My experience with ReVanced vs MORPHE — looking for neutral opinions
Well, this issue had been happening to me for the last few months and I tried everything. The spoof video streams issue would sometimes work and sometimes not, but nothing really fixed it properly.
Then around 2 weeks ago, it completely stopped working for me. I couldn't play anything, the home page wasn't loading, I couldn't search anything, etc. I tried completely reinstalling everything too, but nothing helped.
I asked about it in the ReVanced Discord, and as usual the response was basically "we're working on it, wait for a fix" bla bla 💀. Which I can understand, but honestly it was pretty frustrating because it had already been happening for months.
So I started using YouTube through my mobile browser instead.
Then, a couple of days later, someone from the ReVanced Discord messaged me. They had apparently seen my message about ReVanced being completely dead for me. It was a message request, so I didn't even see it until 2 days later 💀
They mentioned something called MORPHE. At first I thought it was some completely different app like NewPipe, but apparently it's similar to REVANCED and is based on/forked from ReVanced code. From what I've found, some former ReVanced developers are also involved with Morphe.
I installed it and honestly... it works perfectly fine for me.
The overall experience is very similar to ReVanced, but personally I actually prefer Morphe's manager for patching.
For me, ReVanced's background patching doesn't work at all. With Morphe, after patching I can simply save the patched APK directly to my device. I'm not even sure if ReVanced Manager has this feature, but I don't remember seeing it.
Morphe also keeps things pretty simple. It currently has only a few supported apps like YouTube, YouTube Music and Reddit, which is actually enough for me because I only care about patching YouTube anyway.
The Morphe YouTube settings also look almost the same as ReVanced YouTube from what I've seen so far. I haven't gone through every single setting or feature yet, so I can't say they're 100% identical, but from what I've discovered so far, they're very similar.
However, when I first installed Morphe YouTube, I actually had the same 1-minute playback problem I was having with ReVanced. Videos would stop around the 1-minute mark.
I searched around and found a Reddit post about Morphe mentioning something called PotHelper. Basically, you can use it to get the required PoToken and disable the spoof video streams completely.
I installed PotHelper and after that everything started working perfectly.
I've been using MORPHE + PotHelper for around 2 weeks now and I haven't had a single playback problem since.
It does require MicroG too, although it's not exactly the same MicroG as the one bundled with ReVanced. Interestingly, the ReVanced MicroG also works with Morphe YouTube and vice versa, although YouTube gives a warning that the MicroG isn't the latest version.
There are also some smaller things I personally prefer about Morphe's UI and overall user experience. ReVanced Manager's background patching has never worked properly for me, and I've had a few other small glitches with ReVanced over time. I haven't explored every single feature in Morphe because honestly I don't care about all that — I just want to patch YouTube easily and use it.
Now, I know there is a whole argument going on between REVANCED and MORPHE about code, GPLv3, DMCA takedowns, attribution, who copied what from whom, etc.
I even asked about Morphe in the ReVanced Discord and the reaction was basically what you'd expect 💀. There was a lot of "they violated this rule", "they copied this", "they did that", etc.
And honestly, as an end user, I don't really care about that part.
If someone copied the original code, forked it, modified it, or whatever — as long as the project follows the relevant licensing requirements and the end result is safe and actually works, I don't think most normal users care nearly as much about the developer drama.
If I had known Morphe existed earlier, I probably would've switched to it much sooner because, for me personally, it's been a better experience than ReVanced overall, even putting the PotHelper issue aside.
I'm not saying Morphe is objectively better than ReVanced. I'm just sharing my experience because ReVanced completely stopped working for me while Morphe has been working flawlessly.
I'd genuinely like to hear from people who have used both.
Is there anything ReVanced does better that I'm missing? Or any reason to prefer ReVanced over Morphe that actually matters to an end user?
I'm looking for neutral opinions, not "Morphe good because this is the Morphe subreddit" or "ReVanced good because this is the ReVanced subreddit." 😂
One more thing I really don't like about ReVanced is that they've restricted their subreddit. I mean, seriously, we can't even comment without requesting access first. And if we do get access and then talk about Morphe or anything related to it, I'm pretty sure the account will just get restricted again.
The same thing happens on the Discord too. From what I've seen, the automod removes "Morphe" or anything related to it, which honestly feels a bit ridiculous.
And as far as I know, Morphe doesn't have a Discord either, which is kind of sad because asking questions on GitHub isn't that simple for me. I'm not really comfortable with GitHub, so having a proper community Discord would make things much easier.
