'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (for YouTube & Videos)
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- Extension status: Featured
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Set up the YouTube video player, Youtube theme / layout / style & content filters, once, today & enjoy that for years! With our YouTube-extension you have 85+ useful, unique features 🧰🔧. To make your experience on YouTube a whole lot better & save you a lot of clicks & time.
✔️ Open-source & free charity since 2012!
✔️ Extra video playback features for: Embedded YouTube & the Internet (We're also working on Facebook, mobile m.youtube, Netflix, Twitch, Vimeo)
✔️ Applies settings more conveniently than other Youtube Extensions: Live with no reload ⌛
🎖️🏆 Press Reviews:
"Enhances YouTube in meaningful ways" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐https://www.gHacks.net/2021/03/26/improved-youtube-enhances-youtube-in-meaningful-ways)
We are now "RECOMMENDED by FIREFOX"!🦊(only 109 extensions & not the first one for YouTube)
"Might be the best YouTube Extension Ever" (https://LifeHacker.com/this-might-be-the-only-youtube-browser-extension-youll-1846575110)
⋮⚙️⋮ Many features, some can only be found here(🦄we pioneered)
🎞️☕🎨 To List A Few:
➕ Youtube Video Description: Expand always ➕ Expand Youtube videos to your full window. ➕ adblocker you can adblock ➖ & white-list ads on your channel subscriptions
➕ Shortcut / Scroll to adjust Volume.➕ Resize YouTube videos ( Youtube player Size )➕ Youtube Screenshot (download print save a video Frame) ➕ Default/fixed Video Quality to match your Display 720p 1080p 4k 8k or bandwidth 480p 240p 144p ➕ avoid 60 frames vs 30 fps ➕ hide distraction declutter attention / teaching screenshare presentation ➕ Remove Related Videos ➕ Hide Youtube Comments ➕ Remove Header ➕ Hide Annotations ➕ Hide live chat ➕ reverse Youtube Playlist, Shuffle Playlist ➕ watch video frame by frame.
⏯️🔁🔀 Extra Player Buttons (optional): Loop Repeat ➕ Rotate Video ➕ Buttons ➕ Default audio volume Level
➕ Default Playback Speed ➕ Pip Picture in Picture
➕⌘+⇧ Shortcuts: Customize Youtube Player Shortcuts / Hotkeys 🧩
ⓘ Official Accounts:
• 🌱👪Community/Volunteers:
https://github.com/Code4Charity/Youtube-Extension
• Website: https://improvedtube.com • Twitter: @ImprovedTube
ImprovedTube is lightweight 🍃 (You can expect all normal YouTube functions to work as expected!) We also don't see you (🔒 privacy): It only needs permission to access youtube visuals & runs offline (Unlike many extensions out there.) We can't care about what video you watch, just that you have a better time.
➕ Analyse your activity 📈, Block by Video (Channel tag category)
➕ Video Volume Mixer🎛️🔊🧪
➕ Player Auto-Play: Off
➕ "Up Next": Off (Reset Youtube's "Autoplay" after every video )➖ playlist Auto-Play: On
➕ Auto-pause ➕ Loudness normalization ➕ Youtube Subtitles captions transacript always on/off
➕ Dark mode ✓ Schedule better viewing at night time ✓ Dark theme and Black theme
✓ Blue-light filter (Preserve sleep. Relax eyes) ✓ Display dim
➕Toggle Youtube Player Controls ➕Overwrite Youtube Shortcuts & Hotkeys
➕Hide YT details ➕ set YT language ➕ ImprovedTube Search ➕Tweak YT's "Scroll for details"
🌎 translated to 24 languages
We♥ Youtube Extension Devs & tried many unique/friendly, notably cool, smart features
• check https://improvedtube.com (what else is great?)( Compatiblity: you don't need common features (some copy our code)('adblock' 'youtube adblocker' 'dark theme for youtube' 'automatic 4K auto hd popout 'lights off' floating cinema mode, theater mode, looper replay repeater, player speed control 'video speed controller' window expander, magic actions, youtube enhancer - But you CAN just try what you need, i.e.
sponsor skip adblock, besides a YT Extension works with "access youtube.com" / You dont need to accept "alerts "change privacy settings "access all websites "browser history - could be optional opt-in)
⇒New:
➕ Mini Player scrolling
➕ draggable ImprovedTube icon on youtub
✓ New Menu suits Touchscreen (2-d & little more space) ✓ Legacy List style
➕ Channel enable "featured content" (vs channel intro trailer)
➕ Mimic retro classic YT Theme Style Layout ➕ Thumbnail HD .gif : OFF
➕ H264 codec (h264ify to speed up Player / save CPU electricity. H.264 encoding is faster, efficient in GPUs designed before 2016 AV1 VP8 VP9 Flash)
➕ Pop-out Player ("always-on-top is possible through OS or an app OS)
🔎Found a bug❓🐞🐛 - If you notice any issue, require help, or wish a new feature🌟🧚 please post on Github or contacting us. Or use "Support" next to "Reviews". Please don't complain in the Reviews immediately. We work hard 🏋️👩💻 to make your experience a 5/5 Stars experience.
