Skips YouTube videos straight to the most-replayed or chapter-selected parts. No downloading or re-uploading.
Users
17
+9 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
1
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#163K
#136K among extensions
Version
1.0.1
updated 24 Aug 2026
Users
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 21 Oct 2026:17 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 21 Oct 2026:1 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 YouTube Highlight Player
**Stop scrubbing through YouTube videos looking for the good part. Let the video tell you where it is.**
YouTube Highlight Player reads the "most replayed" data YouTube already
collects for every popular video — the same curve you see under the seek
bar — and uses it to play back only the sections other viewers actually
watched the most. No AI guessing, no manual editing: just the video's own
audience data, put to work.
**How it works**
Turn on "Play Selection Only" and the video jumps straight to its
highest-engagement moments, skipping the rest automatically as you watch.
Turn it off anytime to go back to the full video — nothing is downloaded,
edited, or re-uploaded. It's your normal YouTube player, just smarter
about where it spends your time.
**No heatmap? No problem.**
Plenty of videos don't have "most replayed" data yet — new uploads,
smaller channels, lower view counts. For those, YouTube Highlight Player
falls back to the video's own chapters (creator-added or auto-generated),
so you can pick exactly which sections to watch. Videos with both get a
simple tab switcher to flip between the two.
**Built to stay out of your way**
- A compact, glassmorphic control panel appears right next to the player
— collapses to a small pill when you don't need it front and center.
- See exactly how much time you're saving, updated live.
- Works the moment you land on a video — no setup, no account, no
configuration required.
- A native toggle button lives right in YouTube's own player controls
too, if you'd rather not glance at the panel at all.
**Privacy, plainly**
This extension has no backend server of its own. It doesn't sell data,
and it never sends anything about what you watch — no video ID, title, or
history — to anyone. Full privacy policy: https://claude.ai/code/artifact/17cc964c-10b1-4c5e-b88e-8eda4a3e27d1
**Open source**
The full source code is public — don't just take the privacy claims
above on faith, go read exactly what the extension does:
https://github.com/aydinozkan/youtube-highlight-player
---
*YouTube Highlight Player is an independent project and is not
affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google LLC.*