SmallTube vs Slappy Hands
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmallTube
A native iOS client for watching videos, offering ad-free viewing with picture-in-picture and background playback. Enjoy a streamlined experience for embeddable content.
- Ad-free viewing
- Picture-in-picture playback
- Background playback
- Native iOS experience
- Embeddable video support
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A simple and native YouTube client for iOS with no ads, picture-in-picture, and background playback. For picture-in-picture to work, toggle it while in fullscreen and then exit to home. After that, background playback will also work! Limitations: - Only embeddable video can play (most songs and copyrighted material are not available) - The app requires an API key from the YouTube Data API. You can easily create one for free.
Slappy Hands
This app translates wrist movements into escalating sound effects, starting realistic and progressing to absurd explosions. It offers instant response and visual feedback, designed for a continuous, engaging experience without menus or tracking.
- Motion-activated slap sounds
- Escalating sound tiers
- Instant response
- Visual feedback on hits
- Rage-shake detection
- Works on either wrist
- Launches from watch face
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Slap the air. Your watch cracks back. Slappy Hands turns a flick of your wrist into a sound you can feel. Motion in, sound out — no menus, no setup, no waiting. That tight little loop is the whole point, and it's the reason people keep doing it long after the joke has landed. Then it escalates. The first slaps sound real. Keep going and they drift into cartoon, then absurd, then full explosions — a designed arc, not random noise — with rotating one-liners along the way. Tap the flame to skip straight to chaos. Built for feel: • Instant response — motion detection tuned by ear, not by spec sheet • Four sound tiers that escalate as you go, then reset so the arc can run again • No sound repeats back-to-back, so it stays alive the hundredth time • Keeps sounding even when the screen dims mid-session • Visual feedback timed to every hit: pulsing ring, color shift, flash • Rage-shake detection for when you really commit • Works on either wrist, arms itself when you raise it, sleeps when you don't • Launches straight from a watch face complication • Tap to see your slap count for the session No account. No ads. No tracking. Nothing leaves your watch. Just slap.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Slappy Hands at 5.0 against SmallTube's 2.0. Slappy Hands also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). SmallTube's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Slappy Hands holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
SmallTube ships an update every 2 days, Slappy Hands monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmallTube | Slappy Hands |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Ioannis Notaris | Tom Pardee |
Customer experience
SmallTube
Slappy Hands
In-app purchases
SmallTube
No in-app purchases
Slappy Hands
No in-app purchases