[email protected] 📧
[email protected] 📧
⇒Status: Just Fixed: [x] Collapse YT comments [x] Channel Video counter
We are not affiliated with YouTube or an official extension.
This extension is independently developed for use with Youtube since 2012©️
Latest reviews
- Anonymous
- deadly...
- Anonymous
- Perfect 👌
- Anonymous
- Custom player size dont works
- Anonymous
- Ever since my go to Youtube extensions began dying, this was the only other option I've been able to find that has pretty much every feature I wanted. Love this extension and thank you to everyone involved. However, it seems to have a minor but annoying issue. Sometimes the extension disappears from the page (i.e the buttons and features vanish). I think it might be related to how I use PiP, like if I click on another tab with a PiP popup open. Sometimes the buttons come back after closing the popup and refreshing, other times I have to disable/re-enable the extension to get it working again Thankfully I found Extensity which made this process less of a headache. Idk just freaks me out for a moment when the buttons are gone lol
- Anonymous
- Mostly good QoL stuff but even though I have no adblocker enabled for youtube.com, I'm gettting popups from YouTube saying I'm using an adblocker. It'd be nice if that wasn't happening. Otherwise, I love this extension.
- Anonymous
- This really improves the experience.
- Anonymous
- good but needs work, specially an option to select how many column we want on the video grids (home, channel and subscriptions)
- Anonymous
- nothing too say
- Anonymous
- great. was looking for that since youtube new UI was breaking several things.
- Anonymous
- Please give a shortcut for saving to playlist
- Anonymous
- R E Q U I R E D if you are a YouTube addict. Thank you for adding the 'remove auto dubbing' feature. I can't believe that YouTube added that without giving their creators an option to opt out. I use this add-on to hide shorts/ai-slop features that they're trying to force on us, so any improvements and continued support to those ends from the developers for this add-on are greatly appreciated! Incredible add-on~!
- Anonymous
- This Normally works great - but there are some issues causing my browser to freeze up hard when watching videos now. It was probably an update on YouTube's end - but hoping the creators of this plugin fix it soon!
- Anonymous
- with this enabled, most videos wont play, the page loads with paused video but when i click to resume it, it wont let me resume at all, i have to disable extension so i can watch some videos...
- Anonymous
- Dear Creator, the "Blacklist" feature isn't working! I clicked "Add to Blocklist," but the channel and its videos are still displayed even after refreshing.
- Anonymous
- peak
- Anonymous
- Great extensions!
- Anonymous
- Great extension but Pop out video not working. Showing "This video is unavailable Error code: 4". Hey dev kindly fix this issue.
- Anonymous
- Rotate icon not showing anymore. If we set a shortcut for it, that's working fine but we don't see the rotate icon anymore.
- Anonymous
- Quick Question: Will this extension help me bypass the YouTube Age ID verification?
- Anonymous
- Massive customization options. It appears to be a really good extension as of day one.
- Anonymous
- Youtube's features are sometimes annoying, which this extension fixes. GOATED!!!!!
- Anonymous
- Please Give speed buttons on youtube shorts.
- Anonymous
- great works as advertised but the buttons next to the channel name do cause some names to be unable to be seen
- Anonymous
- I had been using it without issues, but at some point, I started facing a problem where the Home, Playlist, and Video List tabs on YouTube channels would crash the page. I couldn't interact with anything on those tabs until I closed them. At first, I thought it was an issue with the Chrome browser, so I switched to another Chrome-based browser, but after reinstalling the extension, the same issue occurred. To find the cause, I used Chrome Developer Tools' debugger feature to check which code was causing the issue, and I found that it was hanging at the following section in the extension's blocklist.js: this.blocklistChannelObserver = new MutationObserver(function () { if (!button.isConnected) { node.parentNode.parentNode.appendChild(button); } }); When I disabled the blocklist feature, the problem stopped occurring.
