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DeArrow

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DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. No more arrows, ridiculous faces, and no more clickbait.

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  • Free • Open Source

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  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox
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  1.  Crowdsourced
  2.  Community-based
  3.  Browser extension
  4. YouTube icon  Youtube integration

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  •  1,772 Stars
  •  53 Forks
  •  106 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 21, 2025 
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about DeArrow, and it has gotten 12 likes

DeArrow was added to AlternativeTo by Paul on Jun 15, 2023 and this page was last updated Jul 2, 2025.

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Excellently reduces sensationalism of YouTube thumbnails, and provides more accurate titles to the videos.

The titles and thumbnails are based on user submissions, just like SponsorBlock (same developer), but also has an option to show a thumbnail from a random frame of the video, as well as automatically case-normalize the title.

What is DeArrow?

DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. No more arrows, ridiculous faces, and no more clickbait.

"Clickbait" isn't the exception anymore, it's becoming the norm. Many have even started going through their entire backlog, changing old titles and thumbnails to be more attention grabbing and vague. It's no one's fault. It's a system that creates a race to the bottom. DeArrow hopes to stop this cycle. It's time to return to a more peaceful experience.

Titles can be any arbitrary text. Thumbnails are screenshots from specific timestamps in the video. These are user submitted and voted on. By default, if there are no submissions, it will format the original title to the user-specified format, and set a screenshot from a random timestamp as the thumbnail. This can be configured in the options to disable formatting, or show the original thumbnail by default.

DeArrow is developed by the same developers as SponsorBlock icon SponsorBlock, which is already used in dozens of applications

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