe turns into the app's mark while you swipe the actions.
• Up next chips. All and From the channel chips over the Up next list (#74).

🛠️ Changed

• A glass loading spinner. A thin white arc on a frosted glass disc replaces the red spinner (#77).
• Pull to refresh pops. A light haptic and a soft two-note pop, silent when your phone is on silent or vibrate.
• Up next follows your video layout, Cards or List, and a list refreshes with row placeholders instead of cards (#91).
• Menus with icons. Every action in a video's or channel's menu has its icon, with a rounded highlight like YouTube's.
• A smaller time pill on the player.
• A smoother Subscribe morph when you swipe the watch page actions.
• Shorts keep coming. The Shorts tab fetches its next page well before you reach the end.

🐛 Fixed

• The mini player grows from where you dragged it, and square or vertical videos no longer stretch on the way (#99).
• Pausing from outside shows the controls. Unplugging earphones, a headset button or another app's sound now brings the controls up so you can see it is paused (#101).
• A paused video comes back playable after Android closes the app in the background.
• A double tap jump moves the progress bar at once.
• The subscriber count is never cut short on the Compact watch page.
• The mini player lands above the channel page's bar instead of jumping up from under it.
• The You tab no longer flashes the last page while it fades in.

✅ Issues resolved

Issue	Asked for	In 3.2.0
#47	A colour bloom on the selected tab	Tab glow: White, Tab colors or Accent
#71	Side swipe on the History page	Swipe a card to remove it
#74	Topic chips while watching	All and From the channel chips on Up next
#75	Long press Download to save to phone storage	Long press picks the download folder
#76	Customizable player controls	Show or hide each player button
#77	A glass loading spinner	A white arc on frosted glass
#90	A better navigation bar	Drag along the bar to switch tabs
#91	Refresh shows cards in List layout	Row placeholders for lists
#94	4K downloads	1440p and 4K downloads
#98	A player lock	Lock button in fullscreen
#99	Mini player grow animation	Grows from the card, no stretch
#101	Show controls after an outside pause	Controls come up on any pause