# Tube X - Without Ads

> Immersive video Player

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6541750751](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6541750751)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6541750751`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** 根清 宋
- **Category:** Entertainment
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (917 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.7.5
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-23
- **First published:** 2024-09-05
- **Size:** 95 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tube-x-without-ads/id6541750751)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://tubex.app/privacy](https://tubex.app/privacy)

## Description

Tube X is an immersive, ad-free YouTube viewer with a distraction-free full-screen player, background playback and Picture-in-Picture. It adds AI-generated real-time bilingual subtitles and AI voice reading, all at zero cost.

You can bookmark favorites locally (no login), enable auto-translation of video content, subtitles, and comments, and organize feeds with Spaces for learning, entertainment, or movies. Its advanced search delivers bilingual results across videos, livestreams, channels, and playlists, with smart link playback for quick starts. Tube X supports 80 languages and provides a free, privacy-friendly viewing experience.

## Review summary

Most reviews indicate the app fails to play content: persistent 'failed to load' errors, buffering, and general stability problems across languages. Many users report it used to work initially but regressed after updates, with no timely bug fixes. History/list refresh and sync issues further degrade experience, and a few mention device-specific problems. A small number still express positive sentiment or hope the app remains ad-free and affordable, but playback reliability is the dominant concern.

### Pros

- App reportedly worked fine for some users at first.
- A few reviewers express positive sentiment, saying they like it or that it's good (at least initially).
- Some users hope it will remain free of charge.

### Cons

- Video playback failures: many users cannot play videos, with repeated 'failed to load' or 'video cannot be loaded' errors.
- Buffering and endless loading spinner prevent playback.
- Lack of updates/bug fixes for a long period, with the app not working after updates.
- Watch history/content list issues and poor refresh/sync with YouTube, causing mismatches.
- Some device-specific problems reported (e.g., issues on iPhone 13).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6541750751)