# Waffle - Video Tube Player — user reviews > 135 indexed App Store user reviews of Waffle by Artur Remizov, rated 4.60/5 from 155 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/waffle-video-tube-player/id1193772661/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/waffle-video-tube-player/id1193772661.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 126 · 4★ 14 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 7 ## What do users think of Waffle? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 98% ad free - 👍 The best ever - 👍 Very entertaining app **Cons** - 🐛 System Malfunctioning - 🐛 Subscriptions are gone! And now the app displays nothing! - 🐛 Videos Don't Even Load - 🐛 Not working - 🐛 Broken on iOS 13 - 🐛 Videos Don't Even Load - 🐛 Does not work at all - 🐛 App doesn't even load anymore - 🐛 App no longer working - 🐛 App doesn't work anymore - 🐛 App stopped working in the background **Commonly reported bugs** - Subscriptions removed - Background play stopped working - Scrubbing/seeking issues - Crashes and freezes - Compatibility issues with iOS 13 **Most requested features** - Bring back background playback - Bring back subscription tab - Add shuffle play for playlists - Add volume adjustment slider - Add rewind/forward buttons - Resume playback from where left off - Add captions/subtitles support ## Newest reviews (15 of 135) ### 3/5 — System Malfunctioning *2025-09-07, version 2.2* The Dailymotion suddenly stops loading videos only on your app ### 3/5 — Good app but I have a huge problem *2019-12-18, version 1.4.9* So my problem is that I used this app before and for some reason it doesn’t even work now like it doesn’t even load in the search and it’s so annoying because this app is really good ### 4/5 — Not working !! *2019-10-10, version 1.4.9* It’s not working since 2 months ❌❌❌ On ipad ios 13 ### 1/5 — Waffle *2019-10-04, version 1.4.9* Still not working at all need to fix the app ASAP ### 1/5 — Broken *2019-10-03, version 1.4.9* No longer works. Nothing loads (except the banner ads of course) ### 1/5 — The app is not working *2019-10-01, version 1.4.9* I’ve used this app many times and now with the new update the videos are not loading onto the screen and the with a simple search for a video the it still struggles to load. ### 4/5 — Tt *2019-09-30, version 1.4.9* Hey like this but it’s not loading. So can you release a new update to make it work right. ### 2/5 — I don’t recommend updating *2019-09-30, version 1.4.9* After I updated it, nothing on it would work. All I get is a white screen. Used to be great before the most recent update. Unfortunately I had to delete it since it’s not working 😪 ### 1/5 — Does not work at all *2019-09-28, version 1.4.9* Will not load at all to watch anything ### 1/5 — What happened? *2019-09-28, version 1.4.9* The app stopped working.. I can’t even use the app anymore and I don’t want to delete it, its keeps loading and I wanted for like 6 minutes and it even didn’t work ### 1/5 — Not working. *2019-09-28, version 1.4.9* I had this app then one day it crashed and I couldn’t do anything and it keep loading so, you must fix it please. Thanks ### 2/5 — A few problems *2019-09-27, version 1.4.9* I’ve had waffle for a while now and it’s worked great but lately it’s not working as in when I open the app it just does the loading sign and it won’t let me get in to my playlists, it’s says that there are no playlists but I have 2 and when I search for a video it just does the loading sign again. ### 3/5 — Hate and SWEET LOVE *2019-09-27, version 1.4.9* Updated: Why won’t it load? It’s been down for over a whole week now??? cons: Can't choose my own icons on bottom banner Crashes Pro: -Clock and battery level and title of video comes up along with other player icons for video (and you can cycle back to just video view). Finally! Fine A Lee! Thanks for this one. So I don't have to keep clicking out of the app to check on the time. Updating: About The banner of icons on the bottom. I wish I could select what icons I wanted to go on the bottom and what order. ### 4/5 — waffle *2019-09-27, version 1.4.9* Have been a week now unable to open Waffle just get a spinning icon not able 5o fix ### 1/5 — Dosen’t Work anymore *2019-09-27, version 1.4.9* I like this app, but it dosen’t work anymore since iOS 13. I hope that they will fix it. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Subscriptions are gone! And now the app displays nothing! *2020-03-09, version 1.4.9* 3/8/20 update: This used to be the greatest YouTube client app, a great interface and feature rich, plus it eliminated all the YouTube ads, which I assume is why youtube did everything they could to disable the capabilities of this app. At first the app lost subscription rights access, then absolutely no video feeds. What a shame. Deleted the app, please don’t download this app, it doesn’t work any more. Apple should really do a better job of cleaning this crap from the AppStore when it no longer works and the dev has obviously abandoned the app. 9/20/19 Update: still no Subscriptions feed, and now nothing is loading. The app is now worthless, do not download! 5/4/19Update. Still no Subscriptions feed. 😢😡 4/26/19Update. Still no Subscriptions feed. 😩 4/20/19 Update. Still no Subscription display “button” at the bottom. What a disappointment. 4/12/19 with today’s update, the “Subscription” choice has been removed; what happened? I could care less about “popular” I want my subscriptions back! ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2019-12-12, version 1.4.9* Just a blank screen. Looks like developer has abandoned the app. ### 1/5 — Disappointed!!! *2019-11-25, version 1.4.9* What went wrong. This app used to be the go to, it was reliable, helpful it was actually perfect. What Went Wrong?!?!? What happened?!?! Can we listen to our music again while exiting the app, can you not crash every 5 seconds!! ### 1/5 — App is dead. *2019-11-23, version 1.4.9* Here’s the thing, YouTube has been actively shutting down third-party players for years as they take attention away from the official app. And no Matter what eventually developers will be met with an email saying Unless they want a lawsuit on their hands they must either remove certain features like background play and picture and pop out video or shut down the app all together. Maybe the developer will reactivate this app or just make a new one altogether. But it seems as though this may be the end unfortunately. ### 1/5 — Broken on iOS 13 *2019-10-22, version 1.4.9* Doesn’t seem to work anymore on iOS 13 and no way to contact the developer. Spinner just keeps on spinning. ### 1/5 — Please fix your app *2019-10-17, version 1.4.9* Everything used to work fine but then it stopped loading... I checked the internet and it’s good everything else works fine So please fix it (or you’ll never see five stars). ### 1/5 — RIP to a once perfect app *2019-10-15, version 1.4.9* No more updates as of Sept 2019, thank you Artur for this app, it used to be perfect and then i dont understand why you kept making worse, my theory is that maybe google paid to make this app un-usable so people can use the official youtube app. i wish i never updated this app from the working version from months ago. Hopefully google hires you or you find more success. old review: this guy is removing every feature that made this app useable, every update gets worse, i dont know why hes sabotaging his own app and not even giving any explanation. if google is making him remove features, he should tell us. this was a 10-star app just a couple versions ago, and quickly got ruined. what is going on with this guy? ### 1/5 — Waffle app not loading *2019-10-09, version 1.4.9* The videos do not load. Listing is blank ### 1/5 — Dead app *2019-10-08, version 1.4.9* Used this back when it was kinda the cool thing to use instead of YouTube. Now that I’ve returned over a year later, all the passion I had for the app is GONE. Practically everything is broken. If you try and search anything, it’ll always get stuck searching and nothing’ll turn up. I only heard of the removal of the background play support a while ago and that bummed me out quite a bit. With the state of the app now, I don’t know what to do with this other than toss it into the fiery pits of hades to forever burn until the heat death of the universe leaves it eternally lone from all other existing matter. Uninstalling after the 2 years I’ve kept it on my system. ### 1/5 — Videos Don’t Even Load *2019-10-06, version 1.4.9* Youtube itself refuses to load on the app, making this effectively useless for watching videos. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 98% ad free *2025-12-16, version 2.3* I can watch YouTube without those annoying advertising interruptions. Dailymotion however will show an advert on some videos but otherwise this app is perfect for those watching ASMR content without the adverts and not having to worry about paying for removal of ads, for those who don’t have the money to buy a subscription that just prevents interruptions. YouTube should be free to watch for everyone. ### 5/5 — The best ever *2025-04-28* The application has improved significantly in recent updates, now it has become easy to use, I liked it very much that it is easy to navigate and search, and also play clips are responsive. It's really the best application🥇 **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your kind review! I’m really glad to hear that you’re enjoying the improvements and finding the app easier to use. Your support means a lot, thank you! 🙂 ### 5/5 — Very entertaining app.👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 *2025-02-22* Love the app. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback! Really happy to hear that you love the app ☺️ ### 5/5 — Not working ⁉️ *2019-12-02, version 1.4.9* Since three months not working ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️ ### 5/5 — Won’t work *2019-11-23, version 1.4.9* What’s happened to waffle it won’t load on my iPad & phone can you please fix it please with an update I’m disappointed..... I don’t know if you have read this but please can you fix this problem this app won’t open & it’s getting very frustrating please can you sort it cos it’s not fair when all you get is loading all the time & saying no play lists 😞,,,,, I sent these messages weeks ago & still nothing has been done it still won’t open it’s saying loading all the time this is very annoying please sort it but I think my request is being not read & it’s not fair ### 5/5 — iPad *2019-09-26, version 1.4.9* Need go back waffle video player my iPad please ### 5/5 — Why? *2019-04-13* I love this app it’s my favorite and it’s one the only apps I use,but there’s an issue,I make little videos with songs I need to know the lyrics and what to do but now the screen won’t come out anymore and also my subscribers videos I don’t know if they made anymore because it’s replaced with playlist which I wouldn’t be as made about but that doesn’t even work so play fix there two things before I find something like this app but better 😔 ### 5/5 — What happened?! *2019-03-09, version 1.3.3* I've just paid £7 and the app doesn't even play in the background anymore! ### 5/5 — Awesome *2019-03-04, version 1.3.3* Background Playback is no longer working on this update can you please fix this. Great app 5-Stars, useful for anyone seeking alternative to native YouTube app. Still waiting for 1080p support and search filters. Awesome work. ### 5/5 — 5 Stars but issue recently playing videos *2019-03-03, version 1.3.3* I have been using this app for as long as I can remember to play YouTube videos in the background. Ever since the update 2 days ago (Mar 1), the app is not able to play YouTube videos as audio in the background. To app support/developer : Please fix this issue. The background audio was the only feature compelling me to use this app (as I’m sure for many others). Thank you. --- *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 2026-08-24.*