SailReel
Stream and download YouTube video on Sailfish OS.
A native Sailfish Silica app for searching, streaming, and downloading video from YouTube. Search, browse channels and playlists, read comments, and play video in-app with full media controls (MPRIS-integrated — lock-screen and Bluetooth controls work). Download videos straight to your device's Videos folder via the system Transfer Engine.
All YouTube access goes through yt-dlp, a standalone binary the app downloads and manages itself (Settings → yt-dlp) — never bundled or auto-run without your say-so. This keeps YouTube support independent of app releases, so fixes can land the moment upstream yt-dlp patches, without waiting on a SailReel update. The yt-dlp binary is downloaded from GitHub Releases and verified against its published SHA-256 checksum before install.
Built for aarch64 (Xperia 10 II/III and other 64-bit ARM devices) and armv7hl (older 32-bit ARM devices).
This is a fork of flypig's harbour-newpipe (upstream on Codeberg, packaged there as harbour-sailpipe / "SailPipe"), renamed to avoid clashing if both are installed. Most of the code in this fork was written by AI coding agents — worth knowing if you're deciding how much to trust it with your accounts or data.
Source: https://github.com/shano/harbour-sailreel
License: GPLv3
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| Attachment | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|
 harbour-sailreel-0.7.2-1.armv7hl.rpm | 524.61 KB | 24/08/2026 - 20:58 |
| harbour-sailreel-0.7.2-1.aarch64.rpm | 542.53 KB | 24/08/2026 - 20:58 |
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dumol
Mon, 2026/08/24 - 13:56
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On 32bit devices, it downloads the 64bit release of yt-dlp. I've managed to make it work by manually unpacking the armv7l package at .local/share/io.github .shano/harbour-sailreel/yt-dlp/. Thanks!
shano
Mon, 2026/08/24 - 20:58
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Good spot! I've (hopefully) pushed up a fix with the latest version. If you get a chance to test it, do let me know if it works. Thanks!