Features

✨ Features

Flow is designed to be a "Top-Grade Viewer," combining ultimate privacy with a rich, professional feature set and a recommendation engine that actually understands you.

🎥 Video Streaming

• High-Quality Playback: Powered by ExoPlayer (Media3).
• Resolution Control: Seamless switching via DASH (Auto, 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p).
• SponsorBlock Integration: Automatically skip sponsorships, intros, outro cards, and filler content to save time.
• DeArrow Integration: Replaces clickbait thumbnails and ALL-CAPS titles with accurate, community-sourced alternatives.
• Casting: Seamlessly cast videos to your Smart TV or supported streaming devices.
• Playback Modes:
  • Fullscreen (Landscape & Portrait support).
  • Picture-in-Picture (PiP): Continue watching while using other apps.
  • Background Playback: Listen to audio with the screen off.
• Advanced Controls:
  • Playback speed control (0.25x - 2x).
  • Video Chapters support with seek jumping.
  • Auto-play next video logic.
• Gesture Controls: Brightness (Left swipe), Volume (Right swipe), and Seek (Double-tap).
• Subtitles System: Full SRT/VTT support with customizable font size, color, and background opacity.

🎵 Music Player

• Dedicated UI: A full-featured music interface separating audio from video.
• Visuals: High-res album art and audio visualizations.
• Queue Management: Add, remove, and reorder tracks on the fly.
• Modes: Shuffle and Repeat (One/All).
• Mini Player: Persistent player bar that follows you across the app.
• Lyrics: Synchronized lyrics display (where available).
• Smart Loading: Fetches tracks from popular artists via YouTube Music backend.

🧠 Search & Discovery (FlowNeuro™ V8 Engine)

• Local AI Engine: A vector-based recommendation system that runs 100% locally on your device. It learns your habits without sending a single byte of telemetry to a server.
• Snowball Fetching (The Rabbit Hole): Uses InnerTube data to traverse related videos, allowing the feed to naturally transition across niches as your interests shift.
• Time-of-Day Context: Understands chronobiology—recommending shorter, fast-paced videos during your morning commute, and longer documentaries or essays at night.
• Dynamic Personas: Categorizes your viewing style (e.g., The Scholar, The Skimmer, The Audiophile) and automatically filters out clickbait or slow pacing based on your mood.
• Session Affinity & Fatigue: Detects when you are binging a specific topic to temporarily boost it, but penalizes topic clustering so your feed never becomes a stagnant echo chamber.
• Smart Scoring: Analyzes video engagement rates (Like-to-View ratios), viral velocity, and description timestamps to surface genuinely high-quality content.

🎨 Themes & Customization

• 11+ Premium Themes:
  • Light / Dark: Standard Material 3 modes.
  • OLED Black: Pure black for AMOLED battery saving.
  • Ocean Blue: Deep sea aesthetics.
  • Forest Green: Nature-inspired.
  • Sunset Orange: Warm gradients.
  • Purple Nebula, Midnight Black, Rose Gold, Arctic Ice, Crimson Red.
• Transitions: Shared-element transitions between screens for a premium, native feel.

📚 Library Management

• Watch History: Local database of watched videos.
• Favorites & Playlists: Bookmark videos and create local playlists.
• Shorts: Dedicated vertical feed with bookmarking capabilities.
• Continue Watching: Resume videos exactly where you left off.

🔒 Privacy & Data Independence

• Zero Tracking: Absolutely no analytics, telemetry, or server-side logging.
• Google-Free & Sideload-Ready: Requires no Google Account to function, built to remain independent and accessible regardless of future Android OS restrictions.
• Data Control:
  • NewPipe Imports: Instantly migrate your watch history and subscriptions from NewPipe to warm up your algorithm.
  • Export/Import Brain: Backup your neural map, history, and preferences to a local file and restore them on any device.
  • Instant Nuke: Clear watch history, search history, or wipe the algorithm's memory instantly.