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Control Panel for YouTube

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Control Panel for YouTube is an iOS app from J BUCHANAN & L.J BUCHANAN in the Productivity category, currently rated 3.8★ across 5 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews — supporters praise core features while critics cite stability/value gaps.

Our BU Score puts it at 51Solid (established niche player). For a Productivity app, that means established niche player.

Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.

📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo

MODEL
Revenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
Paid app ($3.99)METRIC
+$2,800
subscriptionREVIEW
+$2,500
premiumREVIEW
+$2,200
worth every pennyREVIEW
+$2,000
highly recommendREVIEW
+$1,400
Single-language (English only)METRIC
−$400
Pre-traction phase (5 ratings)METRIC
−$300
Growing app (2y old)METRIC
+$200
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE
Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
Aug 24
Oct 24
Jun 25
Sep 25
Feb 26

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE
Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY
Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
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💾 1 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.33.2🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2024 (2y old)

📝 About this app

Ads:

• Block ads
• Hide Sponsored videos & promos
• Hide Merch, Offers etc. (desktop version)

YouTube experiments:

• Restore Subscriptions link in sidebar (desktop version)
• Restore order of sidebar items (desktop version)
• Restore small thumbnails in Related (desktop version)
• Restore "Upload date" search filter (desktop version)

New video player UI:

• Disable new progress bar and controls (desktop version) - Note: this will stop working when YouTube removes the old player UI
• Hide new full screen controls
• Hide "More videos" in full screen
• Always use compact Play button (desktop version)
• Remove background from controls (desktop version)
• Restore Miniplayer button (desktop version)
• Restore corner click to toggle full screen (desktop version)
• Hide full screen title (desktop version)
• Hide full screen like/dislike buttons (desktop version)

Annoyances:

• Hide AI summaries
• Remove pink gradient from progress bars
• Hide information panels
• Hide Premium upsells
• Disable video previews (desktop version)
• Disable themed hover effects (desktop version)
• Automatically pause channel trailers (desktop version)
• Allow background playback (mobile version)
• Hide Open App links (mobile version)

Video lists:

• Hide suggested sections
• Hide Live videos
• Hide Streamed videos
• Hide Mixes
• Hide Playlists
• Hide Movies and TV
• Hide Upcoming videos
• Hide Members only videos
• Hide Collaborations in Subscriptions
• Hide Auto-dubbed videos in Related
• Hide watched videos
• Hide hidden videos - Hides the "Undo" button after 5 seconds
• Hide channels - Adds "Hide channel" to video menus
• Disable Home feed
• Search thumbnail size (desktop version)
• Minimum grid items per row (desktop version)
• Hide Posts in Home (mobile version)

Video pages:

• Disable Autoplay
• Disable Ambient mode
• Hide Related videos
• Hide the Next button
• Hide channel watermark
• Hide Share/Thanks/Clip etc.
• Hide Ask button
• Hide video metadata
• Hide Comments
• Always use theater mode (desktop version)
• Full size theater mode (desktop version)
• Disable enlarged UI in theater mode (desktop version)
• Always use original audio (desktop version)
• Hide video end cards (desktop version)
• Hide video endscreen content (desktop version)
• Hide Premium Jump ahead button (desktop version)
• Hide Chat (desktop version)
• Add Take snapshot to video menu (JPEG / PNG) (desktop version)
• Make Transcript downloadable (desktop version)

Shorts:

• Hide Shorts
• Redirect Shorts to the normal player
• Hide suggested actions
• Hide link to related Short by the same channel
• Always show progress bar
• Stop Shorts looping
• Hide Remix button (desktop version)
• Hide Shorts metadata until hover (desktop version)
• Minimum Shorts per row (desktop version)

UI tweaks:

• Show full video titles
• Use square corners for thumbnails and videos
• Hide categories in Home
• Hide channel banner images
• Hide Search with your voice
• Enforce theme (desktop version)
• Link YouTube logo to Subscriptions (desktop version)
• Tidy Guide sidebar (desktop version)
• Hide "Latest" bar in Subscriptions (desktop version)
• Use grid view for Subscriptions & Search (portrait only) (mobile version)
• Hide Explore button in Home (mobile version)
• Hide channel list in Subscriptions (mobile version)

Embedded videos:

• Hide Share button
• Hide pause overlay

🆕 What's New · v1.33.2

• Fixed hiding watched videos in Home and Subscriptions on desktop
• Fixed text being themed on hover in video description snippets on desktop
• Fixed making topic page headers square
• German translation updated by @uDEV2019
• Removed CSS for reverting themed links in video description snippets on desktop, as YouTube no longer seems to theme these

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name
Control Panel for YouTube
Developer
J BUCHANAN & L.J BUCHANAN
Bundle ID
dev.jbscript.Control-Panel-for-YouTube
App Store URL
Open in App Store
Category
Productivity
Content rating
4+
Languages
EN

Company

Website
soitis.dev
Tagline
Browser Extensions by
Description
Quare software, so it is
Founded
Not found
HQ / Address
Not found
Employees
Not found
Logo
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Revenue

Verified revenue / mo
Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo
Not found
AI annual estimate
Not found
ML model estimate / mo
$46.6K/mo
Top-grossing rank
Outside top 100 in US Productivity
All-time revenue
Not found
Pricing
Not found

Founder

Name
Not found
X / Twitter
Not found
LinkedIn
Not found
GitHub
Not found
X followers
Not found
Public statements
Not found

Funding

Total raised
Not found
Last round
Not found
Investors
Not found
Crunchbase
Not found
AngelList
Not found

Press & Links

Articles found
Not found
Listed on
Not found
Blog
https://soitis.dev/comments-owl-for-hacker-news
Press / News
Not found

Contacts & Socials

Socials
Not found
Email
Not found
Phone
Not found
Contact page
Not found
About page
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📈Ratings growth5 ratings+400% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾Mar 2024Jun 2025May 2026
Tracked (7 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (27 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
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