Vinegar - Tube Cleaner

Name: Vinegar - Tube Cleaner
Price: 1.99 USD
Rating: 4.2 (754 reviews)
Author: And a Dinosaur

by And a Dinosaur

iPhone · iPad

Active Last checked 31 Jul 2026

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At a glance: $1.99

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Utilities
Photo & Video

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Key functions

Function	Availability	Access	Scope	Evidence
Family Sharing	Yes	Unknown	App Store	Store published

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Price: $1.99

Last verified 31 Jul 2026

Ratings & reviews

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4.2 754 ratings · App Store

5/5Great stuff, but
The only thing I would like to change about this is the ability to either pause and play with the controls on the Lock Screen, or the pull down menu once I close the app on the Home Screen. Both of these options to pause and play the music are either available or disappear completely sometimes. Also in a playlist, you must refresh the page to pause and play in the background, which has the same inconsistencies above of course.

No26323dhcdgn · 31 Jul 2026
2/5Bought to fix Safari playback issues, introduces its own playback issues.
I already had an Adblock extension working fine to stop ads, but Safari PiP would constantly pause playback when locking the screen or while multitasking. I thought I found my answer with Vinegar. Now my video audio continues when locking or multitasking, but now I can forget about a video automatically resuming where I left off after any lengthy pause, or even resuming at all without a page refresh. Because of the black screens of no playback, I am then forced to interact with the UI to troubleshoot and it really makes the UI feel clunky. If I didn’t have to press play/pause or PiP/close full screen so many times to try to get the page to resume where I left off in the video, the UI would be just fine. Refreshing the page starts the video back at 00:00, and it’s up to you to scrub to where you left off. My main use is to listen to 2+hr long content during commutes and Vinegar has made it very unenjoyable. Listening to say 47 minutes, pausing, going into work, leaving work, and then fighting the player to actually play and then scrubbing to find where I left off (hard to do if you don’t note what time you paused) just to do it over again the next time I hop in the car is not fun.

Shandito · 31 Jul 2026
1/5Was amazing up until about a month ago
I will change my stars back to five is this ever gets fixed, but as of now, its pretty impoosible to use across all platforms (MacOS, iOS, iPadOS) Weird thing is that each device does something else. All devices have the same issues in full screen mode where when the video file updates, it will shrink to the wondow size or theater size, almost all the time the video will stop working at some random reload point. Also, in MacOS it wont load the next video on a playlist. I've been using this app for over a year now with zero issues. But now its to annoyingly broken that I cant really use it at all. I hope this gets fixed soon. I know they are trying, but with every update there are either new issues or old one resurface. I do appricate the effort they have been putting in. I'm sure this is difficult to maintain with the constant changes and hurdles they have to go through.

enero · 31 Jul 2026
5/5Developer doing their best against YT’s actions
The developer is active in their efforts to provide the best experience possible. The constant changing of YT’s tactics, make it very difficult to provide a seamless experience. Current issue is that I use my iPad and audio only, when the video hits a ‘break’, the vinegar/safari forgets the audio only and starts to show the video, or pauses totally, until I interact with the browser. I know it can be fixed eventually and am patiently waiting.

SSteagles · 31 Jul 2026
2/5sorta works.
Seems interesting, but super buggy. does clear out ads, if you can get the video to actually play. Videos play fine in the little list windows, but go to open into a regular size window, it pops out, and does nothing most of the time. And, some videos I have to double click on, some I have to single click on, some don't work at all. OK, use the little "pop out" button, well the video pops out to a mini play just fine, but 9 times outa 10 it's just a black screen, no video playing, hit the play button? sure, still no video, oh and sometime the window thinks it's playing and there is a pause button. still no video.

