# Video Lite — user reviews > 2,086 indexed App Store user reviews of Video Lite by Video Lite, Inc., rated 4.80/5 from 167,846 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/video-lite/id1598997500/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/video-lite/id1598997500.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 148,305 · 4★ 10,189 · 3★ 3,700 · 2★ 1,738 · 1★ 3,914 ## What do users think of Video Lite? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Ad-free experience - 🔒 Background playback - 👍 Convenient features - 🚀 Smooth performance - 👍 Reasonable subscription cost **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy updates - 🔋 Overheating and battery drain issues - 💩 Intrusive ads in free version - 🔇 Audio issues with video playback **Commonly reported bugs** - Playlist loading issues - Inconsistent enhanced player behavior - Chromecast connectivity problems - Captions not working as expected - Video quality locked at low resolutions **Most requested features** - Add landscape mode support - Improve video quality options - Implement a way to move bookmarks between folders - Add a notification bell for new uploads from subscribed channels - Allow editing of comments after posting ## Newest reviews (13 of 2,086) ### 3/5 — App buggy. Google trying to block it, works *2026-08-24, version 6.23.400* While this app has player and various issues, it largely does the job. Not sure how good it is with privacy alas. Update buggy and ads frustrating, yet not as bad as googled right now. Captions don’t work in full screen. Not perfect, yet good to be semi de-googled. Not sure what tracking and fingerprinting still goes on as history easily comes back after a wipe cache or whatever. So maybe not as privacy based as hoped. UPDATED. While the powers that be try to block this, it DOES work with their ‘enhanced’ player, you have to wait for something to ‘time out’ and say it won’t play and it starts playing, every time. ### 3/5 — ^^ *2026-08-24, version 6.23.400* L’application elle est bien mais le nombre de publicité qu’on voit au début est énorme et compliqué de les fermer ### 5/5 — 👽👽👽 *2026-08-23, version 6.23.400* 👍👽 ### 5/5 — 好喜欢 *2026-08-21, version 6.23.400* 很好 ### 5/5 — Ramírez *2026-08-20, version 6.23.400* 2020 ### 5/5 — Buena *2026-08-20, version 6.23.400* Muy buena excelente ### 5/5 — Actually awesome *2026-08-20, version 6.23.400* They asked me to make a review and I accidentally said no but I genuinely love this app and only having one ad to open access every other app is so fair #swag app ### 4/5 — Sometimes great *2026-08-19, version 6.23.400* It works perfectly for YouTube. However it still shows ads on Twitch which is very disappointing ### 3/5 — Playlist shuffle *2026-08-19, version 6.23.400* The shuffle feature for playlists is broken. ### 4/5 — Nice *2026-08-19, version 6.23.400* Very good aqq ### 5/5 — Great App *2026-08-17, version 6.23.400* Thank you for existing for poor people. Developer like you needs 100 years of life. ### 5/5 — This is the best app I ever use *2026-08-17, version 6.23.400* Like every time I’m at 5% or 10% or 1% I use this app so it doesn’t give me ads because when my dad is gonna come for me I can’t reach so I use this app so it doesn’t give me ads so I don’t have to use my hands I could just lay down and relax. I love it even changes. Did you even start the video like it’s so freaking good I love it. ### 5/5 — Screen off *2026-08-16, version 6.23.400* Able to watch with the screen off is awesome! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Non functioning *2026-08-25, version 6.23.400* This app is arguably worse than base YouTube, the feature where you can listen with the screen off does not work, listening while not ON the app does not work, there is no way to change my settings. or remove community posts, there is no way in the settings to remove YouTube shorts, the comment section does not function properly. If it was not for the fact that YouTube forces DOZEN of ads this app is worse and blatantly nonfunction in every single way. Fix your app ### 1/5 — Worse than original YouTube *2026-08-24, version 6.23.400* The app is just collecting so much data and selling to every platform possible, you just have to look through the cookie acceptance process. At this point it’s just worse than using regular YouTube. ### 1/5 — Lies *2026-08-24, version 6.23.400* No ads advertised but oh boi 😔 ### 1/5 — Bloated with pop up hard to close Ads now *2026-08-22, version 6.23.400* This