DeArrow for YouTube vs Sardines Carpool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DeArrow for YouTube
This browser extension helps you avoid clickbait on YouTube by allowing users to submit and vote on better titles and thumbnails. It offers customizable title formatting and random thumbnail selection, ensuring a more accurate and less sensational viewing experience.
- Crowdsourced titles and thumbnails
- Customizable title formatting
- Random thumbnail selection
- Avoids clickbait and sensationalism
- Supports third-party YouTube front-ends
- Configurable options
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DeArrow is a browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal of DeArrow is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. Titles can be any arbitrary text. Thumbnails are screenshots from specific timestamps in the video. These are user submitted and voted on. By default, if there are no submissions, it will format the original title to the user-specified format, and set a screenshot from a random timestamp as the thumbnail. This can be configured in the options to disable formatting, or show the original thumbnail by default. If the original thumbnail is actually good, you can still vote for it in the submission menu, and then it will act like a submission. No more dealing with clickbait, arrows, or annoying faces. Users can submit better titles and thumbnails for each video and vote on them. How does DeArrow differ from Clickbait Remover for YouTube? - Unlike Clickbait Remover, DeArrow's main purpose is for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails - When a crowdsourced title is not available, DeArrow will auto-format it according to your setting, but does it in a more sophisticated way than Clickbait Remover. Instead of only setting all words to lower case, or capitalizing every word, DeArrow supports casing systems such as "Title Case" and "Sentence case". These will still allow acronyms and proper names to remain capitalized. - When a crowdsourced thumbnail is not available, DeArrow by default shows a screenshot at a random timestamp in the video. Clickbait Remover's thumbnails use YouTube auto-generated thumbnails, and while they are seemingly random, they are chosen by a machine learning algorithm to favor faces with expressions, and other overstimulating features. DeArrow uses truly random timestamps generated by its own server. DeArrow will also check the SponsorBlock database to ensure the randomized thumbnail is not inside of a sponsor segment. --- Source code: https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow Permissions: Access your data for youtube.com, www.youtube-nocookie.com: - Used to modify the YouTube webpage This add-on may also **ask*" to access data for any website: - You can add your own instances of 3rd party YouTube front-ends, and it will ask for permission to modify each site you add - It will never ask for permission for all sites, only the sites you request - Invidious support is not finished at the moment
Sardines Carpool
Effortlessly organize carpools directly within iMessage. Create ride polls, manage multiple vehicles, and save your car details for quick setup. Everything stays within your conversations, no accounts or servers needed.
- Create ride polls in iMessage
- Support for multi-vehicle trips
- Save custom vehicle seat layouts
- Automatic name saving
- No accounts or server reliance
- Trip scheduling with date and time
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Sardines makes organizing carpools effortless — right inside iMessage. No accounts, no downloads for your friends, no switching between apps. Just open Sardines in any conversation and start filling seats. **Create Ride Polls in Seconds** Pick your vehicle, assign a driver, add passengers to seats, and share the ride poll with your group. Everyone in the conversation can see who's riding where at a glance. **Multi-Vehicle Trips** Need more than one car? Add multiple vehicles to a single trip and assign passengers across all of them. The message preview adapts automatically — from a detailed single-car view to a compact multi-vehicle summary. **Your Vehicle Garage** Save your cars, vans, and SUVs with their exact seat layouts. Support for regular seats, shotgun, car seats, and boosters — so you always know who fits where. Switch vehicles with a tap when plans change. **Names That Stick** Sardines remembers your drivers, passengers, and trip names. The more you use it, the faster it gets. Names from rides other people send you are saved automatically too. **No Accounts. No Servers.** Everything stays in iMessage. Your ride details are encoded directly in the message — no sign-ups, no cloud storage, no tracking. It just works. **Trip Scheduling** Add a date and time to any ride so everyone knows when to be ready. **Built for Real Life** Whether it's the daily school run, a weekend trip, or coordinating rides to the game, Sardines keeps everyone on the same page without the group text chaos.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Sardines Carpool at Free against DeArrow for YouTube's $0.99. Sardines Carpool also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). DeArrow for YouTube's advantage is chart position (#98 vs unranked) and device support (4 vs 2). On ratings volume, 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
Sardines Carpool is free to download; DeArrow for YouTube costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sardines Carpool holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of DeArrow for YouTube's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sardines Carpool's.
DeArrow for YouTube ships an update every 3 weeks, Sardines Carpool every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DeArrow for YouTube | Sardines Carpool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (18 ratings) | 4.7 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #98 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ajay Ramachandran | Robert Mc Cord Hoehn |
Customer experience
DeArrow for YouTube
Sardines Carpool
In-app purchases
DeArrow for YouTube
No in-app purchases
Sardines Carpool
No in-app purchases
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