How do you keep track of all the various YouTube tweaks out there?
I was just thinking it was a bit amusing how many different YouTube tweaks are out there, which are either forks or evolutions of existing work.
First I ever heard of was Cercube, though I never used it.
Then there was CercubePlus by UprisingPlus which was Cercube with more features.
But, wait, this isn't even its final form – then came CercubePlusExtra by Balackburn which was CercubePlus but with even more features!
Whose GitHub says that it was forked from arichornlover/YouTubeRebornPlus
Which is based on arichorn's YouTube-Reborn-v5
Which itself is a fork of LillieH1000’s YouTube Reborn!
Then Cercube was abandoned (I think? Or active development stopped for another reason which I can't remember) which led me to find...
Which was followed by uYouPlus by qnblackcat which is uYou but with more features.
But wait, there's more! I vaguely remember the time when Google killed off Vanced which affected similar projects around this time and work on some of these tweaks stopped, until the project came back...as uYouPlusExtra! (Pro Max. Gold. Premium. ++.)
Which was then renamed to uYouEnhanced
At the bottom of the readme on uYouEnhanced, it is mentioned: "Lightweight Alternative YTLitePlus - switch from uYouEnhanced to YTLitePlus. YTLitePLus is stable and more customizable than uYouPlus/uYouEnhanced."
Okay, we're on "Plus" already, which means a YTLite must've existed before that? Lol of course it does, enter YTLite by Balackburn
Which itself is a fork of YTLite by dayanch96!
You thought we were done? Haha of course not, YTLite is now being renamed to YouTube Plus.
I am an enthusiast who will try everything. I like tinkering and have higher than average patience with this stuff. But I could totally see how someone new to sideloading could go a little crazy trying to keep track of it all and decide what version to use, and understand which one gives them the features they are looking for.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to sound ungrateful. I love that the community's so active. But the names are so confusing sometimes it's hard to tell by the name alone which one has the subset or superset of features and what to expect, haha.
(And yes I know many of them are outdated now. But I just thought it was funny there’s so much even now to choose from. I’m sure I’m missing some. For the record I'm currently using uYouEnhanced and trying YouTube Plus as an alternate.)
EDIT 5 Dec 2024: if you're looking for a recommendation of which tweak to try, I would currently say u/dayanch96's YouTube Plus is the best overall. You can get the IPA directly from his repo/add to your sideloading app The only drawback is as of this writing native YouTube downloading is broken; I'll update this post when there's a fix. Everything else works well.