Where Does FreeTube Store Subscriptions and History?
FreeTube's local database folder on Windows, Mac and Linux, and which .db file holds what.
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FreeTube never phones home with your watch data because there is no account. Subscriptions, playlists, settings and history all sit as plain .db files in one local folder per OS.
That makes migration trivial. Copy the folder to a new machine and every subscription and playlist reappears. The filenames are literal: profiles.db, settings.db, playlists.db, history.db and search-history.db.
Where FreeTube stores this, by platform
%APPDATA%\FreeTube
Holds profiles.db for subscriptions, settings.db for prefs, playlists.db for saved videos, history.db for watch history. Copy the whole folder with FreeTube closed.
~/Library/Application Support/FreeTube
Same .db set as Windows. Open via Finder Go to Folder. Portable installs keep data beside the app instead, so check there if this folder is empty.
~/.config/FreeTube
APT, .deb, AppImage and tarball default. Flatpak uses ~/.var/app/io.freetubeapp.FreeTube/config/FreeTube/ instead. Back up profiles.db plus playlists.db at minimum.
Frequently asked questions
Which FreeTube file holds my subscriptions?
profiles.db. It stores profiles and subscription lists. Copy it alongside playlists.db if you care about saved videos too.
I installed via Flatpak and ~/.config/FreeTube is empty. Where is it?
Flatpak sandboxes config to ~/.var/app/io.freetubeapp.FreeTube/config/FreeTube/. That folder holds the same .db files.
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