Settings

Player

How videos play and how the progress bar looks.

General

Default quality every video starts at this quality when available

Show dislikes (Return YouTube Dislike API) RecommendedShows an estimated dislike count next to the like button

Volume

Wide volume slider A larger volume slider that's easier to grab

Volume slider width How wide the slider is when the wide slider is on

80360170 px

Progress bar

Buffer bar (always visible) RecommendedKeeps a thin progress line visible even when the controls are hidden

Custom YouTube progress bar style applies colors, texture, glow and size to the native bar and the always-visible bar

Progress colors played, buffered and track background

Played Buffered Track

Bar height Thickness of the bar

2144 px

Corner radius 0 = square ends

0188 px

Always-visible bar opacity How see-through the always-visible bar is

2010095 %

Progress glow Soft light around the played part

Progress image / texture the uploaded image is stored locally and applied to the played part

Use image No image

Scrubber

Scrubber size Size of the round knob

83016 px

Scrubber border Color and thickness of the knob's outline

082 px

Scrubber image customize the little knob you drag along the bar

Use image No image

SponsorBlock

Automatically skips sponsors, intros and other segments reported by the community.

Skip segments Recommended

Notify when skipping Shows a small message each time a segment is skipped

Categories to skip

Click a category to turn it on or off

Data provided by the SponsorBlock community project (sponsor.ajay.app).

Tools & extras

Adds a Tools button to the player: screenshot, audio boost, rotate/zoom, picture settings, audio only, sleep timer.

Player tools

Skip button step How far the back / forward buttons jump

59010 s

A‑B loop Repeat a part of the video between two markers you drag on the bar

The Tools and “A‑B” buttons appear in the player bar.

Slowed + Reverb

Slows music down and adds reverb for a dreamy, lo-fi feel.

Enable effect

Speed 1.00× = normal speed, lower = slower and deeper

0.5×1×0.85×

Reverb How much echo is mixed in

010035%

Reverb length How long the echo lasts

152.5 s

The effect applies to the current video and the next ones while it's on. You can also adjust it live from the player's Tools button.

Hide distractions

Hide the parts of YouTube you don't want to see. Nothing is deleted, just hidden.

Feeds & pages

Shorts Removes Shorts from feeds, search and the menu

Home page recommendations Shows an empty Home page so you only search for what you need

Trending / Explore (menu) Hides these entries in the left menu

Mixes / radio Hides auto-generated mixes in feeds

While watching

Comments Hides the comment section under videos

Suggested videos (right column) Hides the column of next videos

End screen suggestion wall Hides the grid of videos shown when a video ends

Filters & thumbnails

Hide videos by length and add useful info under thumbnails.

Video length

Filter by length (hide videos that are too short / too long) Applies to Home, search, subscriptions and suggestions

Minimum length 0 = no minimum min

Maximum length 0 = no maximum min

Thumbnails

Show like ratio under thumbnails (next to views) Uses the free Return YouTube Dislike API

Thumbnails per row on Home and channels 0 = YouTube's automatic layout

Comments

Show only comments in your language and get a quick mood summary.

Filter comments by language Hides comments written in other languages

Comment language to show Comments in this language stay visible

Summarize comment mood AI analysis of loaded comments: toxic, funny, helpful, positive, etc.

Watched videos & playlists

Remembers what you've watched so you can spot it at a glance.

Mark watched Recommended

On thumbnails

Threshold to mark as watched A video counts as watched after this share of it is played

59540%

Dim thumbnails of watched videos Watched videos look faded so new ones stand out

Show the “WATCHED” badge Adds a small label on the thumbnail

Recommendations & lists

Hide watched videos from recommendations Only suggests videos you haven't seen yet

Playlist completion tracking (dashboard) Shows your progress in each playlist on the dashboard

“Watch later” cleanup Recommendeddetects deleted, private or already watched videos

Continue watching

Remember where you stopped in every video

Remember position

Jump back to where you left off Reopening a video starts at the saved moment

“Continue watching” row Show a Continue watching row on the home page

Focus timer

Set a daily YouTube budget and get break reminders while you watch.

Enable timer

Daily limit Total watch time per day before a reminder. 0 = no limit

08 h2 h

Session length Watch time in a row before a break is suggested. 0 = no limit

03 h45 min

Break length How long the suggested break lasts

1305 min

Timestamped notes

Timestamped notes under each video — Alt+N

Enable notes

Press Alt+N while watching to add a note at the current moment. Click a note's time to jump back to it. Notes stay on this computer and are included in backups.

Caption search

Search any word inside the captions — Ctrl+Shift+F

Enable caption search

Remember captions Remember captions of videos you open to search them later (stored on this device)

Click the magnifier in the player or press Ctrl+Shift+F while watching. Click a result to jump to that moment. “All my videos” only searches videos you've opened with captions.

Watch statistics

See how much time you spend on YouTube and on which channels. Stays on this computer.

