ASJTube

Downloads, background audio and an ad-free YouTube — without changing how the app looks.

Everything lives in one place: an ASJTube tab in YouTube's own bar.

My Library - everything you saved, laid out like Home

Every rung the video has, with the size before you commit

Clear Mode - the interface out of the way

The save button in the row under the video

Updates and new tweaks: ASJ Tweaks on Telegram

Downloads

Save any video or Short — from the player, from a long press, from the Shorts button, or from YouTube's own Download row
My Library — a feed of what you saved, laid out like Home, with its own player, playlists, Watch later and a storage bar
Background playback and Picture in Picture for your own files

Playback

Watch videos in high quality — pinned to the best rendition the video has
Background Playback — audio keeps going when you leave the app or lock the screen
Picture in Picture — starts on its own, no button to press
Autoplay when a video finishes, and no suggested grid at the end
Progress bar in Shorts

Remove Ads — feed, search, Shorts and the player alike, refused before a card is ever built
Non-skippable breaks are seeked past, skippable ones are skipped the moment the app allows it
The Premium prompts, the upsell panels and the in-app surveys are all declined

Extras

Lyrics for the song a video plays
Copy and translate any text — a title, a description, a comment or one of its replies
Hide Shorts, hide the create button, open the app on Shorts
Require Face ID to open YouTube
Open links in Safari instead of the in-app browser
Follows YouTube's own language — all 79 of them

Not jailbroken?

TrollStore build — keeps YouTube's own entitlements and all of its app extensions. Anything else: sideload the IPA, or inject the dylib into your own copy.

Contact

support@ahmadrashed.com

Changelog

1.3

Every menu, message and dialog is the app's own now. Same look, same place, same wording as YouTube.
Downloads report the way YouTube reports its own — a notification at the bottom, and rows at the top of My library.
Opening a YouTube link from Safari no longer closes the app.
General improvements and fixes.

1.2.1

Works with every YouTube version.
Picture in Picture no longer turns itself on. YouTube's own switch is now turned off for each account you sign in with.
General improvements and fixes.

1.2

Playback quality fixes.
No more "Something went wrong" on Wi-Fi. A weak or busy connection now steps down a quality rung instead of giving up.
General improvements and fixes.

1.1

Copy and translate inside a comment. From the comment's own three dots, replies included — and the long press now opens YouTube's own sheet.
Translate into any language, on any iOS. The list used to come up empty on older devices.
Supports older versions of YouTube, not just the newest one.
History and playlists no longer empty out with Remove recommended videos at the end turned on.
General improvements and fixes.

1.0

First release.