Feature request: July 2026
Requested feature: Only show videos from before a certain date.
Rationale: New trends in video editing, that have come about in this clipping economy, are irritating. For example, these people take a ~2 min clip and splice the ‘interesting’ or ‘funny’ bit at that start of the video.
It keeps on happening and once you notice the trend it’s impossible to not see it.
I like this app and it has really helped remove so much of the obnoxious force features that google keeps cramming in- what I wish they would do is stop letting people upload to the site.
Rationale: New trends in video editing, that have come about in this clipping economy, are irritating. For example, these people take a ~2 min clip and splice the ‘interesting’ or ‘funny’ bit at that start of the video.
It keeps on happening and once you notice the trend it’s impossible to not see it.
I like this app and it has really helped remove so much of the obnoxious force features that google keeps cramming in- what I wish they would do is stop letting people upload to the site.
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The most worthwhile purchase on the App Store
There are two apps I consider to be the most worthwhile purchases I’ve ever made on the App Store. The first is going ad-free in the now defunct GOAT of music players, Musi the app (not typo). The second, is Untrap right here.
On PC Desktop it takes an army of some 9-10 different Chrome extensions to customize the site how I like it. This app does all of their jobs in one. The one king to rule them all, so to speak.
Youtube, by default, is so over-engineered with psychologically manipulative, cluttered ui design that makes it impossible not to click on a million videos and have your valuable time and mental energy sucked away on worthless slop you were never interested in in the first place. Youtube has spent decades perfecting the art of hijacking user’s eyes and minds, and it costs us so much more in lost productivity.
While you can achieve the same content blocking effect in the excellent Orion Browser by Kagi, Google wouldn’t let me sign in (for commenting) on Kagi for some reason. Orion allows you to use desktop browser extensions on mobile browser, which is techno witchcraft, but also highly experimental and can be temperamental at times. Orion also lacks ad blocking. Brave Browser effectively blocks ads and lets me sign in, but it does nothing about distracting related videos or the hated Shorts.
Untrapped does what it says. It liberates you from the vicious cycle and makes Youtube work for the users (like Tron) instead of the user serving Youtube overlords (like Clu).
Nothing can be truly free on the App Store—it costs devs $100/ year just to have apps on there. A one time, non-subscription purchase of $4 without any sketchy ads or data selling policies is about as close as you can get to a free lunch on iOS. And the high quality and deep breadth of features is unrivaled, even by the best desktop extensions. Needless to say, I am most pleased and highly recommend anyone and everyone buy and use this app.
As a note to the developer, would it be possible to achieve compatibility with other non-Safari browsers e.g. Brave Browser? Or add generic ad-blocking functionality outside of Youtube?
On PC Desktop it takes an army of some 9-10 different Chrome extensions to customize the site how I like it. This app does all of their jobs in one. The one king to rule them all, so to speak.
Youtube, by default, is so over-engineered with psychologically manipulative, cluttered ui design that makes it impossible not to click on a million videos and have your valuable time and mental energy sucked away on worthless slop you were never interested in in the first place. Youtube has spent decades perfecting the art of hijacking user’s eyes and minds, and it costs us so much more in lost productivity.
While you can achieve the same content blocking effect in the excellent Orion Browser by Kagi, Google wouldn’t let me sign in (for commenting) on Kagi for some reason. Orion allows you to use desktop browser extensions on mobile browser, which is techno witchcraft, but also highly experimental and can be temperamental at times. Orion also lacks ad blocking. Brave Browser effectively blocks ads and lets me sign in, but it does nothing about distracting related videos or the hated Shorts.
Untrapped does what it says. It liberates you from the vicious cycle and makes Youtube work for the users (like Tron) instead of the user serving Youtube overlords (like Clu).
Nothing can be truly free on the App Store—it costs devs $100/ year just to have apps on there. A one time, non-subscription purchase of $4 without any sketchy ads or data selling policies is about as close as you can get to a free lunch on iOS. And the high quality and deep breadth of features is unrivaled, even by the best desktop extensions. Needless to say, I am most pleased and highly recommend anyone and everyone buy and use this app.
As a note to the developer, would it be possible to achieve compatibility with other non-Safari browsers e.g. Brave Browser? Or add generic ad-blocking functionality outside of Youtube?
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Developer Correct, I Was Wrong
Options are within a separate menu icon now.
doesnt work anymore 💔
even after uninstalling and reinstalling its doesnt redirect the homepage nor does it block shorts
Helpful at a cost
Although this app is extremely helpful for me personally, it does cause a noticable performance impact on Safari, even on an iphone 17.
