TubeHive: Organize YouTube Your Way

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YouTube has incredible learning content buried under Shorts, autoplay traps, comment sections, and a home feed designed to make you forget why you opened it. TubeHive turns YouTube into a workspace built for people who actually use it to learn.

Full feature list :-

🏠 Organize channels into Chambers
📦 Save videos to Vault
🗂️ Subgroups inside Chambers
🃏 Manage videos with Deck
⚡ Auto-organize subscriptions
📊 Local study analytics
🎯 Study Mode with timer
💾 Export & import backup
🔒 PIN-protected Focus Sessions
🏡 Hide YouTube home feed
📧 Friend email PIN accountability
🚧 Strict Mode for Chrome tabs
👁️ Hide Watch Next, Shorts, comments, etc
✅ Allowed pages whitelist

Details Below :-

🏠 Organize your subscriptions into Chambers. A Chamber is a focused group of YouTube channels around a topic Programming, UPSC Prep, Finance, Fitness, whatever you're working on. Inside each Chamber, you can go deeper with subgroups: a Programming Chamber can have DSA, Web Dev, System Design, and Interview Prep all separated out. Have too many subscriptions to sort by hand? Auto Organize scans your channels and builds the structure for you.

🎯 Enable Study Mode and block everything else. Pick a Chamber, start a session, and TubeHive blocks every channel outside it. No sidebar temptations, no related video rabbit holes just the content you chose. Add a timer and the session ends automatically when your study block is done.

🔒 Make quitting harder with PIN-protected Focus Sessions. Set a local PIN so you or someone sitting next to you has to enter it before the session ends. Want real accountability? Send the PIN to a trusted friend by email. Your friend holds it. You can only stop studying when they decide you've earned it. It sounds strict because it is and that's the point.

🚧 Lock down your whole browser with Strict Mode. Study Mode covers YouTube. Strict Mode covers everything else. When it's on, unrelated Chrome tabs get blocked too. You can whitelist specific sites LeetCode, GitHub, Notion, your college portal so the tools you need stay open while everything else is locked out.

🧹 Clean up YouTube with Detox Mode. Hide the home feed so you stop landing on recommendations. Remove Shorts from everywhere they appear. Hide comments, Watch Next suggestions, end-screen cards, live chat, search distractions, and autoplay prompts. What's left is just the video you came for.

📦 Save and revisit useful videos with Vault. Vault is TubeHive's local video library. Save anything worth keeping tutorials, lectures, references, course modules and come back to it without depending on YouTube's default playlists. Organize by Deck: Currently Learning, Revision, Completed, Project Resources. Move videos through stages as you actually make progress.

📊 Track your focus habits locally. TubeHive logs your study sessions, time spent, videos completed, and distractions blocked. All of it stays on your device. Use it to understand your patterns and stay honest with yourself.

🔐 No account. No data leaving your browser. TubeHive runs almost entirely in Chrome local storage. Chambers, Vaults, Decks, settings, analytics, PIN hashes all local. The only time anything leaves your device is when you choose to send a Focus PIN to a friend by email, and even then only a hash is stored, never the PIN itself. Back up your entire setup anytime and restore it whenever you need.

TubeHive is for students, competitive exam prep, self-learners, developers, and anyone who keeps opening YouTube to study and ending up somewhere completely different. Install it once. Actually use YouTube the way you meant to.