Thomllama · 31 Jul 2026

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Versions

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3.1.5
- When clicking a /shorts link, reload the webpage to ensure Vinegar does not take effect.
3.1.7
- Fixed an issue with embedded video players.
3.1.8
- Fixed extra spacing in embedded video titles.
3.2.0
- (iOS-only) Added experimental AirPlay support to Vinegar using the "Ignore AI Dubs" toggle. - Note: Extract never had AirPlay support due to its different video format. - (iPad-only) Updated Fallback mode behavior.
3.2.1
Vinegar: - When you use AirPlay and a video finishes, the next video should start automatically. This works if the "Autoplay Next Video" setting is on and the webpage remains open. Extract: - When you turn off the "Show Toolbar" option, the video player should no longer cover the title.
3.2.2
- Rewrote the error message in Fallback mode to make it clearer. - Removed more overlay elements from mobile embeds.
3.2.3
- Made Fallback Mode more reliable because it was kicking in often for some users. - If Vinegar keeps switching to Fallback Mode, try using Extract instead. - Improved subtitle reliability in Extract.
3.2.4
- (Extract-only) Subtitle fetch failures no longer cause layout issues.
3.2.6
- (Vinegar-only) Reduced how often Fallback Mode triggers.
3.3.1
- (Vinegar-only) Fixed the "Ignore AI Dubs" feature after YouTube renamed the dubbed indicator. - (Vinegar-only) Attempts to remove the fake buffering before video playback. Results may vary.
3.3.10
Vinegar Changelog: - (iOS-only) Toolbar buttons now remain active when the playlist pane with videos is open. Vinegar Classic Changelog: - (iOS-only) Toolbar buttons now remain active when the playlist pane with videos is open.
3.3.2
- (iOS-only)(Vinegar-only) Stop YouTube from recreating the replaced player when "Ignore AI Dubs" is on or video quality isn't Auto. Previous Changelog: - (Vinegar-only) Fixed the "Ignore AI Dubs" feature after YouTube renamed the dubbed indicator. - (Vinegar-only) Attempts to remove the fake buffering before video playback. Results may vary.
3.3.3
- Renamed extensions: - Vinegar is now Vinegar Classic. - Extract is now Vinegar. - (Classic-only) Ensure AI dubs are ignored even when entering fallback mode. - (Classic-only) Restore the video title and thumbnail on the homescreen player when playing in audio-only mode.
3.3.4
Vinegar Changelog: - Fixed playback of embedded Reddit videos. - (iOS-only) Ensure video titles aren't covered before playback starts. - (iOS-only) Properly show and hide the toolbar when coming from search results. Vinegar Classic Changelog: - Enter Fallback Mode on any video player error. - Rewrote Fallback Mode's error message. - (iOS-only) Prevent homepage thumbnails from playing sound. - (iOS-only) Ensure video titles aren't covered before playback starts. - (iOS-only) Properly show and hide the toolbar when coming from search results.
3.3.5
Vinegar Changelog: - (iOS-only) Prevent homepage thumbnails from turning into videos. - (iPad-only) Hide the toolbar when it's set to hidden. - Attempt to fix occasional missing video controls. - Add a "Show Debug Info" button in the extension's popup. - Keep subtitles enabled for subsequent videos once turned on. Vinegar Classic Changelog: - Add a "Show Debug Info" button in the extension's popup. - Keep subtitles enabled for subsequent videos once turned on.
3.3.6
Vinegar Changelog: - (iOS-only) Fixed missing toolbar on older devices when opening videos via DuckDuckGo's !yt shortcut. Vinegar Classic Changelog: - Attempted to fix an issue on older operating systems where every video enters Fallback mode.
3.3.8
Vinegar Changelog: - Videos should be playable in the background by resuming them from the homepage player. - Fixed an issue on newer devices where playback started before the URL updated and prevented the toolbar from appearing. - (iPad-only) Fixed a bug that prevented the "hold spacebar for 2x speed" feature from returning to normal speed.
3.3.9
Vinegar Changelog: - (iOS-only) Fixed a bug where videos became unplayable if you navigated from a video to its channel page and then selected another video.
3.4.0
Vinegar Changelog: - Subtitles now work again after YouTube made changes that broke them. - Vinegar will now re‑enable itself correctly after leaving a YouTube Shorts page. Vinegar Classic Changelog: - Vinegar Classic will now re‑enable itself correctly after leaving a YouTube Shorts page.
3.4.1
Vinegar Changelog: - Fixed an issue where pinching a video to fullscreen would prevent the page from scrolling afterward. Vinegar Classic Changelog: - Fixed an issue where pinching a video to fullscreen would prevent the page from scrolling afterward.
3.4.2
Vinegar Changelog: - AirPlay streaming now works more reliably (though AI auto‑dub can't be disabled during AirPlay). Vinegar Classic Changelog: - No changes.
3.4.3
Vinegar Changelog: - Fixed toolbar not appearing when loading a Short in the regular video player. - Fixed PiP button breaking after the first video. Vinegar Classic Changelog: - Fixed a bug where the extension could fail to initialize on some pages.
3.4.4
Vinegar Changelog: - Fixed PiP becoming unresponsive after navigating to a different video. Vinegar Classic Changelog: - No changes.
3.4.5
Vinegar Changelog: - Fixed an issue where the player would not load on iPad. Vinegar Classic Changelog: - No changes.
3.4.6 · 17 Jun 2026
Vinegar Changelog: - Fixed an issue where captions could be unexpectedly enabled. - Added an "Always show subtitles" option in the extension settings. - Fixed clicking the Shorts tab not disabling Vinegar. - Fixed the Shorts feed page not loading. - Fixed embed player controls being unclickable. - Fixed embed video title not hiding during playback. Vinegar Classic Changelog: - Fixed an issue where captions could be unexpectedly enabled. - Added an "Always show subtitles" option in the extension settings. - Fixed clicking the Shorts tab not disabling Vinegar. - Fixed the Shorts feed page not loading. - Fixed embed player controls being unclickable. - Fixed embed video title not hiding during playback.

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