Vinegar - Tube Cleaner

Published by: And a Dinosaur

Description

Vinegar is a Safari extension that replaces the YouTube player with a minimal HTML video tag.
It removes ads, restores picture-in-picture, and allows videos to play in the background when set to audio-only quality.
Note: The phrase 'can read and alter webpages' in the permissions section is just an unfortunate choice of words. Vinegar needs access to the webpage to find the YouTube player and replace it. It's not doing anything creepy!
(Also, do check out Vinegar's companion app, Baking Soda. It's essentially a less powerful version of Vinegar, but it works on all websites except YouTube.)
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  • Is Vinegar free?

    Yes, Vinegar is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.

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    Vinegar is free.

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Vinegar Reviews

Great extension, but

Emoji deprived on

Pakistan

1) Why is the full screen icon so small and in the top left? Kind of inconvenient to reach. 2) Some youtube videos don’t show the best available video quality in the video player. Otherwise, great extension :)

Didn’t work for me

imyDroid on

United States

iPhone 12 user

Great!

alydhiends on

United States

Finally, I can see YouTube subtitles in Safari (Fullscreen/PiP). *Not sure if this is possible with a third party app, but my only wish would be more subtitle controls: 1. The ability to disable the fade-in effect for subtitles. Most of the dramas on youtube, their subtitles are poorly timed. They just popup and disappear in a blink. And with the fade-in effect, it makes it worse. 2. It would also be great to be able to offset subtitles or add a 1-second tail or more. The less the subtitle gaps the better, it gives people ample amount of time to completely read them. I hope this is possible with Vinegar. 🙏 Thank you!

Thank you for adding SponsorBlock support

michaelmeep on

United States

A year or so ago I tried Vinegar and loved it but uninstalled due to incompatibility with SponsorBlock. Now it works just fine and auto-skips as configured. Thank you for making this

Was hoping for an Audio Only option but the app does what it says

Jrb3do on

United States

I was hoping this app would provide a way to play videos in the background like Android phones do where the phone screen times out and just the audio plays or where you can swipe up and send Safari into the floating island and have the audio only play there but so far I can’t play audio in the background this way, just picture-in-picture mode like the app. A suggestion for the developer to make this app really special would be to allow users to swipe up and play video audio only in the floating dynamic island. YouTube ads are blocked like the app description says as of the time of my review.

Worth it

Alpha Sigma Dude on

United States

I primarily use vinegar so I can listen to audiobooks on YouTube without constant adbreaks. It works as advertised. No regrets.

PnP and playing background broken!

Geuis on

United States

Oh no! This isn't related to the latest release of Vinegar I think. YouTube just did something and PnP isn't working. Can't play videos as background music anymore. This literally just started happening today 2/3/25. I updated Vinegar to the latest version and restarted Safari but the broken behavior is persisting. Dear developer, if you can fix it you need cash. Add a voluntary subscription or something if possible. This extension has worked for so many years you should be rewarded for maintaining it.

Skip track?

fiwbaoxjabwogjcb on

United States

App is great but it replaces the option to skip to the next video with skipping by 10 seconds instead, can you add an option to change this? It makes skipping songs a bit annoying

Essential Extension

dessertstorm on

United States

Been using Vinegar for a few years. Does what it says: native controls and no ads. I do hope the developer is able to bring back AirPlay compatibility.

Buggy (or doesn’t work with other extensions)

Square ◼️ on

United States

For reference, I also use AdGuard Pro, StopTheMadness Pro, Hush, NextDNS, and Userscripts. I have tried messing with my iPhone’s subtitle settings, alternating between Vinegar and Extract, messing with settings on the other apps I use, making absolutely sure that the app is updated, and restarting my phone, but I still cannot get subtitles to appear on YouTube videos that I know have them. The additional options that are supposed to appear at the top (video quality, loop, replay) also do not appear. It’s possible that I am overblocking with my other extensions, but I’m not sure how that would affect a video player’s ability to show subtitles. Since showing subtitles while still being able to watch videos in fullscreen is one of my main reasons for using this app, it makes me disappointed to see it failing to do that.

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