Play: Save Videos Watch Later

En bra app men den har svårt att hämta metadata från vissa streaming sidor , klarar typ bara Netflix

I use this over YouTube watch later and playlists but it’s lost its drag and drop functionality, unless that’s been moved to the paid tier. Adding multiple videos has thus become much harder. I’ll probably end up going back to YouTube watch lists as a result.

Let me preface this by saying I have 600+ subs on YouTube. The desktop app is slow and confusing. First, importing from YouTube is slow. That’s fine, but there is no progress bar, and it just slowly chugs along. Next, you have to go into the Channels list to actually move the videos you want to watch. Which is annoying because the channels window is slow. Horribly slow. Scrolling through the Channel list is jittery at best. There is no way to easily manage that list, either. No way to filter just the channel list. And the channel inbox filter/search box is slow. Type in a letter, and you are waiting… spinning wheel of death. 30 seconds later, still waiting. And it freezes up everything, so now you are stuck waiting. And when you select a video, again, the entire thing freezes up. It’s frustrating. So many places where the UI just hangs. Oh.. more than a minute later, my search from before? Yeah, now it’s unfrozen. I can type the next letter. I selected a video in the Channels Inbox. And…. Waiting. Spinning wheel of death. Some 30+ seconds later it unfreezes. It has done nothing as far as I can see. It’s still selected. Oh, no… I was wrong… This app was so hyped, but I can’t believe anyone really put this through the paces. Also, the video I selected? Yeah… after about 60 seconds, it changes to the next video below it? This is still ALL just in the channel inbox. So, we are just trying to review which videos we want to schedule to watch. Oh… again! It magically changed the selection again! I’m literally in this window typing out a review, and the app just did it’s own thing without me touching it. So no. if you are anything beyond a casual user of YouTube, stay away. The YouTube website *with* ads is faster. I’m on an M1 Max with 32 GB of memory.

By using Play, I’m doing less endless browsing and scrolling on YouTube and getting better focus on the channels and playlists I add to the app. I especially appreciate the smart folders and searches auto-tagging and filtering added videos. I try to empty my unwatched videos folder daily by only saving videos that I plan to watch. By using Play, I’m also avoiding a lot of the noise and clutter on YouTube. Thanks for this app.

Have to give 4 stars just so they can do small improvements, app does what it promises. One update i wish is - you need to close / open app in order to refresh iCloud Sync. It’s annoying if you’re watching something, and adding something into your feed, it would not show up unless you close the app and reopen. Please add some type of Sync button.

A beautiful app that I wish I could use, but it will not sync to your other devices by using the share sheet etc. you must open the actual app afterwards to have the sync work.

This is a well made and useful app, and I'm definitely a fan of the dev (MusicHarbor and MusicBox are FANTASTIC). But... after reviewing my subscriptions, I realized this is one of the most expensive subscriptions I have and the value add just isn't there imo. Play is double what I pay yearly for my podcast app, triple the cost of my photo backup app, and only $5 less than the app I use to remotely manage my computer. The functionality gained vs the yearly cost just doesn't make sense (for me). The one time cost of purchasing the app is well worth it, but I'm opting to let my subscription expire for the time being. I hope to see more features added in the future that justify the subscription cost.

For some reason the developer has decided that paying $3 for the app is not enough to actually get the full functionality of the app. You will be required to also purchase a $20/yr subscription. Pick one strategy, freemium and subscription or paid app. Makes no sense. Will be reaching out to Apple for a refund. Not worth a yearly subscription imo

I can't rave enough about this app. I've moved all of my video consumption to Play on mobile and desktops, because it just does it right. New features added all the time to improve upon something that is already great. I don't really buy many apps or even do subs, but I could not miss this.

Some things that would make this a compelling alternative YouTube experience is a search feature (searching YouTube) and playback quality defaults (1080p,720p,360p). I feel like I might be missing this setting, but I wish there were various views and per-tag layout settings (like choosing a thumbnail grid for certain tags). A game-changing feature would be if this had a "podcast" setting/player, which could play a selection of videos audio-only to save data. Perhaps this could work almost like a "tag" to set certain added links to display and be played as an audio-only digest.