Unwatched for YouTube
Player & Watch Later Queue
Free
Follow YouTube channels or add Videos to watch them later
KEY FEATURES
• The Queue
No autoplay, no algorithmic bottomless feed. Just the Videos queued up in the order you want to.
• Follow Channels or Playlist
Automatically add new videos
• Triage
Choose where new videos of each channel should end up. Directly on top of the queue, or in your inbox to sort through them. Pick the best, leave the rest.
• Sick of #shorts?
Hide them all if you want.
• Custom Playback Speed Per Channel
Set custom speeds for any channel. Want to watch trailers in 1x and podcasts in 2x? You can.
• Chapter Support
Jump to any chapter or pick and choose a few to watch while skipping the rest.
MORE
• Picture-in-Picture (+ Background Audio)
• Drag and drop videos & channel urls
• Shortcut support
• Continuous play
• Notifications
• Sleep Timer
• Custom Themes
• Directly Import YouTube Subscriptions
• iCloud Sync
more Fix: App freeze on iOS 17.5
v1.8.4 19 Mar
- Safari extension to open YouTube links inside Unwatched
- Cloud AI chapter generation option executes the shortcut directly
- Added "Search YouTube" quick action
- Added options to auto-delete videos (settings → user data)
- Added custom PiP on macOS (menu bar → View → Toggle PiP)
- Added unwatched://queue url scheme (thanks cdf1982!)
# Small adjustments
- Seeking backwards jumps over inactive chapters
- Subscribe to channels via in-App browser even with RSS feeds down
- De-prioritize certain colors from becoming the channel accent color
- Avoid storing new #shorts if they’re hidden
- FAQ adjustment
# Fixes
- Fix: liquid glass effect in menu
- Fix: video detail actions shown in player on iPad
- Fix: video detail thumbnail placeholder height
- Fix: cleanup multiple queue entries linked to the same video
- Fix: crash when adding video to inbox multiple times
- Fix: no cookies mode location reference
- Potential fix: web player play/pause behavior
- Potential fix: audio cutting out
1.8.3 17 Mar
# Quick inbox triage
- Open detail view for any video inside the inbox
- Queue or clear via the bottom actions row, the next video will automatically open
# Watch time statistics (Premium)
- Statistics view under Library → Watched, showing the total time per channel & day
- Any time frame can be manually deleted
- Watch statistics can be excluded in backup settings
# Small improvements
- Added “Queue from Clipboard” quick action
- Added fallback for missing thumbnail sizes
# Fixes
- Fix: browser subscribe error translation
- Fix: unnecessary custom chapter marker at start
- Fix: browser closing on rotate
- Fix: “Play from Clipboard” quick action on launch
- Fix: right click to queue inside browser (macOS)
- Fix: playback speed resetting when double-tapping back to start
- Fix: video durations not loaded correctly on start (Premium)
- Fix: scroll to correct chapter position with disabled chapters
- Fix: subscription accent color not updating live
- Fix: opening subscription detail from fullscreen popup breaks menu
- Fix: description view jumping when scrolling during playback
1.8.2 21 Jan
# Video detail changes
- Added thumbnail
- Added Queue actions (iOS 26 & visionOS)
# In-App browser changes
- Option to open video via context menu if auto-play is enabled
- Hide shorts applies to subscription tab
- Hide “open app” button
# Small adjustments
- Improved scrolling performance
- Adjusted landscape fullscreen to iPhone 17 lineup
- Show surrounding lines during transcript search
- Auto-cleanup image cache
# Fixes
- Fix: migrating browser as tab setting
- Fix: light mode color issue
- Fix: restore sheet detents on startup
- Fix: reset temporary speed when interacting with speed control
# visionOS
- Swipe gesture for chapters
- Indicator for temporary speed change (swipe up/down)
- Adjusted double tap seek time
- Show “clear” option in more player more menu
- Fix: window resizing when starting in fullscreen
- Fix: minimum window size
- Fix: open browser highlight
- Fix: queue last adds oldest videos on top
- fix: unsubscribe from inside browser
1.8.1 15/12/2025
- Native visionOS Support
- Show chapter indicators on YouTube’s progress bar
- Attempt to continue audio playback in background
# Small UI Adjustments
- Tweaks for iOS 26.1
- Glass effect sidebar on macOS 26
- Video status readability improvements
- Adjusted list row separator
# Settings
- Hide shorts setting applies to “shorts”-tab on YouTube
- Option to disable YouTube Browser entirely (Settings → Appearance → YouTube Browser → Disabled)
- Option to disable individual swipe gestures (Settings → Playback)
- Delete logs requires confirmation
- Themes & pre-selecting chapters requires premium
- Moved “cleanup duplicates” to User Data settings
- Force original audio on by default
- FAQ adjustments
