Vinegar - Tube Cleaner

Play in background not working

Does exactly as advertised, I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Title says all. App is unusable, you can’t exit full screen. Don’t buy.

That's the perfect extension. Finally, I can watch my youtube videos without interrupting with ads. I can use the keyboard shortcuts. The support is quick and lovely. Many-many thanks for this.

iPhone 12 user

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!

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

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.

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

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.