Immerse yourself in YouTube™ videos with ambient light!
This extension will surround YouTube™ videos with ambient light inside your browser. No need for extra hardware like lightstrips or smart lights like ambilight, it's all in your browser!
Tip:
Are you using a widescreen or portrait monitor? Enable both the "Remove black bars" and "Fill video to screen" features to automatically fill your monitor with any video that has black bars.
Features:
1. Ambient light
- Blur
- Spread
- Fade in duration
2. Remove black & colored bars
- Remove bars
- Remove sidebars
- Also remove colored bars
- Fill video to screen
3. Filters
- Brightness
- Contrast
- Vibrance
- Saturation
4. Video
- Size (scale/zoom)
- Shadow
5. Video page content
- Shadows on elements
- Buttons, boxes and images opacity
- Hide elements in theater mode
- Translucent header
6. Quality
- Limit framerate (per second)
- Resolution
7. General
- Appearance (theme): Light, Default, Dark
- Enable only in view mode(s): small, theater, fullscreen
- Enable in Picture-in-picture mode
- Enabled/Disabled
Advanced features:
1. Ambient light
- Edge size
- Fade out start
- Fade out curve
- Debanding (noise/dithering)
- Flicker reduction
- Smooth motion (Frame blending)
2. Directions
- Top, right, bottom, left
3. Remove black & colored bars
- Bar detection offset
- Bar detection average
- Bar size (manual control)
- Sidebar size (manual control)
- Reset bars next video
4. Video
- Sync video with ambient light
- Debanding (noise/dithering)
5. Video page content
- Hide scrollbar
6. Quality
- Synchronization: Display framerate, Video framerate
- WebGL renderer (Uses less power)
- Save energy on static videos
7. Stats
- Framerate stats
- Frametime stats
- Resolution and drawtime stats
- Bar detection stats
Settings management features:
- Quickly import/export all settings to or from a file or cloud storage
Requirement:
A video card with a score of at least 1000 points in the PassMark G3D Mark benchmark is recommended.
Check your video card's score here: https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php
With a score lower than 1000 the extension will still work but it is likely that the YouTube video page will be slow and/or stuttering.
Contribute:
You can view the source code and contribute to this open source project at https://github.com/WesselKroos/youtube-ambilight
Privacy & Security
This extension only runs on tabs that start with the url https://www.youtube.com. The extension will only activate the ambient light effect on YouTube's /watch page
The only requests being sent are crash reports. (But crash reports can be turned off.) No other requests are sent to any webserver, website or api. But in case a crash occurs the report is sent to Sentry.io and will always be deleted after 30 days. Because the only goal of these crash reports is to fix the crash. While doing so we also take into account your Do Not Track preference. For more information about Do Not Track visit https://allaboutdnt.com
Latest reviews
- (2024-04-13) N.: This is my second must have extension on a browser after adblock. Not only is the ambient light much better than youtubes, but it also completely declutters youtube when watching with "hide everything in theatre mode" enabled. I can never go back to normal youtube. This extension needs much more exposure!
- (2023-11-09) Quang Dai: I felt awful for doubting this extension! Initially, I wondered why I needed this when YouTube already supports ambient mode natively. But oh my, with this extension and the customizations it brings, it takes the experience to a whole new level as long as you fine-tune it to your preferences. There are customizations beyond expectations that you can come up with. Respect to the person who created this!
- (2023-10-26) るミオ: Amazing work
- (2023-10-14) Wim Kuiper: This is such an amazing extension! It really gives a pleasant YouTube viewing experience, with a handful of customisation options at hand. I've got one question though: will you implement ambient theme to YouTube shorts and the YouTube home website? Definitely recommend!
- (2023-08-24) Simon: Very cool plugin as a replacement for the cinema light from Youtube. However, for some time now I have had the problem that I always have black bars on the left and right in cinema mode. For a while I had the ambient light on the sides in cinema mode as it should be. Now there are only black bars there. But the plugin still works at the top and bottom. And then I have another problem, namely that not everything is hidden when I activate the "Hide everything" function. Only everything above the video is hidden, only below. I hope there will be another update.
- (2023-07-30) Adrian Black: Please make the same extension for netflix
- (2023-07-28) Proceph: This thing is amazing! In addition to customizing the ambient light, it has options to edit the look and feel of Youtube as a whole too! Also, the tooltips are indeed quite helpful!
- (2023-07-04) eu adorei todo mundo devia baixa 1 A 10 daria 9.8
- (2023-06-14) Frog Greener: It works perfectly!
- (2023-05-09) ABU JAAFAR: era muy buena hasta hoy dejo de funcionar y la pagina se recarga continuamente
- (2023-05-06) D-Dragon: Exactly what I was looking for! Multiple settings to adjust and customize. Works really well
- (2023-04-23) Marko Oette: Works pretty well. Lots of settings. Nice effect.