# Fixes
- Fix: playback sometimes started by itself when opening the app
- Fix: macOS sidebar corner radius
- Fix: fullscreen control sometimes always visible during live streams
- Fix: player page indicator UI
- Fix: player overlay getting stuck in some cases
- Potential fix: videos sometimes not loading
1.8.0 26/11/2025
- “Title contains” filter mode
- “Queue last” option for shortcut & browser context menu
# Small improvements
- Onboarding/empty player UI adjustments
- Videos added via shortcut no longer marked as new
- Ad-interuption indicators hidden from video track
- Small performance improvements
# Fixes
- Fix: native video player opening when scrolling YouTube with “force native player” enabled
- Fix: missing shortcut error message when transcript is unavailable
- Fix: some channels not recognized inside the browser
- Fix: adding subscription with no videos in rss feed
- Fix: timestamp not being used when adding certain urls
- Fix: YouTube “sign in” link inside the player should now open the in-app browser instead of doing nothing
- Fix: deleted video not being cleared from the player
- Fix: last video not being removed from player
- Fix: “search YouTube” not working on macOS
- Fix: chapter settings button on macOS
- Fix: “+” duration layout padding
- Fix: undo remove final video broke playback
- Potential fix: overlay stuck
- Potential fix: black screen video on startup
1.7.1 07/10/2025
# OS 26
- Updated to liquid glass
- Updated icons
# Shortcuts
- Added "open Unwatched" lock screen widget
- Option to "add video" via shortcut to inbox
- Added "set continuous play" shortcut
- Added "loop video" to playback settings
# Premium
Introducing a Premium tier that unlocks additional features. For now, anyone can enable it indefinitely with a free trial; there is no paid option yet.
- See all durations of new videos and whether the video is upcoming/live or fully out
- Customizable temporary speeds (default speed is now 0.6x & 2x)
- Auto-play browser videos in-app: if enabled, tapping videos inside the browser will automatically play them in Unwatched
- Generate chapters via Apple Intelligence (experimental)
- OS 26-specific chapter generation shortcut that no longer requires an additional AI app
# Small Adjustments
- Requires iOS 17.2, dropping support for iOS 17.0/iOS 17.1
- Replaced "drop" area in browser with long press to queue/subscribe/add to inbox
- In-app browser keeps the current page when reopened
- FAQ adjustments
- Option to restore original chapters
# Privacy
- Added privacy-friendly anonymous analytics via TelemetryDeck (can be disabled under Settings → Privacy Policy)
- Added privacy & what's new links to settings
# Fixes
- Fix: hide menu on play setting on iPad
- Fix: video time jumping back due to sync
- Fix: sheet animation issues (jumping, transition)
- Fix: generated chapters resetting
- Fix: logging breaking playback speed
1.7.0 15/09/2025
- Improved performance & reliability of #shorts detection
- Improved thumbnail quality for expansive list format
- Added support for YouTube live stream urls
1.6.10 30/08/2025
- Custom URL scheme to play a video (e.g. unwatched://play?url=https://www.youtube.com/watch…)
- Option to automatically remove “new” status
- Updated generate chapters shortcut
# Fixes
- Fix: drag sheet when YouTube tab is selected
- Fix: video zoom issue
- Fix: reload while playing continues playing the video
- Fix: some player overflow issues
- Fix: unsubscribe in browser
- Fix: missing AirPlay symbol on iOS 17
1.6.9 21/08/2025
- “Hide shorts” setting also applies to in-App browser
- “Undo” for queue
- Always show time during portrait playback
- Copy url for any chapter
- Hide status bar for iPad fullscreen mode
# Fixes
- Fix: YouTube overlay not being hidden correctly
- Fix: clear current video unreliable
- Fix: startup crash
1.6.8 06/08/2025
- Updated App Store Screenshots
- Updated Generate Chapters Shortcut
1.6.7 27/07/2025
- View and search video transcripts
- Option to force original audio
- Greatly improved voice-over support
# Shortcuts
- Shortcut that generates chapters (via Claude)
- Shortcut action to get the transcript
- Shortcut action to set chapters
- Shortcut action for next/previous chapter
- Keyboard shortcut to open video in-app or browser
# Small Improvements
- UI tweaks & performance improvements
- Improved sync cleanup
- Videos added in-app no longer marked as “new” (e.g. via browser or pasting url)
- List item performance improvements
- Improved loading video info fallback
- Add “continuous play” to playback settings
- Using SponsorBlock chapters if available
# Fixes
- Fix: tap to queue inside videos for new embedded player
- Fix: subscription navigation title overflow
- Fix: jumping speed control
- Fix: adding subscriptions via certain URLs
- Fix: avoid duplicates with Mac app open
