Switching to Play as My "Secondary" YouTube Client
Switching to Play as My "Secondary" YouTube Client
A few weeks ago when I shared my iPad Home Screen, I effusively mentioned the Unwatched app, a Castro-inspired media player that allows you to save YouTube videos for later and manage them with a triage-based system. I continue to think that Unwatched is one of the most promising new apps released in 2024, and I hope the developer continues working on it and iterating on its performance. Unfortunately, due to sync issues I couldn’t figure out with my iCloud account, I had to stop using Unwatched. The app’s sync essentially stopped working once I began trying to use it across the iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro, and I was never able to fix it. Like I said, I hope the developer can get to the bottom of this, and if so, I’ll give Unwatched another try.
But this is not a story about Unwatched’s sync issues; rather, I want to focus on the app I chose to replace it, the longtime MacStories favorite Play by Marcos Tanaka. John reviewed the original version of Play in February 2022 and later covered its 2.0 update featuring even deeper YouTube integration in November 2023. In case you missed our original coverage, here’s a summary: