Better Player for Youtube

Description

Better Player is a Safari extension that turns a YouTube page into a dark room with one lit thing in it: the video you came to watch. NO ADS Ad slots are hidden by a stylesheet before the page first paints, the ones YouTube injects into the feed afterwards are cleared, and a skippable ad in the player has Skip pressed for it as soon as the button appears. An unskippable ad still has to play — nothing here breaks YouTube's playback to get around one. FOCUS MODE A dark layer covers the page and the video is lifted through it, centred in the window. Nothing is removed and nothing is rearranged — scroll down and the comments are exactly where YouTube put them. Press the close button in the corner and the lights come back up. ON IPHONE YouTube serves its phone layout there, and Better Player gives you the playback bar — Picture in Picture, back and forward ten seconds, play, full screen — the ad blocking, and full screen that works with the rotation lock on: swipe down on the video and it turns sideways to fill the screen, with double-tap to skip and a drag along the bottom edge to scrub. AMBIENT LIGHT Better Player reads the frame on screen five times a second and paints its colours back out behind the video as a soft glow. A reef throws blue across the page; a field of mushrooms throws yellow-green. It drifts as the scene moves and stops when you pause. How far it spreads and how strong it is are yours to set. SHORTS A reel gets the same treatment: lit, with the guide dimmed and the column of buttons beside it out of the way. One switch keeps focus mode to watch pages instead. CONTROLS WHERE YOUR HANDS ARE Back and forward ten seconds, play and pause, previous and next, home, Picture in Picture, full screen — laid over the dimmed page, large enough to hit without aiming. Every button can be switched off; keep the two you use. PRIVACY Better Player is a Safari extension and nothing else. There is no backend it could send anything to, no analytics inside it, and no sign-in. Your settings stay on your device. Safari asks for permission on youtube.com because restyling that page is the whole job. FREE No in-app purchases, no subscription, no ads in the app. One app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. ELEVEN LANGUAGES English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified, Traditional and Cantonese), German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. WHAT RUNS WHERE Focus mode, ambient light, centring and Shorts are built on YouTube's desktop site — that is what iPad loads; on iPhone, ask Safari for the desktop site and they come with it. Better Player for Youtube is also available in the Mac App Store.

• Full screen with the rotation lock on. Swipe down on the video, or tap the full-screen button, and it turns sideways to fill the screen. Double-tap either side to skip ten seconds, drag along the bottom edge to scrub, swipe down again or tap the close button to come back. • "Skipping ad" shows at the top while an ad is being dealt with, with a count once it takes a moment. • The phone bar is now Picture in Picture, back, play, forward, full screen. • The video stays centred when ambient light gives up on a dark scene, and in layouts that used to leave it off to one side. • The extension starts even when the app is slow to answer, instead of sitting the page out. • Bug fixes.

Information

Seller

Minwoo Lee

Category

Entertainment

Version

1.5.0

Requires

iOS 16.0+

Size

87.3 MB

Age Rating

4+