@lurch Yes, it’s a YouTube front-end. It suits my purposes because I can listen to my old playlists of game music, etc. (stuff not typically available on streaming music platforms) without having to plow through a thousand ads every hour, but it’s not a competing service to YouTube, per se.

If you want to completely get away from YouTube, I don’t have any personal experience yet, but I’ve heard nice things about the federated video tool, @peertube ! (NewPipe will also integrate with PeerTube.)

@lurch Sure! I went here with my mobile browser and directly downloaded it: https://newpipe.net/#download

I’ve had my phone open to non-Play Store APKs for a long time, so I don’t know if your mileage will vary, but it was pretty painless for me.