Awful vs Unwatched for YouTube
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Awful
Access and navigate the Something Awful forums with ease on your iPhone and iPad. Enjoy features like bookmarked threads, image uploads, private messages, and a dedicated smilie keyboard. This app offers a streamlined browsing experience for forum enthusiasts.
- Browse all forums and subforums
- Access bookmarked threads
- Built-in SALR functionality
- Smilie stickers and keyboard
- Image and picture uploads
- Private message access
- Favorite forums and rap sheets
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Browse the Something Awful forums nicely on your iPhone and iPad! • Every forum and subforum! • Quickly check your bookmarked threads! • Built-in SALR! • Smilie stickers and keyboard! • Upload images and pictures! • Private messages! • Favorite forums! • Rap sheets! • Excessive exclamation marks!
Unwatched for YouTube
Manage your video consumption with a customizable queue and channel following. Avoid algorithmic feeds and enjoy features like custom playback speeds, chapter support, and picture-in-picture.
- Customizable video queue
- Follow channels and playlists
- Triage new videos
- Hide Shorts
- Custom playback speed per channel
- Chapter support
- Picture-in-Picture and background audio
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Follow YouTube channels or add Videos to watch them later KEY FEATURES • The Queue No autoplay, no algorithmic bottomless feed. Just the Videos queued up in the order you want to. • Follow Channels or Playlist Automatically add new videos • Triage Choose where new videos of each channel should end up. Directly on top of the queue, or in your inbox to sort through them. Pick the best, leave the rest. • Sick of #shorts? Hide them all if you want. • Custom Playback Speed Per Channel Set custom speeds for any channel. Want to watch trailers in 1x and podcasts in 2x? You can. • Chapter Support Jump to any chapter or pick and choose a few to watch while skipping the rest. MORE • Picture-in-Picture (+ Background Audio) • Drag and drop videos & channel urls • Shortcut support • Continuous play • Notifications • Sleep Timer • Custom Themes • Directly Import YouTube Subscriptions • iCloud Sync
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Awful at 4.9 against Unwatched for YouTube's 4.6. Awful also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Unwatched for YouTube's advantage is device support (6 vs 3). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Awful holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 239 and 445 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 87% of Awful's written reviews are positive against 88% of Unwatched for YouTube's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Awful ships an update every 8 days, Unwatched for YouTube every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Awful | Unwatched for YouTube |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (239 ratings) — better | 4.6 (445 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.6% of reviews | 88.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 239 | 445 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 130 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Dale Stonall-Mellor | Pentland Firth Software GmbH |
Customer experience
Awful
Unwatched for YouTube
User reviews
Awful
From 239 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and efficient
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 🔒 Secure browsing experience
- 💡 Customizable layout and settings
- 🎨 Visually appealing design
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 📉 Declining performance over time
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 🚫 Compatibility issues with newer devices
Unwatched for YouTube
From 445 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great functionality
- 🚀 Perfect for YouTube picture-in-picture and background audio
- 👍 Wonderful YouTube replacement
- 👍 Excellent app
- 👍 Brilliant app
Room to improve
- 🐛 PiP is broken on iPhone
- 🐛 Buggy and often freezes iPad
- 🐛 Crashes when marking too many videos as watched
- 🐛 Experimental iCloud sync issues
Bugs and requests
Awful
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes when opening certain forums
- Inability to load images and media
- Freezing and lagging on older devices
- Sync issues between app and website
Requested features
4 requests- Add search functionality
- Implement dark mode option
- Improve thread navigation and bookmarking
- Integrate with other social platforms
Unwatched for YouTube
Reported bugs
3 issues- Another video opens when screen is flipped
- Queue not loading on Apple TV
- App crashes on iOS 18.1 beta
Requested features
8 requests- Download videos within the app
- Organize videos in dedicated playlists
- Add player to Apple TV app
- Option to not remove videos from inbox until fully watched
- Remember right-most tab state through app restarts
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- Support for webview YouTube sign-in with passkeys
- Add light mode option
- Provide tutorial for first-time users
In-app purchases
Awful
No in-app purchases
Unwatched for YouTube
No in-app purchases