Record my watch time

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Total time

—

Today

—

Last 7 days

Top channels

—

Recap

Weekly and yearly recap Weekly and yearly recap in the dashboard

Your recaps Time watched, favourite channels and highlights

This week Open my year in review

Subscription folders

Sort your subscriptions into folders in YouTube's left menu.

Enable folders

Manage folders right inside YouTube: open the left menu, use “＋ Folder” above your subscriptions, or hover a channel and click the folder icon to file it. Click “⋯” on a folder to rename it, change its color or add auto-sort keywords.

AI assistant

AI chapters, playlist tools and comment mood use the provider configured here.

AI provider

Method Gemini Nano is free and private; “Copy” uses your own ChatGPT / Gemini tab; API options need a key

API key Your key for the chosen provider (OpenAI: sk-…, Gemini: AIza…)

OpenAI model Leave the default if unsure

Gemini model Leave the default if unsure

AI answer language Language of generated chapters, quizzes and comment analysis

AI chapters

Chapters on the progress bar Automatic mode uses the configured AI for each video: free and local with Gemini Nano, paid with an API key

Playlists

Playlist summary & quiz Summarize a whole playlist and generate a quiz

With “Copy to my ChatGPT / Gemini”, no key is needed: the transcript is copied and the chat opens, then paste with Ctrl+V.

Dubbing & voice

Translates captions and reads them aloud in your language, in sync with the video.

The player's dubbing button translates the video's captions and reads them aloud, in sync. Without a local server, the browser's voice is used automatically.

Basics

Dubbing language language of the voice and translated subtitles

Auto-dub starts on its own when the video is in another language

Dub subtitles shows the translated text while the voice plays

Mute original audio otherwise it's only lowered

Voice engine

Voice engine Browser voice works everywhere; the other engines sound more natural but need a local helper

Run tools/install-edge-tts.ps1 once

Run tools/install-pocket-tts.ps1 once

Edge voice Multilingual voices can also read other languages

Local TTS endpoint Address of the local voice server

TTS model Filled in automatically when you pick an engine

TTS voice / reference voice path Kokoro: voice name (e.g. af_heart). Chatterbox: path to a reference audio file

Local TTS acceleration Keep CPU unless you have an NVIDIA graphics card

Auto-clone the video's voice Chatterbox imitates the voice of the person speaking in the video

Local diagnostics

The Test button starts the selected voice engine through the local native host, then checks the audio. The first launch may download dependencies and models.

Start/test local TTS: —

Extension ID: —

Local diagnostics: —

Audio transcription (no captions)

Transcribe audio when there are no captions Used when a video has no captions, for summaries and dubbing

Whisper endpoint Address of the local Whisper server

ASR model Speech-recognition model used by Whisper

Translation isn't available on live streams.

Language learning mode

Learn a language with bilingual subtitles and a clickable transcript.

Show button

Turns on the A文 button in the YouTube player: bilingual subtitles, interactive transcript, sentence-by-sentence navigation and click-to-translate. Pick the subtitle language here.

Subtitle language (target) Language of the translated line

Video's original language (source) Leave on Auto unless detection gets it wrong

Word translation on hover Translate a word when you hover it, with pronunciation

Personal lexicon Save words to your personal lexicon — open it from the dashboard

My lexicon Words you saved while watching

Open my lexicon

Data

Back up your data, move it to another computer and bring in your past YouTube history.

Backup & sync

Export all data Settings, watched videos, playlists, notes, statistics… in one .json file

Import backup Restore a file made with “Export all data”. You'll see what's inside before anything changes.

Reminder to back up every month Shows a reminder on this page when your last export is older than 30 days

YouTube history

Import full YouTube history merges Chrome history, the YouTube history page and YouTube's internal APIREADY

Import Google Takeout history Accepts watch-history.json or watch-history.html from Google Takeout (YouTube and YouTube Music). Large files are fine.

How to get the file

Open takeout.google.com
Click “Deselect all”, then tick “YouTube and YouTube Music”.
Click “All YouTube data included” and keep only “history”.
Click “Multiple formats” and choose JSON for history.
Create the export, download the .zip and unzip it.
Pick Takeout › YouTube and YouTube Music › history › watch-history.json here.

Watched history: 0 videosVideos remembered by the extension

Danger zone

These actions erase data and can't be undone.

Watched history Forgets every video marked as watched. Thumbnails will no longer be marked.

Playlist progress Resets the progress of all tracked playlists on the dashboard.

Watch statistics Deletes your recorded watch time and top channels.

Caption cache Forgets the captions remembered for caption search.

Reset everything (settings + data) Restores every setting to its default and erases watched history, playlists, folders, statistics and images.

Most used

Player

Tools & extras

Slowed + Reverb

Hide distractions

Filters & thumbnails

Comments

Watched videos & playlists

Continue watching

Focus timer

Timestamped notes

Caption search

Watch statistics

Subscription folders

AI assistant

Dubbing & voice

Language learning mode

Data

Danger zone

Import backup

Statistiques techniques facultatives