ZenTube User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience84.6% of reviews
Neutral15.4% of reviews
Negative experience0.0% of reviews

~ Based on 13 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is ZenTube Safe?

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Is ZenTube Legit?

ZenTube - Decluttered appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for ZenTube is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

My Favorite App

I never write reviews, but this app is perfectly built for how I think people should interact with online content. Keep up the great work! It is super valuable.

Response from developer

Hi JacksonStan7, Thank you for the kind comment and for understanding the core value behind ZenTube. It brings me joy every time someone gets it and enjoys it as much as I do. Hong

Nice but unstable

I love the design and easy navigation. I hate the fact that it crashes repeatedly.

Response from developer

Hi R Coogan, Thanks for the honest feedback. And sorry that you’ve encountered such issue. I will look into that. Meanwhile, please feel free to provide the details on how those crashes happened and email it to zentube@intenca.com. It can certainly help with fixing the issue. Thanks! Hong

Thank you for this amazing app

I’ve struggled for a long time with YouTube addiction. This app has helped me a lot. However, could you add a feature that deletes categories I’ve added and renames categories I’ve added? I can’t find a way to delete a category. Thank you.

Response from developer

Hi merryhy, Thank you for using ZenTube, glad that it helped you. Currently, there is no renaming function in the app. You can workaround this by creating ew category and removing the old one. You can delete a category by going to the subscriptions page > Tap the edit button on the top right corner > Tap the delete button next to the category name. Then, you can create a new category and put the channels in as you like. I will add the rename function in the next update. Thanks, Hong

Background play support needed

Fantastic app. But as of ios 26.4.2 background play doesn’t work, which is a feature I would love to have.

Response from developer

Hi Onionchips04, Thanks for the kind words. I can totally understand that. Unfortunately, no third party YouTube client can add a background playback feature in-app. Doing so will be a breach of their ToS. Considering that alone, ZenTube is not taking that risk, hope you can understand. Thanks, Hong

Défiler

Ce serait bien du l’on pouvait avoir les vidéos des chaînes qu’on ajouter en les faisant défiler

Youtube as a Tool, Not an Addiction

recently i have been trying to better my life by massively reducing the amount of time i spend on a screen. i quit netflix, snapchat, instagram and twitter. i also wanted to quit youtube because their recommendations and shorts keep me on their app for hours, but i could not completely cut off youtube because its an important way of getting news. zentube is exactly what i was looking for! i can still watch youtube and learn from it without the ads, shorts, and other distractions. (also i get to avoid youtube’s ai features which is a plus) i highly recommend this app
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Response from developer

Thank you very much for your kind review, vikingberry! You nailed it with “as a tool, not an addiction”. That’s pretty much the goal of this app. By the way, all the best trying to better your life, that sounds awesome. Meanwhile, I will try to make this app better. Much thanks, Hong C.

Extremely Helpful

I’d been looking for a front end that worked for for iOS and finally found this one - glad I did. Takes a bit of time to set up, but it does make me use the app more intentionally. I actually pick what I want to watch/listen to and then put my phone down, rather than aimlessly scroll through 40 suggested videos I don’t care about. Great job!
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Very good

This is cool. The only thing is that the extra features are a bit pricey.

Amazing app

Helps fight the matrix and resist slavery of young people. Thanks G

Please add a function of hiding Comments and Hiding “text recommendations” in the search bar when you type the name of the video.

Response from developer

Thank you, Michael. On it.

Fundamentally great at doing what it’s supposed to do

ZenTube is a better way to watch YouTube if you’re like me and you spend too much of your time on the platform.

By restricting what content is available or easily accessible, it can help you make smarter decisions with your time and what you actually want to watch.

However, these restrictions can feel frustrating when compared to the normal YouTube app. Although this is by design, I promise you that having no easily accessible recommendation page or shorts button to press will get to you much more than you would like to think.

I do think there are room for improvements in this app, namely:

1. Including video duration somewhere in the subscriptions section - sometimes I have a set duration where I want to watch something and don’t want to pick something too long or short

2. Being able to log in to YouTube - I understand that the app is built in a way that prevents this, but often I watch YouTube on other devices which don’t have ZenTube, leading to inconsistencies in my watched videos and other things that are slightly annoying.

3. Being able to turn restrictive features on or off. For example, I quite like seeing thumbnails, which are disabled on the app for all subscriptions videos.

Overall, the app isn’t perfect but it’s a hell of a lot better than the default YT app for preventing binge watching or scrolling.
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Getting there

Needs a way to filter between shorts and full length videos

Response from developer

Hello PhoenixFF, Great suggestion! This feature is now in the works. Thank you for supporting ZenTube.

Really good

Wow this is actually pretty good and it works how I expected it to I can filter educational and business channels without the thumbnail and save my time, thanks for making this

Response from developer

Hi Shaun, You're welcome. Thank you very much for your kind words! I’m glad that this app can help you in the way I envisioned it should, as it has helped me personally. If you have more feedback or need anything, feel free to email me at zentube@intenca.com. I’m more than happy to hear from you. You can expect more in the future from ZenTube. Thank you for your support!

So clean

Really good and simple app without all the YouTube clutter!