YouTube Music

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R25] 5/5 · US New Update is Nice: the new update has made the app cleaner and smoother. i would seriously recommended getting a youtube music subscription over spotify or apple music, heres why: 1. comes with youtube premium. watching ads is so obnoxious on youtube to me now. i got spoiled by premium. 2. sleeper algo. youtube music cooks with its suggestions. dont sleep on its algo. 3. you can put youtube video
2. [R63] 5/5 · US I have bug: It’s good. I like it cause it’s having all the music I want straight from the YouTube. But I am having bug in my playlist mixing up by it self 😭 solve it please please please
3. [R118] 5/5 · US Music to my ears: I love music it just soothes my soul you can find anything anytime anywhere what ever you want to jam out to YouTube music has it
4. [R232] 3/5 · US Experience from a longtime user on Apple-The Apple Watch version: **Pros:** - Intuitive features done better than competitors. - speed dial is great - Super Mix and their iterations are large, ever-evolving playlist tailored to your taste. - YouTube playlists and liked videos are in automatic updated playlists - grandfathered plans still accessible - Nearly every song on YouTube is available, i
5. [R27] 5/5 · US Better than Spotify: The quality of this platform is just amazing. Great recommendations, great taste, great ui, and great platform. Deserves way more hype for how good it is and you should def get it
6. [R31] 5/5 · US Great because I have premium.: It’s only good because my dad pays for premium, if I didn’t it’d be HELL. Like no background play unless you pay? That’s SUFFERING. Although the algorithm is really good, like I started playing “He’s My Man” by luvcat and “Sienna” by the Maria’s played next 🥹🥹. It cares about what YOU listen to, not what others do. The playlists are also great because I love the va
7. [R128] 5/5 · US Only music app I need!: I’ve been using YouTube Music for years, and it’s literally the only music app I have! I use it almost 24/7 because it’s so easy to use. I love how you can organize your music, create playlists, shuffle everything, and discover new songs without any hassle. It seems like every song I think of is on here, and I rarely have trouble finding the music I want. The recommendatio
8. [R114] 4/5 · US Sooo close to perfect: Love that YT music comes with YT premium so I don’t have to pay for two platforms! Super easy to transfer over music/playlists from other platforms but unfortunately you will lose a few in the process but atleast 98% transfer over correctly. Some of my only complaints is podcasts are super hard to follow in order, and are kind of formatted strange which is frustrating. Musi
9. [R108] 4/5 · US Speed dial: I wish it were easier to pin and unpin from my speed dial without triggering playback. Like, if there were a specific link where it says EDIT speed dial.
10. [R131] 4/5 · US Almost Perfect…: I love speed dial! So creative and very useful. I wish there was an option to clear my up next so my music would stop playing at the end of the current song. If you’re going to keep changing the bottom menu PLEASE let Premium subscribers customize it so we can expect consistency. Why do I have to reboot the entire app in order for songs added to a playlist to appear?
11. [R18] 1/5 · US Sucks: Your phone screen must be on or it won’t play… seriously? There are so many music apps with that basic feature so I will stick with Pandora and Spotify. This app is the worst I’ve seen basically due to that simple feature. YouTube is already a nightmare with its advertising. Uninstalled and I won’t be back.
12. [R47] 1/5 · US Don’t download unless you’re gonna pay for the subscription: App is unusable unless you pay for the subscription. You cannot turn off your screen or minimize the app. Ads are longer than songs, and run between each song. Some hours are as long as 10 minutes. Subscription is more than other apps.
13. [R68] 2/5 · US Free Tier is 👎 WACK: A commercial after every song? Are you kidding me? Sometimes 2 songs will go by before a commercial, also you can’t turn the screen off with all those commercials? GOOGLE is just getting greedy because they’re definitely making money if I’m having to sit through all those damn commercials… GREED is TERRIBLE
14. [R139] 4/5 · US It’s ok: I like how you can make playlists and listen to any music you like, it’s really easy to use, but the reason that I’m only giving it 4 stars is because I don’t like that it has a bunch of ads and I don’t like that you could only listen to music when your phone is on when your phone turns off then the music will stop playing, but it’s still a really good app that you can listen to music fro
15. [R10] 4/5 · US Bugs: In general.
16. [R19] 3/5 · US Laggy: very laggy but i alr have all my music here
17. [R42] 2/5 · US app crashes out a lot: A lot of the times when i barely start listening to music it’ll crash and I’ll have to go back and replay a playlist for it to crash again once in a blue moon mid listen like this app but js bru moment when it does that tho especially that it’s fully updated and even when I have good WiFi it continuously does it
18. [R121] 3/5 · US Crashes too often every few minutes. I pay for this app and it’s disappointing. Please fix this.: No one wants to be jamming out and the music keeps stopping. It’s very annoying!!!!!
19. [R14] 1/5 · US Disappointing Update: Recently the there was an update that removed the “Explore” button. This button gave you newly released music each week (seemingly based on your algo and preferred music tastes) Great feature. Loved it! NOW…. you have to dig for new releases and it’s almost all AI created trash, slop, whatever. Just put it back or at least stop pushing me garbage, fake, BS. creations. I’ve
20. [R36] 2/5 · US I used to love it but: The new user interface is horrible. I hate how much of the screen is taken up by the album cover when the app is open, and I really miss having the ‘related’ tab so easily accessible. Ever since the change, the app bugs out horribly to the point where I have to keep closing the tab and hoping my queue doesn’t clear. Theres too much going on for my phone to process. I’m hopin
21. [R50] 3/5 · US Ive been a paid Premium user for over 10 years, i dont like the most recent update.: This latest update has removed my most used feature, the "Related" tab that would automatically pull up a mix of the artist i was listening to as well as similar songs i had listened to and some new, related songs i hadnt. You have removed that in favor of JUST a queue option that i have to open, minimize the albu
22. [R189] 3/5 · US Favorite music streaming app, but new update is disappointing: I’ve loved this app for a long time and this is why I became a premium member. The new update rearranged the interface, the search feature, and replaced the “related” tab on any given song with playlist generation options like “familiar”, “discover”, “popular”, etc. I HATE this update!! This new feature isn’t helpful if I’m building a
23. [R6] 1/5 · US The recommendation sucks: Why keep recommending random uninteresting songs despite I explicitly skip them?
