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Zenith - Upgrade for YouTube

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View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 16 Oct 2026

Enhance & improve YouTube with Loop, Zoom, Audio EQ, Speed Control, QoL features & Themes. Take control for the ultimate experience.

Users
577
+139 in 30 days
Rating
4.8 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
4
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#41K
#34K among extensions
Version
1.5.5
updated 19 Jul 2026

Users

monthly, 8 months
0288577Feb 2026Jul 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 577 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 8 months
024Feb 2026Jul 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 4 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 Zenith - Upgrade for YouTube

Enhance your YouTube With highly customizable settings. Take full control! Zenith adds a wide range of features such as: Audio Equalizer, Gif Creation, Theme Customization, Screenshot tool, Speed Control, Volume booster, shorts Blocker and much more 🎬 Video & Playback Mastery: • Loop videos: Adds a button in the playback bar to auto-loop the video • A-B Looping: Loop specific sections perfectly. Great for music practice or tutorials. • Speed Control (Up to 16x): Break the 2x limit! Go from 0.1x up to 16x speed with persistent settings. • Zoom & Pan: Use the magnifying glass icon to zoom into details (works on Shorts too!). • Rotate & Flip: Fix orientation or mirror videos instantly. • Quality-Lock: Force videos to play in 4K or 1080p automatically. No more fuzzy auto-quality. • Picture-in-Picture (PiP): Watch videos or Shorts while browsing other tabs. • Scroll speed control: Use Ctrl + scroll to adjust the playback speed down to 0.10x and up to 16x speed. You can also change the sensitivity of your scroll • Quick access controls: This adds buttons in the playback bar, shorts and sticky popup. You can remove the buttons you don't want in the dashboard • persistent speed: Choose a speed e.g. 1.2x on all videos 🎧 Advanced Audio Control: • Volume Booster (500%): Blast past the 100% limit for quiet videos. • 10-Band Equalizer: Includes 8 presets (Bass Boost, Vocal / podcast, Pop, etc.) or save your own. • Compressor / Limiter: Normalize audio (make loud sounds quieter, quiet sounds louder). • Audio effects: 6 premium audio effects, Slowed + reverb, Nightcore, Sub octaver (Deep bass) and more • Mono Audio: Perfect for fixing videos with audio in only one ear. • Scroll Volume: Adjust volume instantly with your mouse wheel over the player. • Text-to-speech comments: Adds a speaker icon next to each comment. When you click the speaker icon it reads the comment. Choose from 24 different voices and 15+ languages ⚡ Productivity & Focus: • Hide Shorts: Remove Shorts from feed, search, and recommended. Reclaim your attention. • Focus Mode: Blur all distractions surrounding the video. • Sponsor Block: skips sponsored segments in YouTube videos, using the SponsorBlock api. Note: This is an opt-in feature. And you will be asked to grant permission to access (sponsor.ajay.app) api. Only if you enable it • Subtitle Explorer: Adds 4 search filters in the transcript and highlight your searched keywords • Auto-pause on tab switch: It pauses the video when you click on another tab. You can set it to start the video again when you return to the video or you can set it to still be paused when you return • Timestamps & Notes: Save bookmarks with notes for any video. (Saved in library) • Library: see and manage your own timestamps, screenshots and gifs • Sticky popup: The sticky popup appears when you scroll past the video. It adds 5 buttons to control the video. • Detach popup: Detach and drag your popup around the screen, without it disappearing when you click on yt elements • Hide watched videos: Hides videos you have already watched • Hide endscreen cards: Hides the recommended videos that pop up the last 5-10 seconds of a video • Hide members only videos: Hides the members only videos. The ones you have to pay to watch • Hide videos by duration: Gives you the ability to hide videos shorter than x minutes and hide videos longer than x minutes. • Hide playlists: Hides playlists as well as mixes and radio • Hide search suggestions: Hides suggestions in the search bar • Hide your search history: Hides all your previous searches in the search bar • Quickly save and open sessions: save your watch progress by clicking the save button next to the youtube logo and continue watching the videos from where you left off. Your saved sessions are saved in the dashboard under the saved sessions tab. • Auto fullscreen mode: Automatically enables full screen mode when you click on a new video • Auto cinema mode: Automatically enables cinema mode when you click on a new video • Instant autoplay skip: If the autoplay is turned on it immediately skips to the next video when the video ends instead of having to wait 9 seconds for the next video to play 🎨 Visuals / Themes & layout: • Dark Mode & Themes: Choose from 11 presets (True Black, Vaporwave Neon, Sunset Drive And more) • Dynamic backgrounds: 12 animated backgrounds, that works together with your standard background presets and some reacts to audio • Color grading: Change 7 different color grading options to cater the videos to your liking. Additionally you have 6 grading presets such as dim (night), Low blue light, Sharpness enhancer Etc. • Change text color: There are 2 types of text colors that can be changed 1 is the ui text color and the other is the text on recommended videos • Change progress bar color: change the color of the progress bar in the videos • Change icon shapes: This is a part of the theme studio and it changes the shape ui icons such as like / dislike button, subscribe button and more. You can choose between rounded, square, hexagon and octagon shapes. And back to the default • Changing transparency and blur of sidebar / notification bar: This is a part of the premium features. You can play around with blur sliders, radius sliders and transparency checkbox, to get a frosted effect or liquid glass effect on your left sidebar, notification bar and your context menu • Swap comments and sidebar: This swaps the positions of the comments and the right sidebar so you can read and scroll through the comments while still watching the video • Independent sidebar scroll: You can independently scroll the right sidebar without scrolling the rest of the page • Sidebar thumbnail resizer: Adds a slider in the popup and dashboard to resize the thumbnails in the sidebar / recommended videos. • Restored subscription list view: YouTube recently removed the list view from the …

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days+93+19.2%00.00
30 days+139+31.7%00.00
6 months+395+217.0%00.00

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where Zenith - Upgrade for YouTube appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
upgrade#13−3
changelog#29+17

Version history

21 versions recorded
1.5.519 Jul 2026
1.5.422 May 2026
1.5.315 May 2026
1.5.21 May 2026
1.5.129 Apr 2026
1.5.026 Apr 2026
1.4.2315 Apr 2026
1.4.2213 Apr 2026

Details

Category
Tools
First seen
3 Feb 2026
Size
312 KB
Languages
en, id, es, fr, it, pt-BR, ru, ja
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
docs.google.com
Extension ID
ijemkepfnohkofhhcgcnlgkimjonogii

Permissions and risk

Low riskimpact 2, likelihood 1
Permissions
storageactiveTabunlimitedStorage
Site access
https://*.youtube.com/*

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