Comparison

Better Player for Youtube vs Elysium_AR

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Better Player for Youtube

This app enhances your YouTube viewing experience by fading the background and providing an on-screen controller. It allows fullscreen or picture-in-picture playback while blocking all advertisements for uninterrupted content consumption.

Highlights
  • Ad blocking
  • Background fading
  • On-screen controller
  • Fullscreen playback
  • Picture-in-picture mode
Features
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Better Player is a Safari extension for YouTube. It blocks the ads, turns the page into a dark room with the video as the one lit thing in it, and on iPhone takes the video full screen in landscape even when the rotation lock is on. NO ADS Ad slots are hidden by a stylesheet before the page first paints, the ones YouTube injects into the feed afterwards are cleared, and a skippable ad in the player has Skip pressed for it as soon as the button appears. An unskippable ad still has to play — nothing here breaks YouTube's playback to get around one. LANDSCAPE FULL SCREEN, EVEN LOCKED TO PORTRAIT On iPhone, YouTube serves its phone layout, and Better Player gives you the playback bar — Picture in Picture, back and forward ten seconds, play, full screen — the ad blocking, and a full screen that works with the rotation lock on: tap full screen and the video turns sideways to fill the screen, with its own play, pause and skip buttons, double-tap to skip, and a drag along the edge to scrub. Turn the phone and the video follows. FOCUS MODE A dark layer covers the page and the video is lifted through it, centred in the window. Nothing is removed and nothing is rearranged — scroll down and the comments are exactly where YouTube put them. Press the close button in the corner and the lights come back up. AMBIENT LIGHT Better Player reads the frame on screen five times a second and paints its colours back out behind the video as a soft glow. A reef throws blue across the page; a field of mushrooms throws yellow-green. It drifts as the scene moves and stops when you pause. How far it spreads and how strong it is are yours to set. SHORTS A reel gets the same treatment: lit, with the guide dimmed and the column of buttons beside it out of the way. One switch keeps focus mode to watch pages instead. CONTROLS WHERE YOUR HANDS ARE Back and forward ten seconds, play and pause, previous and next, home, Picture in Picture, full screen — laid over the dimmed page, large enough to hit without aiming. Every button can be switched off; keep the two you use. PRIVACY Better Player is a Safari extension and nothing else. There is no backend it could send anything to, no analytics inside it, and no sign-in. Your settings stay on your device. Safari asks for permission on youtube.com because restyling that page is the whole job. FREE No in-app purchases, no subscription, no ads in the app. One app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. ELEVEN LANGUAGES English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified, Traditional and Cantonese), German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. WHAT RUNS WHERE Focus mode, ambient light and centring run on the watch page on iPhone, iPad and Mac alike. Shorts are built on YouTube's desktop site — that is what iPad and Mac load; on iPhone, ask Safari for the desktop site and they come with it. Better Player for Youtube is also available in the Mac App Store.

About

Elysium_AR

Features
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This App allows you to see the Augmented Reality of Dennis Rudolph's painting and enter Elysium at Flock Of None, Berlin. How to use: 1. Open the App 2. Allow camera usage 3. Turn off the silence mode of your phone 4. Turn up volume to max 5. Scan the paintings 6. Move around to fully experience the AR artwork

Screenshots

Better Player for Youtube4 screens
Elysium_AR3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Elysium_AR at 12.0 against Better Player for Youtube's 16.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Better Player for Youtube versus Elysium_AR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBetter Player for YoutubeElysium_AR
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews55.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB136 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJasmine StudiosDennis Rudolph

In-app purchases

None

Better Player for Youtube

No in-app purchases

None

Elysium_AR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Better Player for Youtube free?
Better Player for Youtube is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Elysium_AR free?
Elysium_AR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Better Player for Youtube or Elysium_AR have ads?
Neither Better Player for Youtube nor Elysium_AR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Better Player for Youtube or Elysium_AR?
Better Player for Youtube ships an update every 2 weeks, and Elysium_AR every 2 weeks. Most recently, Better Player for Youtube was updated on October 30, 2026 and Elysium_AR on October 27, 2026.

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