24. [R57] 1/5 · US Algorithm sucks: I find a style of music i would like to jam to for a work session. Select “create mix”. A SINGLE SONG LATER it’s playing death metal. Yes, I love death metal, but right now I want a chill mix. Can YouTube music do that? No.
25. [R58] 1/5 · US Suggest the worst music: No matter what music I listen to, they never suggest the same type of sound in music or type of genre in the songs. I listen to every day they don’t even put them on my front page like they try to hide them.
26. [R69] 1/5 · US recommendations are really bad: The recommendation algorithm is bad, i always feels trapped with bad music that doesn't have anything in common with the radio i started for example
27. [R8] 1/5 · US Keeps changing my music: The algorythim keeps changing the songs in my playlist!! So annoying!! Sometimes I add a specific alternate version of a song to my playlists and the app keeps changing it to the original version of that song instead.. Please stop this! I want the exact songs on my playlist that I chose, not whatever the algorythim thinks is better
28. [R43] 1/5 · US Playlist has a bug on Mobile: Every time I continually find random songs that I listen to, but never actually manually added, and even when I removed that song it never fully removes
29. [R61] 1/5 · US Trash App: Dunno how it got 4.8 out of 5. The playlist randomly adds new songs which almost doubles the length. And I gotta manually delete them one by one with malfunctional search in playlist but when I refresh the list, they might come back. Some songs can appear multiple times in the list and when you remote the duplicates and add it back, it appears the first time to be added. Is this music a
30. [R78] 3/5 · US I enjoy it: I used this for years and it works. My biggest issue is: If you hit shuffle, then skip a song, it sends you back to the top of the unshuffled playlist. No matter what you do you end up hearing the same 6 songs over and over again.
31. [R1] 4/5 · US It’s needs one more feature: It’s good but I think it’s should have a feature like this app Shazam from Apple maybe you could create one but instead google
32. [R15] 5/5 · US We need a crossfade pleaseeee: We need a crossfade pleaseeee
33. [R70] 1/5 · US Update system to be usable with 2026 civic carplay: I just got a 26 civic and spotify, amazon music work just fine on the dash. But every time i open youtube music on my display nothing loads, and the entire thing just crashes on my phone after about 30 seconds. I tested on a 26’ accord and it does the same thing so it’s definitely the app. thanks.
34. [R129] 3/5 · US Not working on Carplay: It has not been working on Apple CarPlay recently on my IPhone 16. They recently improved many of my other issues I had previously been having with the app. Now get this fixed.
35. [R141] 3/5 · US Subscription: Doesn’t even work offline when it’s downloaded with the subscription
36. [R151] 3/5 · US Downloaded songs don’t work: The smart download feature is cool in theory but the vast majority of the songs downloaded this way literally won’t play. I’ve reinstalled the app, restarted my phone, etc. I ended up on a long flight with like 300 songs that won’t play
37. [R32] 5/5 · US AWESOME: I love this app it so easy and cool to use, like how i can just shortcut my music RIGHT THERE everything about it is amazing buttt the only thing that i don’t like is that the music turns of while you leave the app or when your phone locks. that’s the only concern i have but everything else is GREAT
38. [R41] 5/5 · US Cannot play music when I am not on the app: I got off this app while playing music but the music stopped
39. [R2] 1/5 · US Gapless never work properly: Trash. Gapless playback never work properly on ios with a premium account
40. [R12] 2/5 · US Frequent malfunction.: The keyboard will appear and be stuck until I close the app it’s very frustrating. I need my YouTube music man 💔😩
41. [R21] 1/5 · US STOP MOVING THE SEARCH BUTTON: STOP MOVING THE SEARCH BUTTON
42. [R26] 1/5 · US Glitchy ui: Ui is just glitchy and stupid. Spotify is better
43. [R28] 2/5 · US Discography Needs Reworking: Discography sections on an artist’s page needs a huge rework. It would be a whole lot easier to create artist based playlist if an artists discography included: Albums, EPs, Mixtapes, Collaborations, & Compilations together in one tab, while having: Singles, & Features in another tab, allowing us to find & thumb through ALL of a specific artists music. Having the addit
44. [R9] 3/5 · US Ok: It’s OK but like, No lyrics, Ads, and you can’t upload your own playlist pictures. So yeah. (I use Apple Music)
45. [R11] 1/5 · US Ai music: Google needs to add a block ai music button. They need to add a disclaimer if the music is ai. They need to add a block artist button. Ban ai music.
46. [R7] 1/5 · US Long ads. I’m Switching back to Spotify: Ads are longer than the songs I want to hear. Ads shouldnt be longer than 1 minute, and should not be a whole history lesson or TurboTax lecture.
47. [R24] 5/5 · US arguably better than Spotify: no pay wall for stuff like repeating, more music than other platforms, sure it has some ads but theyre super rare and dont interrupt music
48. [R37] 3/5 · US In the middle huh.: You gave me an AD in the MIDDLE of a SONG, does that make ANY SENSE‽ if you’re gonna give me an ad at least make it at the end or beginning of a song. And if you’re gonna give an ad, don’t make it two un-skipable 15 second ads. That’s just ONE un-skipable 30 second ad.