Playlet
Playlet is an unofficial Youtube client for Roku 📺
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Installation
Features
- 🔥 No Ads (Not now, not ever)
- 🕵️ No Tracking
- 🛡️ Privacy driven (uses Invidious backend)
- ⚔️ SponsorBlock integration (skips undesirable sections in videos)
- 📱 Browse, search, and cast from phone using the web app
- 🔮 Picture-in-picture mode
- ⚡ Fast! Check out how we compare with the official Youtube app
Cast from phone
- Open "Web app" tab in Playlet
- Scan QR Code with Phone
- Browse or search videos
- Click the video and choose the "Play on TV" option
Picture-in-picture
- When viewing a video in full screen, press ⬇️ (down) button on your remote to shrink the video
- You can browse or search for videos while you watch
- To restore currently playing video to full screen, press the ✳️ (options) button
Customize Invidious instance
- Open settings in Playlet
- Select Invidious -> Instance
- Set a custom instance, or choose a public one hosted by volunteers (from https://api.invidious.io/)
- Optionally, Select
Test instanceto make sure it works - Hit save
ℹ️ Note: If you are logged in when you change the instance, you will remain logged in to the old instance. In this case, Playlet will use the old instance to retrieve your subscriptions and your playlists, but will use the new instance for everything else. After switching to a new instance, you can log out and log in again to use your profile on the new instance.
Development
For everything related to Playlet app development, please see the documentation
Analytics and reporting
We do not collect any usage data, anonymous or not. But Roku does, and you can find the data made available to Playlet in the Wiki. Most software in the wild collect some data to make sure things work, and to prioritize features. Because we don't do that, we wouldn't know if people using Playlet are facing issues, unless these issues get reported. Playlet could run on variaty of devices, with different capabilities and screen sizes, and different Invidious instances. That's why it's important to report any issues you encouter using Playlet, otherwise it's unlikely that they get addressed.
Why Playlet
playlet - noun
play•let /ˈplālət/
: a short play
Playlet is about keeping the time you spend on Youtube short and useful. It values your time, so it does not show you ads, and allows you to skip sponsored sections and other irrelevant information that's designed to monitize you and/or waste your time.
There's a cliché about how a lot of open source software is "Made with ♡". This project in particular is not.
Playlet was created out of spite, because I believe I have watched enough back-to-back, unskippable Youtube ads for a lifetime.
By removing all the bloat, the ads, the tracking, we could end up with an even faster app than the official one.
In any case, I hope you find Playlet useful, and pleasant to use.
Disclaimer
Playlet does not serve or distribute any material from unauthorized sources.
Playlet is simply a frontend to other systems (such as Invidious), bringing the watching experience to the TV, as opposed to the existing frontends that are web and mobile focused.