United States** Featured on The Verge, Daring Fireball, 9to5Mac, MacStories, Mac Power Users, iMore, AppAdvice & more! ** Play is the best way to bookmark and organize videos to watch later. Add videos via the Share Sheet, drag and drop them, import from a playlist, or automatically from YouTube channels*. Organize them with tags, add notes, assign a star rating, and more. Watch supported YouTube videos in-app for a native experience. Follow YouTube channels and get new videos as they're released*. Easily save videos you want to watch and delete the rest. iCloud sync keeps your database up-to-date on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. You can also add and customize Interactive Widgets to quickly view and access your videos. Play automatically fetches metadata and saves videos from a wide range of platforms. You can also add videos manually by filling in all the required fields. ADD VIDEOS - Add from another apps using the Share Sheet, drag and drop, or importing from a YouTube playlist. - Follow YouTube channels to get new videos as they're released. Easily save videos you want to watch and delete the rest* - Use Shortcuts actions to integrate Play into your automated workflows. - Play also supports links to movie reviews, Instagram Reels, social network posts with an embedded video, and so on. WATCH - Watch supported YouTube videos in app using the native iOS player. - Save interesting videos throughout the day and watch them later on your Apple TV. - Control your playback position and start playing from where you left off. - Quickly access your saved videos on widgets for your Home Screen. - Configure custom YouTube instances such as Invidious and Piped. ORGANIZE YOUR COLLECTION - Add notes and star rating. - Create and assign tags. - Use Auto-Tagging to tag videos automatically based on the rules you set. - Create a Smart Search to filter videos based on a set of rules you customize. - Use Focus Filter with Focus to limit the videos and tags shown in the app. - Perform bulk actions and organize multiple videos at once. - All Play features and data are available through the Shortcuts app, so you can create custom shortcuts and automate your workflow. - iCloud automatically syncs your database to your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. Play is a modern app with support for the latest system features. It is also available on the Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro as a universal app, so you can enjoy it across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and visionOS with a single purchase. * The Channels feature requires Play Premium subscription. Privacy Policy: https://marcosatanaka.com/privacy/play.html Terms of Use: https://marcosatanaka.com/terms/play.html
Please create a way to filter I watched/watched videos within tag lists
I have moved all my YouTube queue management to Play and use tags to create dynamic playlists. However, I find that there is no good way to easily flip between tag views of watched vs I watched vs all videos, making it hard to see what I haven’t watched yet. Please add an app-wide easily accessible toggle to allow filtering a set of tagged videos for new vs watched videos. Thank you.
United StatesA Dream App
Not crazy about this. A lot of manual work involved. I’m a YouTube junkie but even transferring a small amount of data took much energy and time. There’s also a bit of dishonest marketing here… First, this app is most optimal on the desktop/iPad (with updated iOS systems) rather than your phone because you can’t otherwise upload multiple playlists, efficiently anyway. Secondly, the app’s most useful feature of seeing new videos from your favorite channels is behind an additional paywall of $20/yr, or $3 monthly. So at bare minimum what you end up with, after buying entry into the app, is a library manager for already saved content with no fresh feed updates. What I desired most when downloading this was help managing my YT library but this is too isolated from the YT app to actually help with that. I’d have to go back and forth to update it and where’s the fun in that? I do respect this app though, as its one of a kind in YT video management, and is certainly sincere about what it offers. I just need a bit more from it to maximize my video watching time and initial data transfer. *********************************************** Developer notes for improvement: This app could really hike up its organizational features. MORE FRILLS, please. At the very least, the landing page should be centered around the latest vids from one’s channels (instead of going to a separate tab). It would be cool if the tags were called playlists since that’s what I imported them as. I also don’t know why the playlist name isn’t imported (more manual labor)! And, pleeeeease, it would be great to add a feature to mass import playlists… even if it’s just 5-10 at a time. I like the video notes feature but think it should be more prominently placed (maybe at the bottom where you can see the full text?) Also, a ‘like’ button perhaps instead of just a star rating system? Video topic tags should also be somehow auto-added from YouTube, especially since genre sections would be most sublime to put on the landing page, too. I also can’t tell whether I’ve watched the video on YT already. I suspect this requires access to my YT account (which you guys say apps aren’t authorized to do) but it was still a bummer to see my imported playlist and not see at glance what I’d already watched (…is there no way to access my watched history?) I would also like to know why a video fails to upload with playlist import. It currently doesn’t say which ones or why. In the ‘New from Creator,’ could you create that scrollable a-z list on the right? I found myself scrolling a long’s way down to find certain creators. Also, this is super random, but in the future could there be any way to filter out new vs. old channels? I ask because I know the younger channels need more support to keep going and I’d like to not forget about them. Lastly, one KILLER feature would be a curated viewing schedule (for each weekday). Reason being a lot of my faves post on specific days, and, of course, I’ll forget and it may take days for me to remember. It would be really cool to log on and go to whatever day, after assigning certain channels to it and be able to see their latest post. That would be DOPE!
United StatesVery handy!
Love this app, it makes it easier to procrastinate. Ha ha. Seriously, it's nice. Get it.
United StatesWhy is such an outstanding app so hard to find in the app store?
This app allows you to save and categorize a playlist of web videos for a viewing at later time. It has a great interface and widgets. It is constantly being improved to include more video sources. And one can always copy and paste the web address into Play. I couldn’t be happier with an app.
United StatesUpdated: App has improved - has real potential
Stopped using the app within a couple weeks. Decided to try again to see if maybe it was tolerable. It is. No longer seeing the prompts to upgrade on any of my devices. Thank you. But still has some deficiencies. I believe most simply fall into the area of better discovery and more transparency - both of which might be addressed by a trial period. But even with these few issues, the app shows a lot of promise and I applaud the dev for taking on developing an app based on a Google platform - not unlike balancing spinning plates on board a small boat in a tropical storm.
United StatesEase of use
It errors out when I try and add a playlist. Hard to get it to sync across devices. Wish you could play all of the episodes in a channel without having to do stuff after each video. It really fills a needs, just wish it was more solid.
United StatesFantastic Alternative to YouTube Playlists
I’m a sucker for bespoke save-it-for-later apps and this one is excellent. I’m only hoping to see one feature added that would make this one of my favorite apps on my entire phone. Play already has some channel oriented content, but it’s just a feed from creators you subscribe to. What I would love to see is a section in the app where you can simply group the channels themselves into folders. That way when I find a creator who, for example, has excellent cooking advice, I could add their channel into a folder of those I follow for information related to that specific interest. This can sort of be accomplished by adding token videos from these channels to tag groups, but it feels very hacky.
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Fixed an issue where the app could crash when launched by users with numerous tags and tag folders. Previously
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