app’s initially did as Intended but as of now it shows ads that are hard to close ### 1/5 — Loved this app but I had to uninstall *2026-08-18, version 6.23.400* The amount of gambling ads I got just trying to open this app is insane. And when I’m given the option to “remove ads, nothing happens. I’m just super disappointed that only gambling ads are advertised on this amazing app. Going back to regular YouTube because at least they don’t spam the same 3 gambling apps. ### 1/5 — Has adverts *2026-08-17, version 6.23.400* has adverts anybody who says otherwise is a liar ### 1/5 — Great but…. *2026-08-17, version 6.23.400* Please add a way to remove these annoying sticker ads on YouTube shorts…. I don’t want to see any ads if I’m paying premium for the app! ### 1/5 — Not intuitive on how to download *2026-08-16, version 6.23.400* Just put a download button. Why so convoluted? ### 1/5 — Horrible UX *2026-08-14, version 6.23.400* If intuitive design exists, consider this app the exact opposite. It’s slow, poorly designed, and absolutely infuriating to use. Videos at 320p, bad login experience, and on and on. Straight trash that should have been fixed long ago. Slop. ### 1/5 — The best alternative to YT app and more *2026-08-09, version 6.23.300* My original review from a long time ago that no longer is true: I don’t write reviews for apps hardly ever. But this app has been a godsend to someone who cannot stand long (and sometimes un-skippable)video ads. The referral program is a very nice touch even tho I haven’t used it yet. Had I more coin to spare i would gladly pay the $ for the no-ads package but I hope that the money made off of me from the non-instructive and quickly closable ads (that do NOT interrupt videos often; if at all) can eventually add up to over $10 for the no-ads package because honestly, this person (or team) deserves it. Constant updates and improvements that easily make the official YT app look like a cheap and greedy knock-off. Background playback is the biggest cherry-on-top. Fantastic. Thank you so much for this app. You’re making our video-surfing MUCH more pleasurable while not screwing over your users with any kind of malicious or annoying bait. I appreciate it greatly as I’m sure many others do. **edit 08/09/26** The above review is what I said about this app years ago and it was very much true. The app he’s sadly devolved to constant full-screen ads that you have to wait a long time to dismiss unless you pay for the subscription to the app. Making such a pivot and underhanded decision from an app that was nothing short of a godsend to just another shady and misleading app that wants your money to provide features it used to give out for free is just par for the course these days. Also a TON of the 4/5 star reviews are obviously and clearly either AI or throwaway accounts boosting this app’s review score. If it wasn’t for the deceit and clear pivot in terms of user trust; I’d rather this app maybe a 3 star but this developer deserves nothing short of 1 star now after what they’ve turned this app into. Shame on you, dev. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Darkelis *2026-08-30, version 6.23.500* Lo amo ### 5/5 — Son los mejores *2026-08-28, version 6.23.400* Que rica es la vida sin anuncios. Gracias! 🙏 ### 5/5 — Video *2026-08-27, version 6.23.400* I like that it has stuff like YouTube but it sadly doesn’t work with the internet offline I think well I tried it and it didn’t work ### 5/5 — 🔄 Please bring back the Enhanced Player as an option *2026-08-27, version 6.23.400* Please bring back the Enhanced Player as an optional feature. I understand it was disabled because it didn’t work properly with YouTube, but on other websites it was very useful when a video was detected. It would be great if the developers could revert this change and allow users to enable it optionally like before. 🙏 ### 5/5 — No Ad *2026-08-27, version 6.23.400* Best best!! I use rain sounds on you tube to go to bed and thank God for Video lite I have no interruption with ads!! I can sleep ! ### 5/5 — App *2026-08-25, version 6.23.400* Muy buena app para escuchar música 👌🏻😍 ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-08-25, version 6.23.400* Background play <3 ### 5/5 — Nhạc *2026-08-25, version 6.23.400* Tuyet vời ### 5/5 — Best *2026-08-24, version 6.23.400* best apps ### 5/5 — Great *2026-08-23, version 6.23.400* Great app, works perfectly so far. --- *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 2026-09-01.*