Youtopia — Study on YouTube with Friends

Watch YouTube together with friends — or shut YouTube up completely. Youtopia gives YouTube a mode. Start a watch party and study together on the same video over live voice and chat. Switch to Focus and strip the site down to just the video. Or leave YouTube exactly as it is. One toolbar click moves between them. Built for students, study groups, long-distance friends and anyone who opens YouTube to learn something and loses two hours to the sidebar. 🎉 STUDY PARTY — WATCH YOUTUBE TOGETHER, IN SYNC Start a party, share the link, and up to three of you watch the same video at the same time. • Live voice chat — talk while you watch. No dial-in, no meeting link, no second app on a second screen • Follow the host — turn it on and your video jumps whenever theirs does, or tap the catch-up chip to land on their exact timestamp when you drift • Live text chat — a floating widget you can drag anywhere over the player • Emoji reactions that pop on the video for everyone in the room • Auto volume ducking — the video lowers itself while someone is talking, so you never miss what a friend just said • No accounts and no sign-up. Nicknames and avatars are handed to you the moment you join Great for co-working and body doubling, group revision before an exam, walking a friend through a tutorial, remote study rooms, lecture recordings, and watching anything together when you are not in the same room. 🎯 FOCUS MODE — YOUTUBE WITHOUT THE DISTRACTIONS The video and nothing else. Focus hides the home feed, the related-video sidebar and the comments, and replaces the feed with a greeting and a quote — so opening YouTube to study does not end in a tab crawl. Use it as a YouTube distraction blocker, a study timer companion, or a permanent setting if the recommendations have stopped being recommendations. 🧭 EXPLORE MODE — YOUTUBE EXACTLY AS YOU KNOW IT Explore is the off switch. Nothing is hidden, nothing is rearranged. Youtopia stays out of the way until you want it back. ⏭️ FEWER AD INTERRUPTIONS, IN EVERY MODE Ad breaks get skipped in every mode. Focus also hides ad slots, promoted rows and overlays so the page stays clean. In Explore, you decide. 🔒 PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Party voice is peer-to-peer WebRTC. It never passes through a server, so it stays encrypted between you and your friends • Nothing is recorded — no audio, no video, no transcript kept afterwards. A room holds its last 60 chat lines so late arrivals can catch up, and they are erased with the room • Avatars are drawn on your device from a short seed. No images are uploaded or fetched • Rooms are temporary — a room deletes itself two minutes after the last person leaves, and six hours after it opened at the very latest • No account, no email, no tracking, and nothing sold to anyone ▶️ HOW TO USE IT 1. Click the Youtopia icon to open the side panel 2. Pick Study Party, Focus or Explore 3. For a party, hit "Start a study party" and send the link or party code to your friends That is the whole setup. No registration, no configuration, no paywall. ✅ REQUIREMENTS Works on YouTube in Chrome and Edge. Microphone access is requested only when you join a party with voice — every other feature works without it. Voice runs 30 minutes per party; chat, reactions and syncing have no limit. Be nice and kind with all participants.