Control YouTube Music from a toolbar popup: playback, queue, albums, recommendations, history, search, playlists and synced lyrics.
Users
488
+232 in 30 days
Rating
4.5 / 5
−0.50 in 30 days
Ratings
8
+2 in 30 days
Store rank
#44K
#37K among extensions
Version
1.5.1
updated 13 Oct 2026
Users
monthly, 3 months
Latest, 15 Oct 2026:488 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 3 months
Latest, 15 Oct 2026:8 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.
About Companion for YouTube Music - Mini Player
Companion for YouTube Music puts a full mini player in your toolbar, so you
can control music.youtube.com without ever switching tabs.
- Player: album art, per-artist links, play/pause, previous/next,
like/dislike, shuffle, repeat, seek and volume
- Home: YouTube Music's own recommendation shelves inside the popup - pick a
song and it starts a radio from it
- Queue: see what's coming with artwork, jump to any track, play next, add to
queue, remove, drag to reorder; autoplay suggestions are labeled and
toggleable
- History: your real YouTube Music listening history, click to replay
- Search: songs and videos - play them, queue them or start a radio from them
- Playlists: browse your library, play any playlist, or add the current song
to one
- Lyrics: time-synced lyrics from LRCLIB with a live highlight; strictly
opt-in and limited to official songs
- Start a radio from any track row, anywhere in the popup
- Row actions you can switch off in settings, so rows carry only what you use
- Sleep timer with presets and custom minutes
- Keyboard shortcuts you can rebind right in the popup
- Dark, light or system theme with eight accent colors - or the dynamic
accent that follows the album art - plus an optional accent-colored
toolbar icon
- Compact mode: collapse the popup to just the player card
Privacy: no analytics, no tracking, no data collection. Everything runs
against your open YouTube Music tab with your existing session. The only
external request is the opt-in lyrics lookup, which sends the current
track's title and artist to lrclib.net - nothing else, nowhere else.
Open source under GPL-3.0:
https://github.com/benesmartin/youtube-music-companion
Bug reports and ideas welcome on GitHub :)
If it makes your listening nicer:
https://ko-fi.com/benesmartin
This is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Google or YouTube.
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Users
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Ratings
Rating
7 days
+41
+9.2%
+1
−0.50
30 days
+232
+90.6%
+2
−0.50
Chrome Web Store search rankings
Where Companion for YouTube Music - Mini Player appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change