# Vinegar - Tube Cleaner — user reviews > 932 indexed App Store user reviews of Vinegar by And a Dinosaur, rated 4.30/5 from 756 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 527 · 4★ 76 · 3★ 46 · 2★ 30 · 1★ 77 ## What do users think of Vinegar? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Works as advertised - 🚀 Fixes YouTube - 💡 Useful for audiobooks - 👍 Quality of life improvement - 👍 Essential extension - 👍 Awesome when it works - 👍 Invaluable - 👍 Awesome app - 👍 Excellent app - 👍 Lovely when it works - 👍 Wonderful app **Cons** - 🐛 Video quality issues - 🐛 Buggy and inconsistent - 🐛 Breaks functionality - 🐛 Doesn't work with VPNs - 🐛 Doesn't work with other extensions - 🐛 Doesn't work on iPhone - 🐛 Frequent updates cause disruption - 🐛 Doesn't work as expected **Commonly reported bugs** - Videos default to mute audio - Doesn't work with AirPlay - Playback issues when switching apps or rotating device - Toolbar buttons not working - Video player crashes when rotating device - Inconsistent video quality selection - Doesn't update video history - Doesn't remember playback speed settings **Most requested features** - Add playback speed options - Add support for chapters - Add option to disable ad blocker - Add option to disable extension on certain sites - Add support for higher resolutions and HDR - Add support for Chromecast - Add keyboard shortcuts for navigation - Add option to always start in theater mode - Add option to default to highest available quality ## Newest reviews (13 of 932) ### 2/5 — It keeps crashing *2026-07-27* That’s it keeps crashing, not all time but a lot. ### 4/5 — Great app but has recurring bugs *2026-07-14* 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. ### 3/5 — Les sous-titres se réactivent seuls tout le temps *2026-07-08* 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. ### 3/5 — Great When It Works :( *2026-06-29, version 3.4.6* 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. ### 4/5 — Can’t see subtitles *2026-06-23, version 3.4.6* Subtitles never shows. ### 4/5 — Great *2026-06-15, version 3.4.5* 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. ### 4/5 — Works well. *2026-06-08, version 3.4.5* 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. ### 3/5 — Youtube playback issue *2026-06-08* Video controls layout disappears totally after watch a youtube video for some time in Safari, iPadOS26. ### 2/5 — 还不更新吗？ *2026-06-01* 最近一直会自己退出账号。期待尽快更新。 ### 2/5 — Pretty great! Doesn’t really work though! *2026-05-28, version 3.4.5* The app works exactly as advertised and is listed at a very fair price for the functionality. I’ve encountered one bug, where the volume jumps down every minute if you turn it up. I’m sure this is due to something on the YouTube page, but of course I hope And a Dinosaur can fix it up soon! I won’t be able to use it until this bug is fixed, please respond to my review so I get an email when it’s fixed and I’ll update it. ### 2/5 — 😭👎🏻 *2026-05-24, version 3.4.5* If Vinegar works fine on my old backup iPhone, that's not the case on my iPhone 16. I don't have picture-in-picture; when I leave Safari or the screen goes to sleep, the video stops and I have to restarts from the beginning. So all the extra features besides ad blocking don't work for me only the ad blocker does. It's a shame. ### 4/5 — Great *2026-05-19, version 3.4.5* 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. Vinegar classic also has it’s own quirks and 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. ### 2/5 — App is not working currently *2026-05-14, version 3.4.5* I’ve used the app for a while, the buttons to allow the extension OS level stay on screen after an option is selected. The video player overlay does not activate. A Liquid Glass UI would be nice. The rss feed needs a spotlight, underrated for sanity against google. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Do not buy awful don’t waste money on this trash *2026-07-30* So terrible the audio refreshes automatically to half or no volume videos fully go blank and its just overall awful ### 1/5 — No longer working *2026-07-07, version 3.4.6* Worked well for years but now no longer functions for YouTube ### 1/5 — Disparition de la fonction Audio *2026-07-04* Je n’ai plus la fonction Audio sur YouTube, elle a disparu au fil des versions. ### 1/5 — Everything perfect *2026-06-24, version 3.4.6* But subtitles are lean left and I can’t read ### 1/5 — It used to work *2026-05-30, version 3.4.5* Now I get consistently the same message: “Fallback. This video is blocked by YouTube with a 403 error. It's not a bug in Vinegar. Try clearing your browser history and reloading this page.” Clearing the data, refreshing, even using private mode, nothing works. ### 1/5 — Not Work Anymore *2026-05-23, version 3.4.5* The Vinegar app stopped working on my iOS. In the video quality settings, it only shows 'fallback' instead of the usual resolution options, and I can't change it. ### 1/5 — No longer works for yt *2026-05-23, version 3.4.5* The video player changes but it’s a lot worse experience than default Aldi quality is only 360p ### 1/5 — Doesn’t autoplay *2026-05-23* As title, using web scribbler but doubt that has an effect ### 1/5 — Not working playlist *2026-05-08, version 3.4.5* The app is not working properly with YouTube playlists. It only plays a single video .The playlist does not automatically move to the next track, and playback stops after one video finishes. ### 1/5 — Poor *2026-05-06, version 3.4.5* I expected more from this but PiPifier works better except you have ads. Even the subtitles are all skewed to the left side that I would miss out the left part. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — fix error plz... *2026-07-22* fix error plz... ### 5/5 — Disable Adblock for best experience *2026-07-04* Works great! Just make sure to disable your ad blocker. They seem to clash if both enabled. ### 5/5 — Cannot use Safari without it *2026-07-02, version 3.4.6* The fizzy water bundle makes the internet tolerable. Thank you. Worth every single penny. ### 5/5 — 👑 *2026-06-26, version 3.4.6* 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. ### 5/5 — Must have. *2026-06-18, version 3.4.6* This is a must have extension. The awesome developer continually updates it to keep it working properly! ### 5/5 — 便利になる！ *2026-06-06* 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。 ### 5/5 — Echt klasse *2026-06-02, version 3.4.5* Die App funktioniert super. Auch der Support meldet sich quasi sofort und hilft bei Problemen. Die 1,99€ sind auf jeden Fall gut investiert. ### 5/5 — Has the developer abandoned this? *2026-05-30* The app has been great lately especially when paired with Adguard. Would be helpful if they added something where you could increase the amount of video it downloads before it starts playing to prevent buffering when YouTube does silly stuff. ### 5/5 — Excellent app! *2026-05-18, version 3.4.5* Will you add timestamps inside the timeline in the player? ### 5/5 — Reproductor multimedia anti adds *2026-05-14, version 3.4.5* Desde probé las funcionalidades me gustó, ya no veo molestos anuncios de youtube, puedo activar reproducción en segundo plano y apagar la pantalla, la mejor compra. Recomendada. --- *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 2026-08-27.*