YouTube Music vs YouTube

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. [R8] YouTube Music 5/5 · US Deep music catalog, sounds great: For YouTube users YouTube Music is a great way to stream music. The song catalog is comprehensive and the audio sounds better than Apple Music (for my taste). I also like the many daily mixes that are algorithmically made to cover a variety of genres you like. Quickly switching between song and video is another strength of YTM. The queuing system is second to no
2. [R9] YouTube Music 3/5 · US No lossless audio option: This is the only music streaming service that doesn’t offer lossless audio which is extremely frustrating to audiophiles.
3. [R14] YouTube Music 4/5 · US Satisfactory: It’s satisfying for the most part. I love that I don’t need premium to pick a specific song to listen to; however, I’m not a big fan of the AI songs that I come across. The platform would be so much better if the AI songs would be taken away.
4. [R15] YouTube Music 3/5 · US Letra: La letra de la música siempre la ponen mal, cambian las palabras. No ponen la letra original. A veces ponen palabras que ni existen
5. [R1] YouTube Music 1/5 · US Buggy and weird: Cuts out frequently. Just stops the music for no reason, which is pathetic. Can’t even successfully do the on thing it claims to do - play music. Also, lots of weird UI issues because they don’t play music, rather, always trying to play the videos without showing you the video to make you think it’s a Spotify competitor. Hot garbage that should make Google ashamed (but they won
6. [R6] YouTube Music 3/5 · US Can you fix the song look up?: If you look up a song, and then choose the song, it leaves the keyboard on screen like half the time. This has been a glitch for years. It can’t be that hard to fix. Like when you choose a song make sure it just exits all text prompts, idk I’m not a coder but yeah it can’t be that hard.
7. [R7] YouTube Music 1/5 · US Navigation and keyboard issues: Please fix all the broken back navigation issues and the keyboard getting stuck on the screen
8. [R13] YouTube Music 1/5 · US Not good: One of the most frustratingly user unfriendly apps i have ever experienced
9. [R2] YouTube Music 4/5 · US It’s amazing: Love it, but when I turn my phone off the music turns off. Overall it’s amazing
10. [R10] YouTube Music 1/5 · US SONGS SOUND SPED UP: why do so many songs sound sped up (as if playing at 1.1x or something) i cant stand it
11. [R19] YouTube Music 1/5 · US Leaves a lot to ask for: App is carried heavily by its catalog of music, videos, and of course, YouTube access. However, the app itself could be heavily improved to not drain battery, start/stop music randomly, or simply improve the UI to be user friendly. The playlist and queue UI is clunky, slow, and frankly, inefficiently adds music to both processes making it a pain. The download feature i
12. [R3] YouTube Music 3/5 · US Ehh: I liked it but eventually I had to pay to listen to music with it off which is stupid because ofc I’m gonna listen to it when my phone is off
13. [R17] YouTube Music 5/5 · US Pretty good but..: This app is a lot more less confusing then Spotify or really any other platform for music but the thing is that we have to pay to have music playing in the background that’s all I have to say other then that this app is lovely.
14. [R27] YouTube Music 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.
15. [R30] YouTube Music 3/5 · US Good enough most of the time: Switched to YT Music from Apple Music a while back since I was already paying for YT premium anyways. There was a noticeable drop in audio quality, but I decided that was a trade off for saving a few bucks a month. Two big complaints: The queue system is still dumb. When I select “play next” to add a song to the queue, that should start its own little separate queue.
16. [R26] YouTube Music 5/5 · US Doble cobro: Hola buenas noches quisiera saber porque me estan cobrando dos veces el 07/09/2026 y el 07/10/2026 quiero saber porque espero respondan pronto gracias o
17. [R37] YouTube Music 1/5 · US stupid ah: i cant een create anotha acc , stop flagging me 🫩
18. [R64] YouTube 1/5 · US My youtube account is not working: Its saying my channel does not exist and playlists are not working, i have had that channel for over a year and worked hard on it, anyone know how to fix this?
19. [R36] YouTube Music 3/5 · US Look this….: It's not very friendly to people who want to listen to music for free. Although I felt good about the one-month free Music Premium, on the first day after the month was over, I felt it wasn't so good for me anymore because I couldn't play music in the background.but it still good if u have premium
20. [R51] YouTube Music 3/5 · US Please read: I’d give it more but you have to buy premium just to have music in the background. It’s a great app and all but I believe that background music should be free. Now you have to leave the app open to listen.
21. [R70] YouTube 1/5 · US Too many ads: There are at least 3 ads every video this is absurd you greedy monsters.
22. [R75] YouTube 3/5 · US ads: there are too many ads and premium is too expensive
23. [R76] YouTube 2/5 · US Ads ruined YouTube.: Way to many ads to watch consistently, it used to be so that you could skip after like 5 seconds on most of them, but now they often force you to watch multiple ads whilst also spamming more and more of them as time goes on. Only postitive is that it's YouTube so it's where 70% of the worlds content goes so you pretty much have to use it lol. Awesome
24. [R82] YouTube 1/5 · US youtube ads: This app has gotten much worse because of the constant ads. As a student, I spend many hours using it for studying, and the endless advertisements are extremely annoying and disruptive. They make it difficult to focus, and the overall experience has become very poor.
25. [R46] YouTube Music 1/5 · US Crash: I have had you tube premium for a couple of years now. I pay dang near $40.00 every month. Now it is getting very annoying. I have had to delete this app 3 different timess off my phone and reinstall just so that I can get it to work. If it does it again I will be cancelling my subscription and just find something else to watch. For the simple reason if you are going to charge someone 40 bu
26. [R107] YouTube 5/5 · US Bugging: Is it my phone or is anyone else having to uninstall and install this again for it to work?
27. [R108] YouTube 3/5 · GB Keeps crashing: App won’t open so I have to reinstall, then it works again for a short while but then refuses to open, on iOS
28. [R115] YouTube 1/5 · US Endless crashing: Just got an iPhone 17 and this app just repeatedly crashes. Literally not usable.