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Audio Podcast Support
- Add regular audio-only podcasts, continuous play can seamlessly switch between YouTube videos and RSS podcasts
- Generate transcript
- Auto-align podcast-provided transcripts with audio if needed
- Trim silence (Premium)
- Automatically download podcasts
- OPML import
Tag Support (Premium)
- Group videos, channels or podcasts into tags
- Options to include/exclude channels, untagged channels, podcasts, or individual videos
- Filter Queue based on tags
- Quickly switch between tags by swiping left/right on the title bar (or enabling quick switch and simply tap it)
- Custom tag settings: seek duration, playback speed & continuous play
Unified Search
- Search YouTube, Podcasts, play/add videos or subscribe to channels without visiting the YouTube website
- Filter search based on category or time
- Choose to show or hide recommended videos
Apple Watch App
- Playback controls for iPhone
- Supports full sync & standalone playback
Native player (Experimental)
- Enables reliable background playback & controls, at the cost of a lower video quality & no YouTube history sync
- Option to use minimized "custom overlays" full quality player
- "Prefer player type" setting to quickly switch between native player & previous selection
- Auto-enable PiP when leaving the app, or keep it audio only (long press the PiP button to enable/disable)
- Allows starting playback without opening the app first
Inbox Cards
- Alternative layout to quickly triage inbox, one video at a time
- Quickly switch between card view and list view
- Sort inbox ascending or descending
More Filters
- Skip intro/outro
- Auto skip chapters: re-applies unchecked chapters to future chapters (Premium)
Native Share Sheet
- Redesigned native share sheet, no setup required
- Pick the video action manually or set one to trigger automatically
- Directly subscribe to channel URLs
Player Controls
- iOS 27: easy to reach play button at the bottom
- Compact speed control (scroll up/down to quickly change speed)
- Prominent player seek buttons
- Re-arrange chapters to play in any order
- Per-channel override for sponsor & self promotion chapters
- Edge swipe inwards in landscape fullscreen to view description/chapters
Shortcuts
- Generate chapters via Cloud AI & iOS 27 notification automation (Premium)
- "Get list"
- "Get current" expanded
- "Play Next"
- "Play": start background playback, or play a specific tag
- "Set Chapters": merge into existing ones and set categories
- "Set Playback Speed"
- "Get transcript": generate transcript locally for Podcasts
- Playback: Shift+C to clear
- Menu command: View → Back
Smaller Stuff
- iPhone Duo support
- Global and per subscription setting to hide livestreams (Premium)
- Video detail view no longer shows up as a dedicated sheet
- Option to "show more" videos directly on the subscription page without opening YouTube
- iPad layout tweaks
- Onboarding: quickly add subscriptions/Podcasts
- Buttons to add YouTube links directly from the description
- Hide "AI" overlay for custom & minimal UI
- Smooth fade transition between videos
- Snap scrubber to chapter marks
- Url scheme: add to inbox (unwatched://inbox?url=...)
- Fallback relaid when YouTube RSS feeds are down
Improvements
- Fetch channel images more reliable
- macOS UI & interaction improvements
- visionOS improvements & fixes
- Improved current playback position sync between devices
- Pasting an URL opens the added content
- Allow adding subscriptions with RSS feeds unreachable
- Arrow keys follow custom seek duration
- Show warning if logged out of YouTube
- Improved reliability of YouTube refresh failure check
- Persist player tab macOS: remove outline of selected entry
- Improved video chapter detection
Fixes
- Potential fix: chapter toggle not shown correctly
- Potential fix: macOS window sizing jumping around
- Potential fix: crash during backup creation
- Fix: macOS player layout with sidebar hidden
- Fix: stuck loading indicator
- Fix: stuck video ended overlay
- Fix: expansive video list
- Fix: auto refresh before sync is done
- Fix: undo not working with continuous play
- Fix: context menu tap & hold no longer flickers and de-selects
- Fix: show reload button failure state on partial feed outages
- Fix: "repair" list entry removes duplicate entry
- Fix: cases where refresh happened during ongoing sync, leading to duplicates
- Fix: blank row in context menu (macOS)
- Fix: outline on list entries during interaction (macOS)
- Fix: synced settings not working with iCloud turned off
- Fix: cursor hidden when playback starts
- Fix: dragging window on macOS toggling play
Full Changelog: v1.8.11...v2.0.0