Metrotube is an excellent YouTube app for Windows Phone that is smarter and more enjoyable to use than Microsoft's own YouTube client.
The design of Metrotube is very impressive. It carries off the slick Windows Phone look very well, presenting subscriptions, top rated/popular and categories in a way that mimics the smart design of the Marketplace app.
Ironically, Metrotube offers much more of an integrated experience than Microsoft's YouTube app. You can pin lots of useful stuff to your home screen, including subscriptions, watch later, favorites and playlists, so they appear as live tiles. You can also pin individual videos from YouTube, for instant access to them when you start your phone.
Metrotube syncs with the Music & Video hub on your Windows Phone, so that videos you play through the app appear here in your history.
The player window itself in Metrotube is very well designed too. It makes it very comfortable to browse comments and other YouTube meta data while watching a video. Rotate your phone to the side and the video will automatically zip to full screen - and vice versa. You can set video streaming quality in Metrotube to HD, HQ or low quality. However, the HD option is apparently disabled in the current release.
Metrotube is by far and away the best YouTube app for Windows Phone and delivers a fresh and enjoyable viewing experience that fits neatly within the design of the mobile OS. It should be the official app!
Download Metrotube 4.1.0.0
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