# TubeBuddy — user reviews > 343 indexed App Store user reviews of TubeBuddy by Geronimo Systems, LLC, rated 2.90/5 from 433 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tubebuddy/id1226080309/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tubebuddy/id1226080309.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 141 · 4★ 41 · 3★ 35 · 2★ 52 · 1★ 164 ## What do users think of TubeBuddy? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Quick overview of channel stats - 🎉 Helpful for growing YouTube channels - 👍 Useful features for creators **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and unreliable - 🤔 Paid features not working as expected - 💸 Subscription issues and lack of transparency - 📱 Poor mobile app experience **Commonly reported bugs** - Subscriber count not updating correctly - Milestones not tracking properly - Frequent crashes and freezes - Login and authentication problems **Most requested features** - Improved tag search and management - Real-time data sync and updates - Dedicated iPad app with better UI - Multilingual support ## Newest reviews (18 of 343) ### 4/5 — Dark Mode *2026-05-01, version 3.4.59* Dark Mode is finally HERE… Yes 😎👌💯 ### 3/5 — I want this app to do better cause I do love it *2025-04-27, version 3.2.22* It’s absolutely no doubt it’s probably hands-down the best app to keep track of likes dislikes, views videos, etc. everything‘s great up to the point where you filter everything out just public videos look at at them all say oh good great close the app come back into it. Can’t filter out anything anymore. It’s frustrating especially when you do shorts and you get ahead of the game and you have yourself a good month of shorts that are scheduled now you got a months worth of videos to filter through just to see the ones that are posting today fix that and your app will be golden…. don’t just brush this off because I can tell you there’s other apps chasing your heels and if you don’t fix your stuff, they’re gonna overtake you and then you’ll become a distant memory. ### 3/5 — Go back to the old app! *2025-03-20, version 3.2.14* One of the rare occasions were an update looks good but the app itself works much worse. A lot of bugs! ### 3/5 — Last update was a downgrade *2025-03-19, version 3.2.12* Either that or it still needs to be tweaked ### 2/5 — Laggy, tiny UI, and throttled features *2025-02-26, version 3.2.7* First Impressions on the new TubeBuddy update! First off, swiping up and down makes your phone lag like crazy. Secondly, It seems a little too overly complicated for what it is. For example, they’ve made the buttons, thumbnails, and text smaller so you have to be more mindful trying to click on things, thus killing the convenience of quickly wanting to check analytics or read comments. If you’re in a car bumping up and down, the last thing you want is a mobile app that has these characteristics. They’ve even changed their app icon to be smaller as if to signify the “theme” of the new update. I’ve used this app for years and it was not like this. It started out being smooth, larger buttons, and easy to navigate. One day they decided to throttle about one third of all the features, which made me not want to use it. It’s sad to see such a great app go downhill. Just use YouTube studio now. ### 1/5 — Took permissions for my account then crashed *2025-02-25, version 3.2.7* App had me sign in to my account, get permission to access the account, then crashed keeps crashing anytime I try to sign in. Something feels fishy and I can't revoke access to my channel. ### 1/5 — Not able to login *2025-02-24, version 3.2.7* Not able to login with my account, error message is popping up ### 1/5 — New UI is bad. Uninstalled for multiple reasons. *2025-02-24, version 3.2.7* The new UI it too counter intuitive. You can no longer see your dislikes, WAS a better alternative to going to the web version of YouTube on mobile. The information changed to a point that isn’t as easy to understand. Now an all white app, thanks. I like being blinded on an entire dark mode phone. Not really. The UI before was nice, simple, and easy to navigate. Clearly whoever signed off on this new UI, has ZERO idea how to navigate apps. ### 1/5 — New interface is bad and breaking *2025-02-23, version 3.2.7* The new interface is not working. It’s not recognizing that I am paying premium. When I try to restore previous service it freezes. ### 1/5 — App login error *2025-02-17, version 3.2.7* Please check your App is not working ### 1/5 — Not working. *2025-02-13, version 3.2.7* Before the last update worked ok. Since the update just a white screen. That’s all I get. ### 1/5 — New interface is terrible *2025-02-11, version 3.2.7* It doesn’t show the view count in real time going up anymore. Bring the old UI BACK!! or I’m deleting ### 1/5 — Not giving me what they promise *2025-01-08, version 3.1.1* I pay monthly but keep getting a message to upgrade and can’t access a search ### 2/5 — Not bad just disappointing *2024-11-09, version 3.1.1* Overall the app is useable but collectively it is incredibly laggy, barely syncs with your channel and unless you pay for pro the apps features are minimal. If you desperately need to track your views and subscribers AND haven’t found the YouTube studio app. Go ahead and download this app. I will note the browser extension is great! However, this app feels like the neglected middle child that gets left at the grocery store. TLDR: Service is great, app is next to useless which is worse than useless. Use YouTube Studio until they add some features that aren’t in studio (unrestricted content planning, Brainstorm area, upload checklist, and so many more). ### 3/5 — Some Feedback *2024-10-07, version 3.1.1* I’d really love easy access to the channel health report as well as A/B results if possible. Being able to quickly give those numbers would be super helpful! ### 1/5 — DON’T RECOMMEND! *2024-10-06, version 3.1.1* First the data is incorrect in tube body. For instance, it does not show the correct number of views, it fails to capture the hashtags in the suggested designated areas, etc. Although it’s only $2.99 monthly- it’s not worth it to me because this info is literally FREE online and there are EXTREMELY limited tools available with PAID or non paid. Absolutely no difference! ### 1/5 — Issues *2024-08-28, version 3.1.1* Way you put it back the old version app again I’m very disappointed and confused ### 1/5 — Tubebuddy Is Misleading *2024-08-24, version 3.0.1* So where are all the tools to help with a giveaway that they allude to? They skirt very close to false advertising. