Ad-free YouTube, honestly
fyta plays YouTube by fetching the video stream itself — so there's no pre-roll, no mid-roll, and no ad standing between you and play. It's not another "skip" hack that breaks every week. There's just nothing there to skip.
Free · No account · Nothing to sign into · Watch in any browser, or install the Android app and the Chrome extension
The honest part
Nobody actually minds an ad they can scroll past. What people can't stand are the ones that interrupt the video, force sound, or block you before you can even start. fyta removes exactly those — and keeps only the quiet kind.
The trick fyta kills: if you don't tap "skip," YouTube plays you a second ad — betting you glanced away. fyta just plays the video. No skipping, no waiting, no punishment for not paying attention to an ad.
What you get
fyta resolves the raw video stream instead of loading YouTube's ad-serving player. There are no ads in the video to skip — so nothing breaks when YouTube changes how it serves them.
Lock your phone, switch apps, drop it in your pocket — audio keeps playing, with lock-screen controls. The thing every "skip ads" app fails at.
Built-in SponsorBlock automatically jumps the in-video "this video is brought to you by…" reads — the sponsorships baked into the content that ad-blocking alone can't touch.
Import your real subscriptions from a Google Takeout export. No Google login, no OAuth, nothing that can be revoked — the channels just show up.
No account, ever. Your watch history, likes, and follows live only on your device and never leave it.
Pick your resolution, change playback speed, autoplay the next video, resume where you left off, and open any YouTube link straight into fyta.
Get fyta
fyta lives outside the app stores by design — a store can pull an app overnight, and we'd rather you have a copy that keeps working. Installing takes one extra tap of "allow."
Web — nothing to install
Open fyta.cannappy.org in any browser and paste or search for a video. That's the whole setup.
One click from YouTube
Install the “Watch on fyta” browser extension and a button appears on every YouTube video — tap it to jump straight into fyta’s clean, sponsor-skipping player.
How to install (Chrome, Edge, Brave)
Download the file above and unzip it.
Open chrome://extensions — copy and paste it into your address bar, since browsers don’t allow direct links to that page.
Turn on Developer mode (top-right toggle).
Click Load unpacked and select the fyta-extension folder.
Open any YouTube video — a “Watch ad-free on fyta” button appears.
Android
Download the APK from the latest release, then open it.
If Android asks, allow installs from this source — it's a one-time toggle.
Open fyta and start watching. Optionally import your subscriptions from the "You" tab.
iPhone & iPad
iOS doesn't allow this kind of app in the App Store, so fyta installs by sideloading (e.g. AltStore / SideStore).
Follow the iOS install guide on the releases page. Heads-up: on iOS, playback tops out around 360p — an Apple-side limitation of how the streams decode.
Why isn't it on the Play Store or App Store? Because it's the honest version of what you want — and the stores don't allow apps that strip YouTube's ads. Downloading it directly is the trade-off for an app that actually does the job and doesn't answer to a store that can delete it.
Questions
Yes. No subscription, no paywall, no "premium to remove ads." The only ads are the occasional card in the feed you scroll past — never in the player.
No. fyta works fully anonymously — search, play, history, likes, and follows all work without signing into anything. If you want your real subscriptions, you import them from a Google Takeout file; you still never sign in.
The app itself collects nothing — your history, likes, and follows stay on your device. The one exception is the feed ads, served by Google AdMob, which use an advertising identifier like ads in most free apps do.
fyta plays the actual video stream rather than fighting YouTube's ad system, so it doesn't break the way "auto-skip" apps do. When YouTube shifts something under the hood, the app updates — grab the latest release.
The APK is the same app, just delivered directly instead of through a store. Android will ask you to allow installing it — that's the standard prompt for any app from outside the Play Store, not a warning that something's wrong.