Play: Save Videos Watch Later

This application is a disgrace.

Great idea for an app, pretty clean and easy to use. BUT: - Clicking the "filters" button doesn't show options for filtering, it just says "filtered by: new" without offering other options for filtering - Being able to filter by genre, type of content, streaming service, duration, etc. is a must to find something to watch - cmd select multiple items is buggy, it unselects randomly and sometimes the item shows as unselected but when applying a tag it still applies it - iCloud sync is unreliable, sometimes getting stuck on "syncing", closing and reopening the app syncs everything in a few seconds - Auto-tagging is great but doesn't allow to set rules based on description or notes, which would be the most useful - Importing from streaming services watchlists would be a killer feature. Of course it's not possible with APIs, but maybe a browser plugin could read what's in an open list? - It would be great if it could sync with a watch tracker like TV time, Letterboxd, etc. Also syncing watch later lists between these services. Great potential, but would need a little bit of improvement before making you pay for the app. And some of the features mentionned above would make great incentives for the premium subscription instead of just YT channels.

This app helped me so much to stop endlessly clicking on the next video youtube suggests to me. I can simply add videos to play via the share extension once or twice a day, and when I feel like watching a video I can go through the app and watch something that I selected myself. I found it's also a useful tool to keep track of some videos like guides for example by tagging them accordingly.

Funktioniert nicht

Keep your money !

Hello. Love your app. Besides tags, would be nice to be able to create folders / subfolders. What do you think?

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.