What’s the catch? Aggressive ad load — reported by 47 users.
Analyzed automatically from 3 independent signals that had to agree — not a hands-on test, and not human-reviewed.
This analysis describes version 9.40 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 9.40, updated 2026-10-04.
What the analysis found
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
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.
Aggressive ad load
Love it. — i love using this app, im on the free version though, can ya'll just tone the amount if ads down just a bit sheeesh! there is an ad after every song.
Get Spotify — Way too expensive Free version is filled with 2-3 min ads Heck some even 10 minutes Ad plays after nearly every song (Not joking) I wouldn’t mind the ads much if they weren’t super long where I have to drop what I’m doing to…
Ads — Way too many ads
Paywall blocks the basics
Free Tier is Completely Unusable — The free tier has become completely unusable for me. Lyrics now require Premium, background play is locked (music stops the second I switch apps or lock my phone), no offline downloads, no casting to my…
Locked features — I really don’t understand why they created a separate YouTube app for the purpose of playing music when it works exactly like the regular YouTube app. At a minimum it should allow you to play music with the screen off…
Free Version is unusable — The ads and inability to listen passively off the app is very bad user experience. You pretty much have to pay a lot of money per month to access a bearable experience.
Price keeps rising
FIX YOUR APP!!! — !!!!!! How do you raising the price of the subscription but the quality of this app keeps going down. Seems like every day I’m having some sort of issue with this app not loading properly and music not playing when it…
YouTube music constantly stops — YouTube raised prices and cut down on usage. Now the music app stops if I am listening to music and scrolling on my iPad because i am using too many devices. That’s without even watching a video On the…
Loyal Customer Unsubscribing — I have been a loyal YouTube customer for over 10 years now. The features have not changed yet. The price still keeps going up dollar by dollar year after year. It started out as about $15 for a family plan…
How the automated analysis works
This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
Several measurements above say “Not assessed” because no artefact we hold can answer them. A human review is what resolves those — and it can remove a favourable band as easily as add one.
Hands-on inspections are not yet open.