Table of contents:
- Float Tube, the best app to put YouTube in a pop-up window
- Minimizer for YouTube Classic if we want to listen to music in the background
- Minimize to play on YouTube in the background (that's the name of the app)
- Float Tube Multitasking, with floating bubbles for watching videos
- BaroTube, one more alternative to watch videos in a small window
The wet dream of anyone who uses YouTube on Android is to play videos in a floating window like Google Chrome already does on PC. As part of the company's commercial strategy, this feature has been reserved for the paid version of the platform, YouTube Premium. The good news is that there are many free applications for Android that allow us to put YouTube in a floating window without root or complex methods. The other good news is that all these applications are in the Google store, so we do not have to use alternative markets.
Float Tube, the best app to put YouTube in a pop-up window
And it's not something that just me says. Currently the application accumulates more than 100,000 downloads on the Play Store, with a score of 4.1 stars out of 5. Its operation compared to YouTube is practically identical. In fact, the application embeds the web version of YouTube to provide us with an interface modeled on that of the Google platform. Although its greatest advantage is that it allows you to enable the pop-up window from the YouTube application itself by clicking on the Share button. In this way, we will not have to access the Float Tube application if we do not want to lose the advantages of YouTube.
Minimizer for YouTube Classic if we want to listen to music in the background
This application comes as a mix that combines several of the paid functions of YouTube Premium. On the one hand, Minimizer for YouTube Classic allows us to put the videos in a small window on the phone, either in the form of a player or in the form of a floating application, with a window system very similar to that of Samsung with One UI. On the other hand, the application is capable of keeping the videos playing in the background even with the screen off, which is especially useful if we are going to listen to a music playlist within the platform.
Minimize to play on YouTube in the background (that's the name of the app)
As its name indicates, it is an application that allows us to minimize YouTube playback to view videos in the background. Like the previous option, the application allows us to continue playing the videos as if it were a music player, with a very similar operation to applications such as Spotify or Google Play Music. In fact, it has a built-in player like the tools we just mentioned. The advantage is that the energy consumption is reduced, as well as the consumption of resources (RAM, processor…).
Float Tube Multitasking, with floating bubbles for watching videos
This application inherits the Float Tube philosophy by inserting the web version of YouTube with the occasional addition. And it is that in addition to allowing us to put YouTube videos in a floating window, the tool is capable of storing the player in a small bubble that we can move and activate to our liking to continue playing. It also has a data saving mode that allows us to change the quality when playing the videos both inside and outside the application.
BaroTube, one more alternative to watch videos in a small window
The last option comes with an idea practically traced to that of Float Tube with a more polished interface if possible. In addition to allowing us to put the videos in a pop-up window, it has a dark mode that adapts to OLED screens and an auto-skip function that allows you to close the ads as they are played in the application when using the web version of YouTube.
