MyVideoHub

If you're reading this, there's a high chance you got stuck on a YouTube page somewhere along the way. It's one of the largest and popular online multimedia providers out there, with content accessible from various devices as long as there's an Internet connection. Apart from using a web browsers, alternative like MyVideoHub want to provide more comfort and features for a better experience.

One advantage is the visual design, which is based on the popular, practical and intuitive Office suite style with the ribbon menu, which seems to fit even a browser. Most of the space provides visual feedback of selected videos, with a side panel showing related items, descriptions, or comments, depending on the corresponding tab you choose.

The source is YouTube and there's no option to change this. However, this isn't an issue because the application focuses better on delivering service related features. As such, logging into your Google account grants you access to your YouTube playlists, gives better recommendations, as well as letting you upload videos or share them on Facebook.

If you're not really sure what to watch, there are several methods you can use to stay up to date with top rated videos and online trends, most popular clips out there, or simply selecting one of the various categories like film and animation, autos and vehicles, music, gaming, news and politics, documentary, education, entertainment and more.

Flexibility is a plus and the application provides all the necessary means to completely cut off your dependency with a web browser. Comments are viewed and written down in an easy manner, sharing is done at the press of a button, and you can even save clips to watch later or in existing playlists.

Sadly, a simple feature was overlooked in the development process which manages to put some amount of pressure on practicality. Automatic play is not implemented, not even for playlists, which moves the web browser dependency to this application, but in a heavier manner.

Bottom line is that MyVideoHub does come in handy, in spite of the lack of an auto play feature for playlist items. It only manages to do this because of its familiar design which makes accommodation a walk in the park, ass well as clever implementation of tools to access all of your YouTube account features, and even tons of recommendations and categories in case of a boredom crisis.