Review signals only — 2 user-reported signals — from user reviews, not yet audited by Appworthy.
Reported by users
What reviewers said
Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.
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Works Great But Please Fix the Playlist Shuffle Bug! — I’ve had ProTube for months now and use it every day. It’s a great alternative to YouTube. But one of the main reasons I even got it was because I would get bombarded with ads on…
Comment section broken — These plugs into YT are a great idea if they could limit the bugs. The comment section closes on itself after 6 seconds. So can’t comment unless you can’t type and hit reply in under 5 seconds. Would be nice to…
Youtube made a huge mistake — I was fine with YouTube ads while they were reasonable. I even made purchases based on some of those ads. However, at some point YouTube started showing way more ads, sometimes several five minute long…
No ad complaints
It's good — The app works as described. There's no ads, not even while scrolling the homepage.
No ads — Haven’t gotten a single add using this and everything runs smoothly
Delete YouTube, get this instead — Got tired of all the ads on YouTube. Decided to give this a shot. Easy way to amp up my life, free, no ads, 10/10
What this app sells
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
Show 2 more purchases we couldn’t categorise
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
How a review signal works
A review signal is produced automatically from public app reviews by a classifier — never by a hands-on Appworthy test, and never by a human analyst. It exists so a real, not-yet-audited app can carry more than a blank “Not yet tested” listing, without ever being mistaken for an assessment.
A theme only appears above once at least 5 distinct reviews corroborate it — one angry review can never tag an app. These thresholds are published settings and may be tuned as coverage grows.
It carries no confirmed findings — reviews are one kind of evidence, and nothing here has been hands-on tested. The moment Appworthy publishes a full assessment of this app, it replaces this signal, permanently.
A human review replaces this review-derived signal with hands-on, recorded measurements.
Hands-on inspections are not yet open.