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Improve YouTube!

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Setup YouTube playback, layout and new features for Youtube once today and enjoy that for years! With our browser extension you have 42+ useful unique features to use with Youtube.

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    Open Source and Free product.
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •   Updated Jun 12, 2025 
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Improve YouTube!, and it has gotten 13 likes

Improve YouTube! was added to AlternativeTo by alternatom on Jul 27, 2019 and this page was last updated Jun 25, 2022. Improve YouTube! is sometimes referred to as Improve YouTube.

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alternatom
Jul 26, 2019
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It's feature rich and open source lightweight chrome addon

BeatEggli
Jun 23, 2020
0

If right, I chose the right channel for productivity. Thank you very much


Wenn rechtens habe ich der richtige Kanal für die Produktivität ausgewählt. Besten Dank

[Edited by Maoholguin, June 26]

What is Improve YouTube!?

Setup YouTube playback, layout and new features for Youtube once today and enjoy that for years! With our browser extension you have 42+ useful unique features to use with Youtube.

• Many functions can only be found here. To list a few: ? Video Description: Expand always ? customize youtube's player Size (Resize Youtube Video) ? Adblocker: you can block ads but white-list ads from your Youtubers / channel subscriptions ? Expand Youtube videos to full window width / height ? Default fixed Video Quality to always match your Screen and bandwidth: always 720p, 1080p, 4k, 8k ? Or simply 480p, 240p? avoid 60 frames (vs. 30 fps)? • Hide Elements (distraction free, or for teacher presentation): ? Remove Related Youtube Videos ? Remove Header ? Hide Annotations ? Hide Youtube Comments ? Hide live chat
? Reverse YouTube Playlist ? Shuffle Playlist ? H264 codec (h264ify to speed up Player / save CPU electricity. H.264 encoding is fast, efficient in GPUs built before 2016 without VP8 VP9 ) ? Customize Player Shortcuts / hotkeys

• Extra Player Buttons (optional): ? Loop (Repeat) ? "Screenshot" (Save current Video Frame) ? Rotate Video ? ... Buttons work in embedded player now, ? Default audio volume Level (in YT videos on Facebook & everywhere) ? Default Playback Speed also in embedded player now
? channel page: Enable / disable "featured content" and youtuber's intro trailer ? Mini Player (when scrolling down) ? Pop-out Player ("always-on-top" is only possible through an app or your OS)

• Auto-Play always off / on by default: ? Player Auto-Play ? Youtube's "Up Next" ? Playlist Auto-Play • Night mode: ? Schedule better viewing at night time ? Dark theme and Black theme ? Blue-light filter (Preserve sleep. Relax eyes) ? Display dim ? Auto-pause ? Loudness normalization ? Subtitles / captions always on/off ? Thumbnail: HD or .gif on/off