YouTube alternatives: 10 similar apps
YouTube by Google LLC, Photo & Video, has 48,906,524 ratings at 4.7 on the 🇺🇸 United States App Store. The 10 apps below are the ones Apple keeps returning on the first page for the 8 phrases YouTube's own listing is built from, YouTube Music most of all. Not a similarity model: the live search results, read today.
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YouTube Music
1,515,122 ratings in US · shares 1 of 8 search pages with YouTube
Ranks #2 for "youtube", where YouTube sits at #1.
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3
YouTube Studio
25,819 ratings in US · shares 1 of 8 search pages with YouTube
Ranks #3 for "youtube", where YouTube sits at #1.
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TikTok - Videos, Shop & LIVE
18,357,436 ratings in US · shares 1 of 8 search pages with YouTube
Ranks #4 for "youtube", where YouTube sits at #1.
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YouTube Kids
2,697,081 ratings in US · shares 1 of 8 search pages with YouTube
Ranks #5 for "youtube", where YouTube sits at #1.
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Spotify: Music and Podcasts
42,003,212 ratings in US · shares 2 of 8 search pages with YouTube
Ranks #10 for "youtube", where YouTube sits at #1. Also on the page for "watching" (#18).
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YouTube TV
59,546 ratings in US · shares 1 of 8 search pages with YouTube
Ranks #9 for "youtube", where YouTube sits at #1.
How this list is made
We split YouTube's name and description into the 8 phrases people would type (youtube, official, iphones, ipads, see, world, watching, hottest), search each on the United States App Store today, and count which apps keep appearing in the first 25 results. An app that sits on many of the same pages, high up, is a real alternative in the only sense that matters on the store: people looking for one find the other. No embeddings, no paid placements, no affiliate links.
Go further
- YouTube on aso.best: chart positions, ratings by country, the keywords it ranks for.
- Competitor finder: the same list for any app, any storefront.
- Read YouTube's hidden keyword field: every phrase it ranks for with Apple's popularity beside it, three free a month.