Electric Eel is a fork of SmartTube, and a free and open-source media client for Android TVs and TV boxes.
- Ability to control Home rows and their order
- Ability to add Subscriptions and individual subscribed channels as Home rows
- Ability to create non-local YouTube playlists again, but requires you to create a YouTube channel in each YouTube account
- Ability to move local playlists to YouTube
- Ability to autoplay music videos without autoplaying non-music videos
- Frame by frame forward playback support
- Quick toggles
- Ability to exclude channels from individual hidden video types
- Ability to mute words censored in YouTube auto-captions
- Ability to re-order YouTube clients
- Ability to hide or mark various video types like Collabs, Watch later, Streamed, Live, etc
- Ability to import and export playlists
- Filtering of channels via AiSList's lists
- Hide shorts checkboxes for Sports, Live, "My videos", Gaming, News and Music
- Hide videos older than setting with period, sections and quick toggle
- Videos once marked as "Not interested" disappear in every row
- "Don't recommend channel" and "Not interested" are available in Gaming, Music, Sports, etc now
- Settings are per account
- Apply to copy all settings from one account to another
- Refactored Settings to use more cards
- Keyword filtering that hides videos by the words in their titles
- Full-screen word picker for keywords and a Hide words item to the context menu
- Blocking videos in different sections by category
- "My videos" includes a rows section with a Shorts row after the videos
- View release notes with rendered markdown and images in app
- Clean interface
- SponsorBlock integration
- Adjustable playback speed
- 8K resolution support
- 60fps playback
- HDR compatibility
- View live chat
- Customizable buttons
- Does not require Google Services
- Helpful international community
- Not supported on phones and tablets
- Comment functionality is unstable
- Voice search and casting performance may be inferior to official apps, depending on your device
- Nvidia Shield Pro 2019 (3gb RAM, 16gb storage, WiFi 802.11ac, Gigabit Ethernet)
- FireTV Stick 4K MAX Gen2 (2gb RAM, 16gb storage, WiFi 6E)
- Onn 4k Pro (3gb RAM, 32gb storage, WiFi 6, 10/100 Ethernet)
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Important
Starting in October 2025 new Amazon FireTV devices no longer run Android under the hood. Electric Eel will not be compatible with the Fire Stick 4k Select and newer devices which run Amazon's own VegaOS.
- Supported: all Android TVs and TV boxes (incl. All FireTV devices released before Oct. 2025, NVIDIA Shield & Chromecast with Google TV), even older ones with Android 7.0 (Nougat).
- Not supported: Smartphones, non-Android platforms like Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Apple TV, etc.
The recommend method of installation the first time is to use LocalSend.
Downloader codes
2566384 ElectricEel_stable_32.68.5_arm64-v8a.apk
3574784 ElectricEel_stable_32.68.5_armeabi-v7a.apk
You can install Discoverium, and then install Electric Eel via it.
Discoverium now has Android TV support.
Certain content filtering features require the YouTube Data API, and using it requires a personal key. The
ydakc command line tool allows you to create one after logging into your Google account.
See YDAKC.
The app has a built-in updater. You only need to follow the installation procedure once. A few seconds after launching Electric Eel, it will notify you if there is any update and also show a changelog. You can disable automatic update checks or manually update in the settings under Settings | Updates.
If the installation fails, either your disk space is full or the update didn't download correctly; clear up space and try updating again (Settings > Updates > Check for updates).
Electric Eel requires Android 4.3 or above. It does not work on non-Android devices (incl. LG or Samsung TVs). On unsupported TVs, you can use a TV stick or TV box. Though this app technically runs on smartphones and tablets, it is not optimized for such and offers no official support!
It has been successfully tested on TVs, TV boxes and TV sticks that are based on Android, including:
- Android TVs & Google TVs (e.g. Philips, Sony)
- Chromecast with Google TV & TVs with Chromecast built-in
- Amazon FireTV stick (all generations)
- NVIDIA Shield
- TV boxes running Android (many cheap chinese no-name boxes)
- Xiaomi Mi Box
Electric Eel includes optional SponsorBlock integration. From the SponsorBlock website:
SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos. [...] the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about using a privacy preserving query system. It also supports skipping other categories, such as intros, outros and reminders to subscribe [and non-music parts in music videos].
You can select which categories you want to skip in the settings. Unlike the browser addon, in Electric Eel you cannot submit new segments (TVs and TV remotes aren't great devices for such precise operations). Note that SponsorBlock is a free and voluntary project based on user submissions, so don't expect it to 100% work every time. Sometimes, sponsor segments are not yet submitted to the database, sometimes the SponsorBlock servers are offline/overloaded.
You can report in our Telegram group or via issue tracker on Github (account required).
