Android app · free · open source

Clean Tube

YouTube without Shorts. Clean Tube opens YouTube and removes the Shorts shelves, the Shorts tab and Shorts links, so you watch the video you came for and then stop.

PC / iPhone: coming soon How to install

Why it exists

Shorts are built to be swiped endlessly. Each swipe is a small, unpredictable reward, which is why one quick look turns into an hour. Clean Tube takes the swipe away and leaves normal, long videos, search and your subscriptions.

What it does

Hides Shorts shelves

Removes the Shorts rows from Home, Subscriptions, Search and suggested videos.

Removes the Shorts tab

The bottom-bar Shorts button is hidden, so there is nothing to tap by habit.

Redirects Shorts links

A shared Shorts link takes you to the YouTube home page instead of a swipe feed.

No account, no tracking

The app has no server, no analytics and no ads. It only runs a small filter on the YouTube page.

How it works

Clean Tube is a small Android app that shows the YouTube mobile site in a built-in browser view. On every page it injects a short script that hides Shorts elements and watches for new ones as the page loads. Navigation to a /shorts/ address is blocked and sent to the home page. Because it filters what is on screen, a change in YouTube's page layout can let some Shorts through until the filter is updated.

Install on your phone

Tap Download APK on your Android phone.
Open the downloaded clean-tube.apk on your Android phone. If Android asks, allow your browser to install unknown apps.
Tap Install, then open Clean Tube.

Requires Android 8.0 or newer. Only install APKs from sources you trust; this file is built from the open source code linked above. Clean Tube is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC.

Privacy

Clean Tube collects nothing and sends nothing to CodeProven. Sign-in, cookies and watch history are handled by YouTube inside the app, exactly as in a browser.