Vinegar User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience64.1% of reviews
Neutral12.2% of reviews
Negative experience23.7% of reviews

~ Based on 932 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Vinegar Safe?

Vinegar - Tube Cleaner appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Vinegar is 84/100.

This assessment is based on 755 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.2/5.

Safety Analysis

79.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
6.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
14.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 755 App Store ratings for Vinegar.

Is Vinegar Legit?

Vinegar - Tube Cleaner appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Vinegar is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Do not buy awful don’t waste money on this trash

So terrible the audio refreshes automatically to half or no volume videos fully go blank and its just overall awful

It keeps crashing

That’s it keeps crashing, not all time but a lot.

fix error plz...

fix error plz...

Great app but has recurring bugs

It works well for picture in picture, and blocking ads. Unfortunately there is a bug that always turns on subtitles for videos. It was mentioned in the latest update but it’s still a problem for me. Very frustrating to have to turn off the subtitles again every single time I open a video. Hopefully the devs can figure out a fix soon.
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Les sous-titres se réactivent seuls tout le temps

Bien qu’ayant vérifié dans mes paramètres YouTube que les sous-titres ne sont pas activés automatiquement par défaut, et que cela fonctionne effectivement comme prévu avec le lecteur standard de YouTube, avec Vinegar activé, j’ai très souvent les sous-titres qui s’activent au lancement de la vidéo, sans que je les aient activées moi même, et même si je les avais désactivés sur une précédente vidéo.
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No longer working

Worked well for years but now no longer functions for YouTube

Disparition de la fonction Audio

Je n’ai plus la fonction Audio sur YouTube, elle a disparu au fil des versions.

Disable Adblock for best experience

Works great! Just make sure to disable your ad blocker. They seem to clash if both enabled.

Cannot use Safari without it

The fizzy water bundle makes the internet tolerable. Thank you. Worth every single penny.

Great When It Works :(

I’ve used the app a long time and only recently the video will start playing but the controls won’t show up. You can’t make the video full screen or skip to a different part of the video. Wish this app would receive an update, Safari is awful to use without it.

👑

Title: YouTube Is Usable Again — Thank You

I cannot overstate how grateful I am for this app.

Without Vinegar, using YouTube in Safari had become an absolute nightmare — cluttered, frustrating, distracting, and honestly exhausting. This app completely changes the experience. It works flawlessly for me and makes YouTube feel clean, simple, and usable again.

What I appreciate most is that Vinegar quietly does exactly what it is supposed to do. No drama, no overcomplication, no extra nonsense — it just opens the door back to actually enjoying videos again. That may sound simple, but when something you use often goes from frustrating to peaceful, it makes a real difference.

Thank you to the developer for creating this. I am genuinely happy I found it, and I appreciate the care that clearly went into making YouTube feel sane again.

Easy five stars.
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Everything perfect

But subtitles are lean left and I can’t read

Can’t see subtitles

Subtitles never shows.

Must have.

This is a must have extension. The awesome developer continually updates it to keep it working properly!

Great

Has worked near perfectly for a few years now. Adds a lot of functionality to the youtube player. It’s much better to have the skip 10 seconds buttons available without being in full screen. The only problem is over the last month for me there has been a buffer at the beginning of most videos.

I tested it out by disabling Vinegar, and there was no buffer on the default player. You will also see the experiencing interruptions? Notification so this is definitely intentional by youtube as that’s a problem on desktop as well. Vinegar classic has its own issues with youtube so I prefer Vinegar instead. I’m hoping this can be fixed in an update at some point. Still a great extension.

Solution: For anyone who stumbles upon this I managed to fix this issue by changing the user agent. There’s a few apps on the AppStore capable of doing this very easy.
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Works well.

This works well to make mobile YouTube useable without a subscription to YouTube premium. I combine it with uBlock origin lite and SponsorBlock for that old school web feeling, before the user was the product.

Only complaint is alternative audio tracks can’t be listened to with vinegar active, but the developer does update the app fairly regularly so hopefully they’ll add that feature at some point if it is possible.
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Youtube playback issue

Video controls layout disappears totally after watch a youtube video for some time in Safari, iPadOS26.

便利になる!

購入すると、
・広告のストレスがほぼ無くなる。
・ゲームなどするときに、動画見ながらできる為非常に便利
などとても良い機能があります!ゆえに良いアプリです。

ただ、動画を再生した後に、数秒真っ暗に固まることが最近ややあります。ここだけ少し気になりますかね。

Echt klasse

Die App funktioniert super. Auch der Support meldet sich quasi sofort und hilft bei Problemen.
Die 1,99€ sind auf jeden Fall gut investiert.

还不更新吗?

最近一直会自己退出账号。期待尽快更新。