YouTube, tidy & smart? Supercharge YouTube! Give it strong features, filter only the videos you want & exactly the look you like
Users
400K
0 in 30 days
Rating
4.4 / 5
โ0.14 in 30 days
Ratings
7,153
+5 in 30 days
Store rank
#744
#679 among extensions
Version
4.2081
updated 6 Jul 2026
Users
monthly, 3 years
Latest, 15 Oct 2026:400,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 3 years
Latest, 15 Oct 2026:7,153 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 'Improve YouTube!' ๐ง (for YouTube & Videos)
Set your YouTube Video Player; YouTube Content Categories & Filter-rules; Tweaks; Layout, Theme & Style
all at once today & enjoy that for years to come! With our enhancer you have 175+ useful / unique features๐งฐ๐ง. To make your video experience & content discovery a whole lot better & save you a lot of clicks & time.
โ๏ธ Open-source
โ๏ธ Applies most settings with no reloadโ (unlike other YouTube-Extensions; draggable icon on YT)
๐ lightweight: You can expect everything to work as expected.
โ Non-profit & no income since 2012. (Bear with us when YouTube changes. it's been an uphill race and only gets better.)
โ Video playback features for embedded videos (+ preparing mobile m.youtube, Facebook, Netflix, Twitch, Vimeo too)
(Offline / privacy๐: We can't care about what video you watch, just that you have a better time).
๐ Press Reviews: We are Recommended by FireFox!๐ฆ(๐Only 98 extensions)
"Enhances YouTube in meaningful ways" - (5/5โญ gHacks.net/2021/03/26/improved-youtube-enhances-youtube-in-meaningful-ways)
"Might be the best YouTube Extension Ever" - (https://LifeHacker.com/this-might-be-the-only-youtube-browser-extension-youll-1846575110)
โฎโ๏ธ175+ featuresโฎ (many can only be found here /we pioneered)
๐ก Expand always: Video Description, Transcript, Chapters
๐ฉ๏ธ "Virtual Travel" (Switch your content-country)
โจ Dim pages until hovered ("Zen mode" )
๐ค Auto-Pause Tabs โ Auto-fullscreen โ Pip Picture
๐ Analyse your activity ๐ซ Block Videos, Channels, Tags, Category
โ Video tabs volume Mixer๐๏ธ๐
๐๏ธ Remove Related Videos ๐๏ธ Remove Shorts Reel
๐๏ธ Hide distraction declutter attention (teaching / screenshare / presentation)
โ "Up Next": Off (Reset YT's "Autoplay" after every video )
โป๏ธ Undo the new Sidebar (Description, details, comments)
๐ซ adblocker (adblock & adskip or white-list ads your channel subscriptions)
โ Channel: don't play trailer
๐จโ Themes
๐๐๐ Disable Ambient lightning (cinematics)
๐ Dark mode Schedule (also Black theme for oLed) โ Display dim โ Blue-light filter (Preserve sleepiness. Relax eyes)
๐บ Video Player & Playback Features:
๐ท Screenshot (save copy download any video Frame)
โฏ๏ธ๐๐ Extra Player Buttons (optional): โฐLoop / Repeat (looper / repeater) โ Rotate Video
๐ก Subtitles, captions & transcript Options
๐ watch videos frame by frame.
๐ reverse Playlist, Shuffle Playlist
๐๏ธ Expand videos to your full window (expander)
๐๏ธ theater mode ๐๏ธ cinema mode (turn off the lights)
๐๏ธ Resize videos (player Size)
โ Default/fixed Video Quality to match your Display 720p 1080p 4k 8k or bandwidth 480p 240p 144p, auto hd, automatic 4K โ avoid 60 frames vs. 30 fps โ HDR vs. SDR
โ Player Auto-Play: Off
๐จ "Speed-watching" (Fixed Default Playback Speed) (smart video speed controller excluding music or education)
๐ Fixed Volume or Loudness normalization
โ Popup Player โ Custom Mini-Player
โ Pop-out Player ( "always-on-top (floating popout) needs OS setting / app)
โ Deny AV1 codec to speed up Player /save CPU electricityโก๐. [Old] GPUs can do [H.264] VP8 VP9 encoding (fast) (H264 h264ify Flash)
๐งฉโ+โง Youtube Shortcuts: Set any Shortcuts / Hotkeys (mouse scroll for volume, etc. ) ๐๏ธ Overwrite YT's Shortcuts
๐งน๐งฝ๐งผ
๐๏ธ Hide YT Comments / fold / collapse ๐๏ธ Transparent Header ๐๏ธ Hide Annotations
๐๏ธ Hide live stream chat ๐๏ธHide video's details
โToggle YT Player Controls โ set YT language โTweak YT's "Scroll for details"
โ Mimic retro classic Theme Style Layout
โ Mini Player scrolling โ Search inside โ Legacy List style
โ Channel Video counter
โ Thumbnails .gif animation: OFF, Thumbnails: HD
โ https://github.com/code-charity/youtub (Twitter @ImprovedTube)
(๐ฑ๐ช Community / 140+ Volunteers)
๐ translated to 40+ languages
We'd like to team with Developers for Web-Video & YT Extensions and listed some unique, friendly, cool, smart work on:
https://github.com/code-charity/youtub/discussions/1881 & https://improvedtube.com )
๐Found a bugโ๐๐
- If you notice any issue, need help or wish for a new feature๐๐ง, please post on Github: https://github.com/code-charity/youtub/issues
We work hard ๐๏ธ๐ฉโ๐ป to make your experience a 5/5 Stars experience.
(We might even read mail & "Support", next to "Reviews". Please don't complain in the Reviews immediately!)
( bugs@improvedtube.com ๐ง ideas@improvedtube.com ๐ง )
Compatiblity: While you might not lack features for YT with our extension (and some others copy our code),
You can usually just run all else you need, i.e. sponsorblock, pockettube or extra adblocker / adskipper.
(โ YT Extensions work with one permission to access YT, you dont need to accept 'alerts', 'change privacy settings', 'browser history')
โ Not affiliated with YT.
Independently developed.
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