MeeTube 3.2.1 Sublime

Shorts that open instantly, a SponsorBlock skip pill, transcripts for songs without lyrics

📅 2026-10-28 · closes #84, #103, #104, #105, #106, #107, #108 and #109

✨ New

• SponsorBlock skip pill. A sponsor or other skippable segment shows a small Skip pill on the player while the video plays on; tap it to jump past the segment.
• Transcript when there are no lyrics. A song without lyrics opens its transcript in the Lyrics panel, which says lyrics aren't available. Transcript is also the last choice in the lyrics provider list.
• Watch Shorts in the normal player. A short's More menu has Watch in normal player, which opens it in the regular player with Up next (#108).
• New to you and Continue watching. Up next chips that split the related videos into ones you haven't seen and ones you started (#104, #105).
• Picture-in-picture when you leave, your choice. Settings > Playback > Picture-in-picture: off, leaving the app with a video playing goes on as audio. The player menu still opens picture-in-picture (#103).
• Shorts in History. History lists the Shorts you watched, and a tapped one plays in the Shorts player with your other watched Shorts.
• A rest nudge. After half an hour of swiping Shorts, MeeTube suggests a break.
• Built in public. About and the README link to the workflow that builds every release.

🛠️ Changed

• Shorts open instantly from the tab, like Search. The bottom bar slides away and stays away while Shorts is up (#107).
• Slide down to close Shorts. Back slides the player down off the screen, with the tab you came from already beneath it.
• One neon ring loader. A cyan to magenta glow ring is the loader on every page, sheet and button.
• Up next chips are glass pills like Search's.
• A tidier watch page. The page moves with a tall video on the same frame, and the action pills line up right after Subscribe (#106).
• One place for video quality. The Video format row is gone from Settings; every format is in the player's quality sheet.

🐛 Fixed

• Skipping no longer stops playback with SABR streaming, and a SABR failure picks up the video over DASH where it was instead of stopping (#109).
• Tapping a channel in Channels no longer swaps the list for its uploads, which then stayed after Back (#84).
• No empty strip above the Lyrics and Transcript panels. The panels' handle sits right under the video again.