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Thieves!! *2026-07-24, version 3.4.61* Never even opened an account with tubebuddy only got the app in my phone and they took money on my apple account when I had not even started to use their services???! Took the app out and disconnected my bank card from apple. I will NEVER put this app again or use it. ### 1/5 — can’t resolved the problem *2025-12-26, version 3.4.45* i can’t searching the tags even my account was unlimited ### 1/5 — App issues *2025-12-10, version 3.4.45* Won't open anymore ### 1/5 — Terrible App *2025-12-07, version 3.4.45* I am being charge $19 per month for an App that I cannot open. I have tried canceling, but due to the App not functioning I cannot cancel this dysfunctional App! ### 1/5 — No option to cancel *2025-07-23, version 3.2.33* This is a horrible app in that I’ve been trying to cancel it and it’s not located under subscriptions at all. They steal 10 from me every month and I still can’t cancel it. ### 1/5 — Very bad *2025-06-04, version 3.2.28* I had high hopes for TubeBuddy based on all the hype, but this app turned out to be a complete letdown. First of all, the interface feels outdated and clunky. It’s not user-friendly at all, and many features are buried behind confusing menus. The free version is practically useless—it’s more like a glorified ad for their expensive plans. Speaking of which, the paid version is massively overpriced for what you get. Keyword research is basic at best and often gives irrelevant or misleading suggestions. It feels like they just slap on random data and call it “SEO tools.” The analytics aren’t anything special either. You can get better insights directly from YouTube Studio for free. Plus, the app has frequent bugs and crashes, and customer support is either unresponsive or takes forever to get back to you. Overall, TubeBuddy feels like it’s living off its past reputation. There are much better tools out there now. Save your time and money. ### 1/5 — Only the English language is not comprehensive *2025-05-25, version 3.2.27* It's a pity that there is no traditional Chinese. It's not comprehensive, which greatly reduces the impression score. ### 1/5 — App not working *2025-03-30, version 3.2.14* App not working in iphone after update ### 1/5 — Make it a simple app again *2025-03-03, version 3.2.8* One star for being too small too busy too complicated ### 1/5 — Login issue, tired so many times *2025-02-27, version 3.2.8* First time login issue, asking to connect gmail account on repeat. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Lost all my topic ideas *2024-08-27, version 3.1.1* Since TubeBuddy has rolled back the UI to the version previous to the disaster talked about below, it’s back to the app that I use multiple times a day. The topic planner is back and all my topics have been restored. Everything works as it should and its my goto to see how videos are doing TubeBuddy mobile used to be a good app. I’d check it multiple times a day. This latest update makes it pretty much unusable. First of all, the new updated deleted all the video topic ideas I had created on the app. Months of work creating ideas are now gone. The subscriber count is so small I need my glasses to see it. The number of videos, views and subscribers needed for the next milestone are gone or don’t work. Toggling on hide comments with replies turns itself back off on its own. Looks like I’ll be saving $2.99 a month by dropping this app. It’s a shame because I really liked the previous version. ### 5/5 — UI rollback is the best decision *2024-08-25, version 3.1.1* not every new thing is better… ### 5/5 — Здравствуйте) а как перевести на русский язык? *2024-04-18, version 2.9.14* Спасибо заранее🙏🏻 ### 5/5 — Great but… *2023-10-15, version 2.9.8* The subscriber count is still not updating. And I don’t want to delete the app and reinstall it and then I loose all the previous information, like it happened last time. I hope you are able to solve asap. Good job! ### 5/5 — Not show achievement total shorts total subscribers *2023-03-03, version 2.6.9* I can not seen my total view subscribers or achivment in tubebuddy plz do check ### 5/5 — Amazing *2022-11-12, version 2.6.9* This is cool I Cam acces tools I like it It kinda Help and see And I like it and Show more and I rate it 5 stars ### 5/5 — Can’t log in *2022-10-10, version 2.6.7* I have the paid version after updating my phone I I am unable to login ### 5/5 — Great app *2022-09-16, version 2.6.6* Super easy and good for quickly checking subs and views and likes. Updates fast. 5/5 ### 5/5 — LOVE IT but.. *2022-07-16, version 2.6.6* I love this app and love using it for my videos for them to get more popular but I hate that the screen in it is really small, I use it on my iPad but it has a phone screen but overall it’s the best app to achieve goals ### 5/5 — Very good *2022-07-14, version 2.6.6* This app is very good and simple so it helps me with my videos and it’s also good for organizing I got subs by listening to tube buddy Subscribe to my YouTube:Rose boxa --- *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 2026-08-30.*