# ReVanced Manager

6 Hacker News commenters recommended ReVanced Manager and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for patching the official Android YouTube app to add controls such as hiding Shorts and comments, and it works with other app patches too.

## Why people recommend it

- Patches the official YouTube Android app (2 comments): "allows you to patch the official Android YouTube apk to enable this feature" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835251)) "You can mod the APK and remove those detections using ReVanced Manager" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924262))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Morphe](https://hackerapproved.com/p/morphe.md): 21 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "ReVanced Manager", https://hackerapproved.com/p/revanced-manager/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).