Baking Soda - Tube Cleaner

Name: Baking Soda - Tube Cleaner
Price: 1.99 USD
Rating: 4.6 (96 reviews)
Author: And a Dinosaur

Better video player

$1.99

96 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Utilities
Developer

And a Dinosaur
Language

EN
English
Size

3
MB

Also Included In

Fizzy Water Bundle

Utilities

VINEGAR USERS: You can get a 50% discount by completing the Fizzy Water Bundle! Baking Soda is a Safari extension that replaces custom video players (except the YouTube player) with a minimal HTML video tag. Baking Soda is more basic than Vinegar. Unlike Vinegar, Baking Soda doesn't block ads or let you switch the video quality. If Baking Soda doesn't work on certain websites, you can easily disable it in the settings. Note: The "can read and alter webpages" text in the permission section is just unfortunate wording. Baking Soda needs access to the web page to find video players and replace them. It's not doing anything creepy!

Ratings & Reviews

4.6

out of 5

96 Ratings

Missing Features, Otherwise instant buy
09/29/2023

mxbxe
Great app. Only thing I dislike is some keyboard shortcut down work. I use ">" and "<" relgiously to control playback speed. Also entering full screen changes the players UI, I personally perfer the non-fullscreen UI with the scrubber at the bottom so pausing videos doesnt have UI element pop up that blocks the view.These features are pretty useful for watching lectures, which is a huge strenght of this app. All my lectures use wild in house video players with different UI, controls, etc. across the various platoforms (Mediasite, Zoom, etc.). I highly recommend this if you often have to deal with these technology deficiencies like I do as a med student
Missing Features, Otherwise instant buy
09/29/2023

mxbxe

Great app. Only thing I dislike is some keyboard shortcut down work. I use ">" and "<" relgiously to control playback speed. Also entering full screen changes the players UI, I personally perfer the non-fullscreen UI with the scrubber at the bottom so pausing videos doesnt have UI element pop up that blocks the view.These features are pretty useful for watching lectures, which is a huge strenght of this app. All my lectures use wild in house video players with different UI, controls, etc. across the various platoforms (Mediasite, Zoom, etc.). I highly recommend this if you often have to deal with these technology deficiencies like I do as a med student
Must have
09/04/2022

JakeTamu17
Really great app and worth the cost, makes using safari on iOS much less frustrating. It would be nice if the developer had an excluded list option for certain urls so they could function normally. For example, the New York Times home page is often overlayed with videos and gifs and this extension forces some of them to play through the iOS video player (I definitely preferred the default for that site). Not a deal breaker, just a suggested improvement. Edit - the developer response is correct and the app option that is described fixed my issue. 5 star extension for safari.

Developer Response
You can disable Baking Soda on certain websites. Tap the puzzle piece icon in Safari's address bar, then tap Baking Soda. There's an "Enable Baking Soda on" option.
Must have
09/04/2022

JakeTamu17

Really great app and worth the cost, makes using safari on iOS much less frustrating. It would be nice if the developer had an excluded list option for certain urls so they could function normally. For example, the New York Times home page is often overlayed with videos and gifs and this extension forces some of them to play through the iOS video player (I definitely preferred the default for that site). Not a deal breaker, just a suggested improvement. Edit - the developer response is correct and the app option that is described fixed my issue. 5 star extension for safari.
Developer Response 08/27/2022
You can disable Baking Soda on certain websites. Tap the puzzle piece icon in Safari's address bar, then tap Baking Soda. There's an "Enable Baking Soda on" option.
Great app!
11/21/2023

Adrian232
Great app and simple design. I love how I can disable it on a per-website basis.It would be even better if certain controls like closed captioning and quality were made available on the clean version, and a way to copy the link for the video so I can open it in a new tab (I hate that I can easily do this on my Mac via a right-click, but not my iPad).But how it is currently is well worth the money!
Great app!
11/21/2023

Adrian232

Great app and simple design. I love how I can disable it on a per-website basis.It would be even better if certain controls like closed captioning and quality were made available on the clean version, and a way to copy the link for the video so I can open it in a new tab (I hate that I can easily do this on my Mac via a right-click, but not my iPad).But how it is currently is well worth the money!
Pretty Useful!
12/27/2021

Swerdy
It will oftentimes hide some original controls (e.g. video quality) and just stick to the defaults which is annoying although I can't imagine a good workaround and it's easy to disable for specific sites. Other than that it works great!
Pretty Useful!
12/27/2021

Swerdy

It will oftentimes hide some original controls (e.g. video quality) and just stick to the defaults which is annoying although I can't imagine a good workaround and it's easy to disable for specific sites. Other than that it works great!