- Anonymous
- More than half of the options don't work. Every Chrome update something causes more options to not work at all. Autoplay was the last thing to stop working.
- Anonymous
- Just installed this today, it was able to solve my biggest issues at the moment, remove shorts and clearly mark videos that I have already watched. I do wish there was some sort of indication of what every feature does, but I am sure I can figure it out, and if not, I will head to your Github page for some answers. Great extension!
- Anonymous
- Loving it, the options of language and virtual travel that works is a plus
- Anonymous
- Only the Best - One to rule them all. Totally recommended!!
- Anonymous
- Very good, but hope I can use 'Don't speed up' option at Music category too, not only Education.
- Anonymous
- Unfortunately it has started to make Youtube very slow, despite ad-blocking function not being activated. I guess some function of the extension is misinterpreted by youtube as an ad-block and so Youtube activates its aggressive anti-ad-blocking function. Hope you will fix this issue.
- Anonymous
- perfect.excellent . 1st you need update your chrome vetsion to latest version. need devoloper update - full screen live chat on screen like''youtube chat in full screen extensions) -new shotcut kesys (qulity up down) ,video zoom in /zoom out -mouse scroll with keybord key use updown volium,britness,speed,zoom - last 5 history shows on homepage but need change blar thumbnails i have more ideas. how i contact developers i wish hope new update comming soon
- Anonymous
- Youtube is detecting adblocker feature. Fix it
- Anonymous
- Time counter bug. Example: A 10 minute video at 5 second mark used to be like this: 0:05/10:00 But now its like this: 10:00/(-09:55) Please fix this.
- Anonymous
- Hello, good extension, but was there a feature to remove rounded angles on youtube player? I would love to use my usual square players, if there was none, can you consider adding it?
- Anonymous
- Reversing playlists - genius.
- Anonymous
- it seems to work then out of no where the site breaks, youtube flagged me for using a blocker then gave me a black screen. i had to remove all blockers and non worked until i removed this and now youtube works. then i put it back and it still works, but minus the ad. so i don't know if mine was corrupt or an update messed it up but it seems to work again, but it also broke it, so i'm giving it a 3.
- Anonymous
- Playback speed does not work.
- Anonymous
- Used to work perfectly fine. Now it just breaks YouTube's player. Some of the extra buttons that I want displayed are there, but that's about it - The rest of the functionality is a hit or miss - It will either work or not work at all. In addition to this, some settings won't get enabled or disabled, even if I turn them on or off in the settings of the extension. I will not be using this extension anymore, and I don't recommend anyone else to use it either.
- Anonymous
- works fine. add blocking takes a little longer recently.
- Anonymous
- It is sad to me that in order to have a semi-functional enjoyable experience on youtube I have to use 3-4 extensions but this extension makes that easier to forget about. It reminds me of the early days of the internet where the user came first. The amount of options for customization available is really just exciting. The extension does break when first booting chrome requiring you to open a video then refresh the page for some things to work but you usually only have to do that once per boot (small price to pay). The ability to block Youtube Playables, increase or decrease the number of videos per row on the home screen and remove the "for you" section on youtuber's pages would consolidate my extensions by 2. It would also be nice to be able to block videos with fewer than 1000 views that were posted over a day ago as youtube seemingly has been pushing low quality content like crazy recently.
- Anonymous
- love it, works rly well altho ill be honest i came here for a better shuffle button if you could make that ill change it to 5*
- Anonymous
- Show video remaining duration stopped working
- Anonymous
- nice
- Anonymous
- New features must be added due to YouTube's changes. - "Always on Progress bar" problem (the dot still shows after the cursor is moved away). - Fix the videos, posts, and shorts row and column (or customize the row and column choice because YouTube has gotten worse). For the time being, I believe that these two are the most crucial. The last update was in December 2024, which was 5 months ago. Are you still alive, Developer?
- Anonymous
- It has stroke rn, everything is shaking when enabled.
- Anonymous
- Auto-pip not working reliably
- Anonymous
- very innovative and easy to use.
- Ömer Demir
- Windows 10 da çok güzel çalışıyordu ama maalesef windows 11 de çalışmıyor. Bu uzantı bozuk olabilir Onar, uyarısı veriyor onar dediğimde onaramıyor her defasında aynı hatayı veriyor.😒😒😒
- Anonymous
- the option to stop auto play next video on playlist either doesn't exist or doesn't work. sometimes subtitle language is incorrect and doesn't get corrected
- Anonymous
- Doesn't come close to Tweaks For Youtube. And the UI is horrible.