1.6.6 25/07/2025
- Support for new embedded YouTube player
- Video title keyword filter (global or per subscription)
- More granular speed adjustments
- Font & subscription detail UI improvements
# Small Improvements
- Keyboard shortcuts for switching tabs
- Translucent popovers
- Adjusted seek keyboard shortcut time
- Improved sync cleanup
- FAQ adjustments
- Faster loading of videos inside the library
- Improved player animations on iPad
# Fixes
- Fix: player only ever showing website
- Fix: “view on youtube” button in landscape
- Fix: defer date selection cut off
- Fix: UI glitch when copying video url via player
- Fix: crash when using undo inside the inbox
- Fix: rotate on play setting interfering on macOS
- Fix: vertical fullscreen player layout iPad
1.6.5 22/06/2025
- “New” state for videos
- Keyboard shortcuts: playback speed, show description, refresh, fullscreen
- “Open in safari” browser button
- Filter settings sync between devices
# Fullscreen Improvements (iPhone)
- Chapter list includes description
- Fills space more efficiently
- Controls appear opposite to notch/dynamic island
- Overlay ui adjustments
# Fullscreen Improvements (iPad/Mac)
- Controls better adapt to different window sizes
- Improved fullscreen player on Mac (only centered video visible; double click, YouTube button or shortcut to toggle on/off)
- Option to hide fullscreen controls
# Small improvements
- French translation improvements (thanks sweetpufferfish)
- Correct start time when adding videos (manually via urls, queue/play via browser)
- Paste button no longer requires prompt
- Performance improvements
- Hint & suggested action to clear inbox
- Updating channel specific aspect ratio to most recently played video
- Ask to remove shorts from inbox when hiding them
- Removed “last cleared from inbox” filter
- Chapter parsing & merging
- Scroll to current chapter when opening description (iPad, Mac)
- Surface player errors with report option
- Option to save and export logs
- Updated faq
- Deferred date improvements (remember recognized date, queue videos next, clear notification action)
# Fixes
- Fix: broken player controls
- Fix: audio kept playing after closing window (Mac)
- Fix: scroll to top after removing top most item
- Fix: keep player controls visible during interactions
- Fix: keyboard shortcuts reliability
- Fix: defer date sheet appearance
- Fix: dismiss description detail (Mac)
- Fix: speed control when no channel is available
- Fix: “more” menu stays open with active timer
- Fix: parsing pasted urls with surrounding text
- Fix: “open browser” touch target
- Fix: player controls overflow (Mac)
- Fix: removed yt.lemnoslife (no longer operating)
- Fix: restore window position & size (Mac)
- Fix: clear swipe action only shown when applicable
- Fix: cursor flickering
1.6.4 04/06/2025
- Spanish translation
- Chapters support attached URLs
- Live update for current position & video
- Option to hide sidebar on play (Mac)
- Copy url options: timestamped, channel, playlist, rss feed
- Precise chapter skipping
# Small Improvements
- Longer chapter titles
- Relative video date
- Small animation improvements
- Improved import subscription instructions
- Improved #shorts detection
- Show clear all for one video
- Persist window frame position/size (Mac)
- List update performance improvement
- Replaced “enable watch history” with “no cookies mode”
- Chapter parsing improvements
# Fixes
- Fix: videos without a subscription can be deleted anywhere
- Fix: slow toggle sidebar animation (Mac)
- Fix: slower temporary playback speed for less than 1x
- Fix: update video duration ui immediately
- Fix: chapter list popover height
- Fix: auto play for non-embedded videos (Mac)
- Fix: unschedule message for deleted video
- Fix: dark appearance in light mode color
- Fix: backup “refresh ignores sync” setting
1.6.3 02/05/2025
- Landscape fullscreen: change playback speed by scrolling (iPhone)
- Player controls take up less height in fullscreen mode (iPad, Mac)
- Show/hide fullscreen controls improvements (iPad, Mac)
- Added playback options tip
- Auto-enable theater mode for non-embedding videos
- Small UI adjustments
# Sync behavior
- Always allow manual refresh during sync
- Reload & dedupe cleans up everything, not just videos
- Added option to automatically refresh during sync
# Fixes
- Fix: shifting entries
- Fix: tap on current tab behavior
- Fix: feedback if drop in browser fails
- Fix: YouTube settings didn’t open
- Fix: share links as url instead of text (affects share sheet actions)
- Fix: center touch to play/pause ignored vertical position
- Fix: only queue/inbox notification & badge
- Fix: keyboard shortcuts for non-embedding videos
- Fix: player controls make space for #shorts
- Potential fix: background refresh (iOS)
- Potential fix: library crash
