ReVanced
Hacker ApprovedRanked 2 of 9 YouTube clients by recommenders
People recommend ReVanced as a patched YouTube app for Android that removes ads, hides Shorts and adds SponsorBlock. Critics note it breaks after YouTube updates and needs repatching.
People recommend ReVanced as a patched YouTube app for Android that removes ads, hides Shorts and adds SponsorBlock. Critics note it breaks after YouTube updates and needs repatching.
53 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 43
- criticize it
- 10
- approval share
- 81%
Recommended in 10 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 43 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 4.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 10 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Hides or disables Shorts
“Being able to remove Shorts from the app and to revert Alphabet's many incoherent design decisions makes the whole thing usable.”
Comment from 8 Dec 2025 in “How I block all online ads” “Luckily I use uBlock Origin and ReVanced, and I blocked all Shorts from even appearing.”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “I Hacked into the Worst E-Bike and Fixed It [video]” “I personally solved this by using revanced and disabling shorts completely.”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts” - Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts”
- Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use”
- Comment from 9 Dec 2025 in “How I block all online ads”
- Comment from 28 Mar 2026 in “Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial”
Removes YouTube ads
“I use Ublock origin or revanced to remove the ads too because there's way too many now.”
Comment from 6 Jan 2026 in “Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds” “which gives you youtube without any ads and a lot of other customizations”
Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media” “I've not seen an ad from Youtube for probably 10+ years on my devices”
Comment from 5 Aug 2026 in “Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery” - Comment from 15 Aug 2026 in “Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin”
- Comment from 19 Dec 2025 in “2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results”
- Comment from 24 Sep 2026 in “Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test”
Better experience than official app
“it allows me to hide shorts. A 'pirated' version of the app offers a much better experience than even the paid option of it.”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts” “Couldn't imagine using YouTube on my phone without it, it's night and day difference”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney” “Revanced is the best UX for Android, can remove a lot of things as well”
Comment from 26 Nov 2025 in “Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled” - Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users”
Built-in SponsorBlock support
“Revanced Youtube's app support sponsorblock as well.”
Comment from 6 Jan 2026 in “Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds” “it integrates Sponsorblock into the app”
Comment from 6 Aug 2026 in “Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Breaks after YouTube updates
“you gotta repatch every 4~6 months, its always breaking due to yt changes”
Comment from 26 Sep 2026 in “PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock” “updates stopped and my older revanced stopped working correctly”
Comment from 26 Sep 2026 in “PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock” “they were always getting broken by youtube”
Comment from 26 Nov 2025 in “Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled” Developer drama and legal risk
“Revanced has some issues with developer drama where the lead banned other devs”
Comment from 27 Sep 2026 in “PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock” “revanced is legally dicey”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed” Hard to install or build
“the weird revanced route worked for me exactly once out of the several attempts on two phones”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed” “spending endless hours trying to build an working apk”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed”
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40 of the 69 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“My Instagram app (besides showing no ads) shows just the stories and feeds of people I follow, chronologically.”
“Revanced has some issues with developer drama where the lead banned other devs”
“you gotta repatch every 4~6 months, its always breaking due to yt changes”
“Download the latest revanced manager and it works fine.”
“updates stopped and my older revanced stopped working correctly”
“Revanced Apps. Because ads are cancer.”
“you can still patch the YouTube apk with Revanced and get rid of ads”
“I actually used to install Revanced for all the relatives who ever complained about Youtube”
“it integrates Sponsorblock into the app”
“I've not seen an ad from Youtube for probably 10+ years on my devices”
“Luckily I use uBlock Origin and ReVanced, and I blocked all Shorts from even appearing.”
“Couldn't imagine using YouTube on my phone without it, it's night and day difference”
“I have personally been using Revanced on phones and Ublock origin on my computer devices, highly recommend them”
“advanced is a blessing to de-shorts your YouTube”
“the perfect solution for all of the youtube shortcomings”
“spending endless hours trying to build an working apk”
“revanced builds in my experience last for at least a year before a new build is required”
“the weird revanced route worked for me exactly once out of the several attempts on two phones”
“I personally solved this by using revanced and disabling shorts completely.”
“revanced is legally dicey”
“not being able to disable shorts made me use ReVanced”
“it allows me to hide shorts. A 'pirated' version of the app offers a much better experience than even the paid option of it.”
“Or you can install an app like Revanced; you might have to manually load the APK, but it's doable.”
“which gives you youtube without any ads and a lot of other customizations”
“I use Ublock origin or revanced to remove the ads too because there's way too many now.”
“Revanced Youtube's app support sponsorblock as well.”
“Using NewPipe (like revanced opensource) for ad free YouTube”
“I have been successful in hiding Shorts from view”
“Revanced has too many options and the settings and large and confusing.”
“Being able to remove Shorts from the app and to revert Alphabet's many incoherent design decisions makes the whole thing usable.”
“You're using a fake version that probably also has malware.”
“I can highly recommend using YouTube through Firefox with extensions or ReVanced that try to fix these hostile and anti user decisions.”
“they were always getting broken by youtube”
“Revanced is the best UX for Android, can remove a lot of things as well”
“which lets me disable all shorts content appearing”
“they want to forbid apps like ReVanced that could reduce their advertising revenue”
“apps like ReVanced that could reduce their advertising revenue”
“now I know about revanced so they aren't getting any more”
“for YouTube I side-loaded Revanced Extended from the open F-Droid store”
“I think it's possible to remove ads with reddit revanced”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.