# InBackground — user reviews > 116 indexed App Store user reviews of InBackground by SALAH HIJAZI, rated 3.80/5 from 446 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/inbackground/id1489086630/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/inbackground/id1489086630.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 238 · 4★ 67 · 3★ 35 · 2★ 27 · 1★ 79 ## What do users think of InBackground? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Works as advertised - 🚀 Useful for background playback - 💡 Convenient app for listening to YouTube - 👍 Simple and straightforward to use **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and freezes - 💰 Expensive ad-free version - 📢 Too many ads - 🐛 Restore purchase feature not working **Commonly reported bugs** - Issues playing live videos - Ads playing over actual content - Unresponsive video controls - Inconsistent app behavior **Most requested features** - Add repeat/loop feature - Improve playlist functionality - Add video speed controls - Enhance scrolling and navigation ## Newest reviews (14 of 116) ### 2/5 — Would be good… *2026-04-30, version 3.0* It’s good- excluding that when I want to search a song sometimes it freezes. Other times it will pause mid song, then when I check to see what went wrong on the app it refreshes itself. I then have to look up that same thing and try to remember where it was at. (-_-｡) I don’t know if they’ll actually fix it though… ### 2/5 — Was a great app. Seems abandoned *2026-01-06, version 3.0* I loved this app when i first bought it over a year ago. Now it has issues trying to load youtube all the way. It hasn't had an update in over 5 years! Please update ### 2/5 — Crashes *2025-02-25, version 3.0* When I click anything in my browsing history, the app crashes ### 4/5 — Love the app BUT…. *2024-10-21* I’ve paid for no ads, and it still pops up with the ‘get no ads for £10’ message everytime I open the app. Clicking ‘restore purchase’ crashes the app. Please fix **Developer response:** Thanks for your review. We released a new update today, fixing the ads playing in the background problem. We invite you to give our new version a try and update this review with your opinion about the latest update. ### 4/5 — Bugs, Bugs, Bugs *2024-08-27, version 3.0* Fix the bugs please ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2024-04-14, version 3.0* Too expensive for the ad free version when there’s no auto play option to use. Oh and btw, I boycott every company I’m given a forced ad by. ### 2/5 — Ads ruin your stream *2023-10-14, version 3.0* This app was good a few years ago now you can barely use it due to the ads starting at the beginning of your stream. The ads start and keep playing over and over. ### 3/5 — Speed times 2? *2023-09-23, version 3.0* It’s good but I can’t make it 2 times the speed when playing. Can you add this feature please? ### 2/5 — Was a great app. Seems abandoned *2023-09-14, version 3.0* I loved this app when i first bought it over a year ago. Now it has issues trying to load youtube all the way. It hasn't had an update in over a year. ### 3/5 — Popups *2023-06-30, version 3.0* I pid for the ad free version yet i still get the popup to pay for the ad free version. Selecting restore purchase just crashes the app. Annoying to have to close a popup every time i open the app. No ads in the app, but the pop up is just as annoying. Does what it says it’s supposed to though. A bit odd of an interface but all i wanted was background play. I do wish playing videos was a bit more efficient. It seems to want to autoplay the first video on home but then doesnt like to swap very easily and cant really scroll down in my feed. Nothing loads on scroll. ### 2/5 — Almost 5 Stars but no repeat or save function. *2023-06-09, version 3.0* Needs the ability to repeat. Needs the ability to save the extracted audio. ### 4/5 — Good *2023-01-09, version 3.0* Please make video speed adjustable ### 2/5 — It works, but you’ll delete it *2022-09-17, version 3.0* It will in fact play your YouTube video in the background, so that you can close it and, for example read a text article in your browser, but, when you open it back up, it will have ads that you cannot close. So you will have to force close it and reopen it to load a different YouTube video. It gets old. ### 3/5 — I don’t mind the ads but… *2022-08-08, version 3.0* There is no play on repeat button. That’s all this app needs. Please include a play on repeat button. I’ll even pay for this product if it gets a play on repeat button. Thanks. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Only plays one video in playlist *2026-05-05, version 3.0* It only plays the first item in a playlist. If you try to play again, it repeats the first song. Shuffle play is inaccessible. I wanted something hands-free. This absolutely is not! ### 1/5 — No repeats *2025-11-06, version 3.0* No repeat playing or repeat all ### 1/5 — Scrambled *2025-09-24, version 3.0* This apps is on sum ### 1/5 — Lol ad every video *2023-07-09* Im not watching no ads every video. Deleted ### 1/5 — Habibi, we have a VERY serious problem. *2023-05-26, version 3.0* It’s the in app purchase to remove ads. It’s not working like it should. It works for a while, it then tells you to restore the purchase but then the restore purchase button doesn’t work. Sometimes the app crashes out every time you press “restore purchase” Also I can’t slide the video on my iPhone lockscreen. I have to open my phone and go to the app in order to slide the video marker to a certain timestamp. It’s annoying. Habibi I’m Arab just like you (Yemeni) and it would be great if these issues could be fixed but as of the moment they are very disturbing to have in your application. They need to be fixed. ### 1/5 — HORRIBLE APP *2023-05-22, version 3.0* Can’t do anything without 1000 ads. Delete it. ### 1/5 — unusable due to constant adds *2023-04-06, version 3.0* I had to click to turn the add off 4 times in one minute each time its it’s 5 second long. Awful. Free version is Unusable ### 1/5 — Rubbish app *2023-02-25, version 3.0* -Can’t use the space button on my phone -More restricted than the freedom you assume your getting. If your not convinced good luck download the app and enjoy the app and have a nice day. ### 1/5 — THIS MADE ME SO MAD *2022-09-05, version 3.0* I kept getting ads every time I played some music I got a lemons ad over and over again it got me mad and I’m gonna try redownloading FIX YOUR APP ### 1/5 — Freezes too much *2022-06-02, version 3.0* Too much freezing and ads ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Jerry *2024-08-12, version 3.0* This is a very resourceful app that I use everyday on the go, as I like listening to music and podcasts. The best! ### 5/5 — Love it. But…. *2024-08-10, version 3.0* Okay, just applause to you. I listen to the Quran with your app. I listen to it all day. And your app makes it possible. I do wish that there were controls to speed up the video. I only use that one page anyway, and at times I do choose other reciters, and I would be well pleased to be able to speed up even just this one page. I love your app because I have the ability to turn off my screen and no one can even detect my earbud. Even in situations it’s not appropriate to use my AirPods, I use my Bluetooth hearing aids. So, win-win for me. But please, either walk us through the settings via posting a tutorial, or if possible, explain how difficulty adding this feature will be? My son is a software engineer, he loves this stuff, me, I don’t fully comprehend the endeavor it will be for this type of project. So if it isn’t cost efficient, I understand. If it’s possible, then pretty please can we add that? Thanks lol ### 5/5 — Best app for YouTube *2023-06-13, version 3.0* I love that I can listen to podcasts while phone is off ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2023-05-14, version 3.0* Ok so I was looking for this for a long time but I found this I am very happy with I like it indeed,and I like listening to the music in the background so thank you for making this app:) ### 5/5 — Best Background App *2023-01-11, version 3.0* Just exactly what you need. ### 5/5 — Best YT player for music and podcasts *2022-10-08, version 3.0* Best YT player for music and podcasts Free version is fine ### 5/5 — Perfect *2022-08-25, version 3.0* You can play vids while on other apps, while the phones locked etc, works great :) ### 5/5 — Warning: no autoplay feature *2022-07-24, version 3.0* App seems nice, but the forward/back buttons do nothing. Autoplay doesn’t work on youtube, so you have to constantly reopen the app to keep playlists going. ### 5/5 — It's good. Really, really good. *2022-06-01, version 3.0* This app does it's stuff - you can listen to anything with either locked phone or when you browse through your phone not in browser app. Sometimes there are errors on YouTube, but it's not critical. It's very obscure feature, but I'm glad that my stuff continues to play after I end phone call. It's small, but it's very convenient. Thank you. ### 5/5 — ASMR while reading *2022-05-05, version 3.0* I use this app to listen to relaxing videos/noise while reading. It’s great --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-25.*