VINEGAR USERS: You can get a 50% discount by completing the Fizzy Water Bundle!
Baking Soda is a Safari extension that replaces custom video players (except the YouTube player) with a minimal HTML video tag.
Baking Soda is more basic than Vinegar. Unlike Vinegar, Baking Soda doesn't block ads or let you switch the video quality. If Baking Soda doesn't work on certain websites, you can easily disable it in the settings.
Note: The "can read and alter webpages" text in the permission section is just unfortunate wording. Baking Soda needs access to the web page to find video players and replace them. It's not doing anything creepy!
HideShow More...
Screenshots
Baking Soda FAQ
Is Baking Soda free?
Yes, Baking Soda is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Baking Soda legit?
🤔 The Baking Soda app's quality is mixed. Some users are satisfied, while others report issues. Consider reading individual reviews for more context.
It’s truly great to finally be able to use one familiar set of controls and UI across the vast majority of the web. The conversion to the HTML video player doesn’t work on every single website I’ve tested, but the vast majority play along just fine, so I’m satisfied. As expected, certain features of custom video players, like selecting resolutions, are not available. I’m not sure if it’s technically feasible to implement such features, but as far as the scope of the app being to simplify video playback in Safari, I don’t mind - besides, the extension can be easily disabled on a per-website basis.
I would appreciate the ability to customise the extension pane, if possible. I’d rather not have every single website be listed every time the toolbar icon is selected. I’d prefer, instead, that only the checkbox for the currently displayed webpage be listed.
This and Tube Cleaner are great!
So good, only still get adds on twitch. If you could find a way to fix those this’d be a 10/10. Cheers
Wow…
Makes watching videos across the web so effortless and easy… thank you :)
Amazing
It's great! Well worth the money. If you want to declutter, get it. Super clean, simple, and easy to use: the PiP feature does it for me.
If you want the features of streaming services like episode previews you can just toggle it off in the top bar of Safari—this extension is super good.
Better Web Experience
Using this app over the past few weeks has resulted in a far more pleasant web surfing experience. So much of the web involves video content with horrible video players, so forcing the standard across every site makes so many webpages simpler, faster to load, and more elegant.
Breaks websites
Causes Amazon photos not to display
A must have app!
This app actually makes YouTube usable!
Fantastic but needs subtitles
This is a fantastic app that does exactly as it says. The issue is that there is no subtitle option. It would be great if the extension can detect if a video has subtitles and then be able to display them.
Why accessing my passwords and credit cards?
Great extension, but when I go to Safari Extensions settings it says that Baking Soda can access "sensitive information from webpages, including passwords, phone numbers, and credit cards." Now, why is that the case? I might delete the extension just because of this odd permission.
Works good
Just in the last 2 days it has been turning itself off for YouTube. The slider in extension settings keeps reverting to off.
Love it though.
This page includes copyrighted content from third parties, shared solely for commentary and research in accordance with fair use under applicable copyright laws. All trademarks, including product, service, and company names or logos, remain the property of their respective owners. Their use here falls under nominative fair use as outlined by trademark laws and does not suggest any affiliation with or endorsement by the trademark holders.