- Potential fix: entries disappearing during sync
## Mac
- Fix: image cache directory
- Fix: "new videos in inbox tip"
- Fix: context menu icons
- Fix: light mode issues
- Potential fix: some crashes
1.6.2 02/04/2025
- Native macOS version
- Moved menu to the left
- Defer date selection improvements
- Player scrubber can be clicked to seek (macOS)
- Removed watch in browser button (macOS)
# Fixes
- Fix: auto dubbing (macOS)
- Fix: seek before video has started playing
- Fix: refresh indicator stuck
- Fix: context menu color
- Fix: speed control drag handle tap
- Fix: empty entries
- Fix: keyboard shortcuts being captured by web player
1.6.0 17/03/2025
- Share/copy uses shortened urls
- Option to minimize player overlays
# Fixes
- Fix: incorrect user name parsing
- Fix: player sometimes stuck
- Fix: background crash
1.5.7 12/03/2025
Fix: iPad layout issue
1.5.6 20/02/2025
- Fix: light/dark mode issues
- Fix: player UI issue on iPad
1.5.5 19/02/2025
- Playback destination picker
- Pop up for description & chapters on iPad/Mac
- “AirPlay HD” option (long press on playback picker or auto enable via Settings → Playback)
- Polish translation (thanks Kroguc)
- French translation
- Option to force-disable captions
- Correct #shorts detection when playing video
- Removed light player appearance option
# Fixes
- Fix: white YouTube player scrubber
- Fix: autoplay with watch history turned off
- Fix: play when dropping top video back into same position
- Fix: sub detail bottom header overflow
- Fix: browser play button overlay during drag & drop
- Fix: youtube urls with additional query parameter
- Fix: next chapter button issues during final chapter
1.5.4 18/02/2025
# Small Improvements
- More playback speed options
- Onboarding improvements
- UI improvements (speed selection, player, fullscreen controls, …)
- Defer date pre-fills with next full hour
- Support for google redirect urls
- Export backup
# Fixes
- Fix: ignore tapping on current video url inside the player
- Fix: re-enable timer after having been turned off
- Fix: missing settings in backup
- Fix: browser drop area inaccessible on iPad
- Fix: launching in landscape led to incorrect mini player size
- Fix: open sheet when opening a notification
- Fix: fullscreen popover position
- potential fix for some crashes
# Mac
- Option to watch video in browser
- Fix: backup device name
- Fix: “add to unwatched” shortcut
1.5.3 09/02/2025
- Defer (scheduled or normal) videos to reappear in the future
# Small Adjustments
- Adjusted scrubber animation
- Added bluesky link
- Clear empty queue & inbox entries via debug option
# Fixes
- Fix: library crash on iOS 18.3
- Fix: disappearing SponsorBlock chapters
- Fix: auto hide controls on iPad
- Fix: adding embedded youtube urls via library text field
- Fix: endless loop when skipping a final chapter
- Fix: update thumbnail image of playlist subscriptions
1.5.2 26/01/2025
- Delete videos (anywhere except queue & inbox)
- Tap videos inside player to queue them
- Loop playback option (long press "next" button)
- Filter chapters automatically using keywords (Settings → Filter)
# More
- Revised bookmark icon & text
- Added haptics for sheet position changes
- Enhanced scrubber visibility
# Fixes
- Potential fix: crashes
- Fix: dismissing shorts tip
- Fix: PiP setting persists during player reload
- Fix: aspect ratio now corrects properly on playback
- Fix: mini player stability with secondary sheet
- Fix: iPad tab view display in portrait mode
1.5.1 19/01/2025
# Player
- Simplify navigation by keeping sheet always visible
- Combined chapters & description (tap on the title or swipe left on the player)
- Added scrubber with chapter indicators
- double tap left/right on the player background to seek backward/forward
- long press left/right side of player background to slow down/speed up
- “More” button with additional actions accessible in landscape fullscreen & on iPad
- Long press title to view on YouTube
- Pip persisted across launches and videos
# More
- Added “queue last” option
- “Hide #shorts” setting custom per channel
- “Add subscription” shortcut
- New keyboard shortcuts on iPad
- Keyboard shortcuts show up when holding down cmd
- Option to only restore settings from backup
- Option to import playlist videos into the inbox
- Long press fullscreen button to rotate the other way around
# Fixes & improvements
- Scroll back to current item after clearing items above
- Improved chapter detection
- Fix: sync indicator missing during initial sync
- Fix: infinite loop when skipping chapters with incorrect start/end time
1.5.0 31/12/2024
Fix: App freeze on iOS 17.5
more Version v1.8.4 19 Mar
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Supported Features
VoiceOver
Larger Text
Dark Interface
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