EchoTube is an open-source Android YouTube client built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, offering fast search, clean playback, and a fully on-device recommendation engine. It runs ad-free, requires no account, and keeps all data local, giving users full control, privacy, and a modern viewing experience.
EchoTube is an open-source Android YouTube client built to feel fast, clean, and fully private. I started working on it because most video apps today are bloated, ad-heavy, and rely heavily on opaque server-side algorithms. I wanted something that gives a great experience without tracking users or locking them into an account.
The core idea is simple: everything should run on your device. EchoTube uses a fully local recommendation system that learns from your watch patterns - like watch time, skips, likes, and searches - without sending any data to a server. Key highlights: • Fast, lightweight UI built with Kotlin + Jetpack Compose • Clean playback with features like PiP, background play, and casting • Smart on-device recommendations (no telemetry, no account) • Ad-free experience with tools like SponsorBlock and DeArrow • Full control over your data - everything stays local
This is v1.0, so there’s still a lot to improve. I’m actively building and would genuinely value your feedback - features, bugs, or even criticism.
If you care about privacy or just want a simpler YouTube experience, I’d love for you to try it and tell me what you think
How is it different than revanced or morphe .software? Also, wondering how you can keep it legal with Youtube? Great that there are more options to use Youtube without ads in general!
Open source YouTube client with privacy focus — does EchoTube route requests through a proxy to avoid YouTube tracking the client IP, or is the privacy mainly around avoiding in-app analytics and ads? Wondering how it handles the YouTube login/auth flow.
It's great that there are no ads. Are you considering releasing an Apple OS version in the future?
"It runs ad-free, requires no account, and keeps all data local, giving users full control." – This is the strongest competitor of YouTube!
About EchoTube on Product Hunt
“Fast, private Open Source YouTube client”
EchoTube launched on Product Hunt on April 20th, 2026 and earned 86 upvotes and 7 comments, placing #18 on the daily leaderboard. EchoTube is an open-source Android YouTube client built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, offering fast search, clean playback, and a fully on-device recommendation engine. It runs ad-free, requires no account, and keeps all data local, giving users full control, privacy, and a modern viewing experience.
EchoTube was featured in Open Source (68.3k followers), GitHub (41.2k followers) and YouTube (16.9k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 34.3k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted EchoTube?
EchoTube was hunted by Aditya Yadav. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Aditya Yadav
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I’m Aditya, the developer behind EchoTube.
EchoTube is an open-source Android YouTube client built to feel fast, clean, and fully private. I started working on it because most video apps today are bloated, ad-heavy, and rely heavily on opaque server-side algorithms. I wanted something that gives a great experience without tracking users or locking them into an account.
The core idea is simple: everything should run on your device. EchoTube uses a fully local recommendation system that learns from your watch patterns - like watch time, skips, likes, and searches - without sending any data to a server.
Key highlights:
• Fast, lightweight UI built with Kotlin + Jetpack Compose
• Clean playback with features like PiP, background play, and casting
• Smart on-device recommendations (no telemetry, no account)
• Ad-free experience with tools like SponsorBlock and DeArrow
• Full control over your data - everything stays local
This is v1.0, so there’s still a lot to improve. I’m actively building and would genuinely value your feedback - features, bugs, or even criticism.
If you care about privacy or just want a simpler YouTube experience, I’d love for you to try it and tell me what you think