'Improve YouTube!' (Video & YouTube Tools) (2024)

Set up YouTube video player & YouTube theme, layout, style - 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 now also working on Facebook, mobile m.youtube, Netflix, Twitch, Vimeo)
✔️ Applies settings more conveniently than any other Youtube Extension: Live with no⌛reload

Press Reviews (2021):
"Might be the best YouTube Extension Ever" (https://LifeHacker.com/this-might-be-the-only-youtube-browser-extension-youll-1846575110)
"Enhances YouTube in meaningful ways" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐https://www.gHacks.net/2021/03/26/improved-youtube-enhances-youtube-in-meaningful-ways)

⋮⚙️⋮ Many features, some can only be found here(we pioneered)
➕ 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 youtube details ➕ set youtube language ➕ ImprovedTube Search ➕Tweak youtube's "Scroll for details"

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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 youtube 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:
➕ Youtube Mini Player scrolling
➕ draggable ImprovedTube icon on youtube
➕ Channel enable "featured content" (vs channel intro trailer)
➕ Mimic retro classic youtube Theme Style Layout ➕ Youtube 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)
➕ Youtube 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.

bugs@improvedtube.com
ideas@improvedtube.com
⇒Status: Just Fixed: [x] Collapse youtube comments [x] Channel Video counter
[✓] Youtube Autoplay & Autopause
[✓] Force Youtube Theater Mode
[✓] Youtube-Player Size
[✓] Dim & Bluelight
[✓] YouTube-Screenshot
[✓] YouTube Video Quality

We are not affiliated with YouTube or an official extension.
This extension is independently developed for use with Youtube since 2012©️