Subscriptions & playlists

Subscriptions are stored locally in WizeStream. Following a channel does not subscribe your Google account, notify the uploader or require a platform login. Your local feed depends on the channel information the selected service makes available.

Follow channels and make groups

Open a supported channel and select Subscribe.
Open your subscriptions to organize the channel into a group.
Use groups to separate interests such as Music, Technology or Study.
Open What’s New to see the subscription feed for the chosen scope.

Subscriptions and feed groups are scoped to the active local profile. Grouping is useful within a profile; separate profiles also isolate library data such as history and playlists. See profiles and synchronization.

Understand the feed scope

The What’s New toolbar can change the selected channel group and service scope. Switching groups uses cached feed data rather than automatically requesting every channel again. A publication-date cutoff and content/watch-state filters can further narrow the displayed results.

Control	What to check when an item is missing
Group	Is the channel in the selected group?
Service	Are you showing its platform or all supported platforms?
Content type	Are Videos, Shorts, Live or other types hidden?
Watch state	Does an unwatched or partially watched filter exclude it?
Date cutoff	Is the upload older than the selected cutoff?
Blocking	Is a video, channel, keyword or membership rule hiding it?

Feeds are not unlimited historical archives. A refresh can improve freshness without guaranteeing that every older channel upload is collected.

Refresh and notifications

Refresh manually when you want to check for new content. Progressive refresh can show updates as they arrive instead of waiting for every channel to finish. Refresh all now bypasses the ordinary refresh threshold.

Channel notification settings can control frequency, network conditions and title keywords. Android can delay scheduled background work, particularly when the app is battery-restricted or the device is offline. A permission or scheduling limit is different from unsubscribing.

Playlists and organization

Local playlists belong to your WizeStream library. Remote bookmarks point to service-hosted playlists; those playlists can change independently. Categories, named separators and bulk actions help organize larger collections.

Use Edit mode for multi-selection and bulk actions. Where enabled, swipe-to-remove in a local playlist’s Edit mode offers Undo. Review the selected scope before a bulk move or unsubscribe action.

Smart playlists and saved searches

Smart playlists work with content already indexed from feeds, playlists and history. Rules can consider watched state, duration, title keywords, channels and Learning content. Refresh feeds to discover new uploads before expecting them to match a rule.

The current implementation allows up to 50 rule sets per profile and previews up to 1,000 newest matches. A smart playlist is not a server-side search over the entirety of YouTube or another platform.

Saved searches preserve reusable discovery criteria and cached results. They are useful alongside subscriptions when you want to revisit a topic rather than follow one channel.

Content controls

Long-press a video to block the video or its channel. Settings → Content → Blocked content contains local rules and controls. Optional advanced regular expressions and comment filters provide more precise matching; these are local filters, not reports sent to a platform.

If a public upload is still missing after checking filters and refreshing, include its public video URL, channel URL, installed WizeStream version and feed scope in a bug report. Never attach a private backup database to a public issue without reviewing its contents.

Project references

Reviewed against the documented development snapshot. Documentation links follow the current repository paths; code links use the reviewed snapshot. Check the release notes for installed-build availability.