- (2023-04-06) Felker Xiang: Makes YouTube feel a whole lot more fun and fresh, especially if you tweak the settings to your likings, amazing!
- (2023-03-23) Mishal: I just love for the amoled dark mode
- (2023-03-04) DAN MOI: this is just like my govee backlight! fascinating
- (2023-03-04) Mæti: FINALLY! I've been searching for so long for something to make videos fit a 21:9 monitor without cropping. Could you please add some extra search terms so more people find this? Phenomenal work!
- (2023-03-03) Jayden Leckpa: OMG this is amazing!
- (2023-02-04) GLOMBY: Güzel çalışıyor.
- (2023-01-28) Scotty Pills: Sick! Looks amazing! For 21:9 monitors must-have app
- (2023-01-24) Blake: GOOD
- (2023-01-02) Andrej Vidošić: AWESOME! IN LOVE WITH IT
- (2022-12-19) John Millets: Это лучшее что я видел. Идеально при просмотре видео для экрана 21:9.
- (2022-12-16) Faizaan M.: LOOKS AMAZING!!! This is a massively underatted extension. I REALLY don't write reviews but this was such a great extension that did what it says and more that I had to leave a review! AMAZING!!
- (2022-11-27) Tùng Nguyễn: Much better than the official one.
- (2022-11-18) Avi Wasserman: I love the effect and the customization options
- (2022-11-11) Oomingmak K: Works well in light mode.
- (2022-11-05) Alry FireBlade: It isn't something essential or MUST-HAVE, but a nice touch of atmosphere it adds. It works fine with the "Vivaldi" Browser at the moment, I write this review. I give it 5/5 Stars, because it does exactly what I want, and you have many settings to mess around with, if you want to. I just keep it as it is and don't mess with it.
- (2022-11-03) trause.: Очень красивое расширение! Можно настроить сам блюр и т.п Стало безумно атмосферно.
- (2022-10-29) -noodles: Great extension. Very well made and works perfectly.
- (2022-10-29) Micki Wollin: This is AMAZING!
- (2022-10-26) Milan S: doesnt really work anymore after youtube's recent appearance change
- (2022-10-02) Данила Мороков: Found by an accident. Love it!
- (2022-07-29) MichaF: Yo man, this extension rocks! I stumbled upon my old video that i recorded on this extension and i thought: HEY! I forgot about that. And I have installed it immediately after this. This is probably the best extension for yt, so many options, with 3440x1440 monitor is.. WOW. Can I somehow support you? Not a big amount becasue I don't earn much but i can send like 10$ and I hope it would help a bit :)
- (2021-12-03) Kapix: this extension is great
- (2021-11-08) Murilo GS: "RECKLESS"
- (2021-04-30) Ray Oda: I was rating this extension with 5 stars, but it doesn't work now, check it out out man <<<Edit>>> It works now well, Thx so much Wessel, It's one of my favorite extensions.
- (2021-04-23) RENAN FALCHI: I LOVED IT!!!
- (2021-04-02) Zane Ondrejko: This thing is SIck az. When you first install it you will want to do a bit tweaking with the setting on advanced mode to get it to your personal preference and if your on a weaker device, i recommend turning up the "edge size" as it will give your more FPS. When you do get it to your liking it is super cool.
- (2021-03-23) Olim Pather: The motion smoothing is really bad compared to my Samsung TV's motion smoothing.
- (2021-01-20) Victor: Muy bien
- (2020-12-12) Jiabo Hu: On Mac this extension will make youtube super slow
- (2020-11-02) Storm-Julian Tersteeg: Amazing plugin! Really adds to immersion. Best plugin that does this job, lots of settings to mess with too.
- (2020-11-01) ᴊoa͠o ᴍoura: Great work!
- (2020-10-30) Artyom Pertsovsky: This is great extension. Been looking for a general app to do this on any video (svp 4 pro does it also) and stumbled upon this. For the browser / youtube this is very good.
- (2020-08-20) Shovon Talukder: IF you have a dedicated GPU then you will have no issue to run it.. So Smooth, Um loving it !! Keep up the good work guys ..
- (2020-07-30) claypot: Super appealing to look at and doesn't have a big negative effect on YouTube's performance, but I recently encountered a bug in which text stops loading on YouTube pages with this active. If that were fixed, it'd easily be a 5/5.
- (2020-07-29) Richard Ponce: Excelente extension. Muchas Gracias por solucionar el BUG en youtube respecto a los nombre. :D
- (2020-06-25) Ryan Donkor: Very good and works well with a 21:9 monitor
- (2020-01-13) Rabin upadhaya: Must use feature if you love to watch your favorite videos and experience the ambiance.
- (2019-12-28) Kyle SPCR: This is crazy cool, why is this not uber popular - I LOVE this!!!