Heero Video & Image Enhancer

Tracking since Apr 16, 2026.

Changelog

• May 11, 2026
  description

  Take control of your media with Heero, a sleek, compact side panel designed to enhance your viewing experience across the web, enhancing images and videos in HTML5 players, including YouTube.
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  🎨 Real-Time Enhancement
  Fine-tune videos and images with brightness, contrast, saturation and sharpness adjustments.
  ‎‎ 
  ‎‎ 
  🔍 Precision Viewing Tools
  Magnifier: Zoom into specific details without losing context.
  Rotation Control: Instantly fix awkwardly filmed content with a dedicated slider.
  Playback speed: from frame-to-frame to 16x faster playback.
  ‎‎ 
  ‎‎ 
  🔊 Volume Booster
  Push your audio beyond the limit with a built-in gain controller for improved listening.
  ‎‎ 
  ‎‎ 
  ⚡ YouTube Supercharged
  Shorts: Watch Shorts in the standard, fully-featured video player.
  High-quality: Heero automatically sets videos to the maximum available quality for you.
  YouTube UI: Toggle the native UI off completely.
  HQ Thumbnails: Instantly open the high-resolution thumbnail of the video you're currently watching.
  ‎‎ 
  ‎‎ 
  🛠️ Useful Tools
  Presets: Allows you to save your favorite enhancements and access them easily later.
  Screenshots: Take source quality screenshots in one click.
  Arrow Navigation Everywhere: Lets you use your keyboard arrows to skip or go back 5 seconds even in players without native support.
  Whiteboard: Draw directly over the screen to highlight or annotate content in real-time.
  Force Cinema Mode: Strip away distractions for a focused, immersive viewing experience.
  Video Downloader: Save your favorite videos from supported websites, now improved (YouTube not supported).
  Video Recorder: When download is not supported, allows you to seamlessly record videos in source-quality.
  ‎‎ 
  ‎‎ 
  ⚙️ Tailored to Your Workflow
  Customise how Heero behaves: set the panel to open automatically, restrict it to YouTube, or use Manual Mode to activate the extension only when specifically requested.
  ‎ 
  ‎ 
  ‎ 
  ‎ 
  Have you seen how nice the icons in Heero are? They were designed by many awesome people, and shared for free at Flaticon.com. To comply with Chrome Web Store's requests, we have moved attribution links to our page: https://heero.pages.dev/attributions

  Take control of your media with Heero, a sleek, compact side panel designed to enhance your viewing experience across the web, enhancing images and videos in HTML5 players, including YouTube.
  ‎‎ 
  ‎‎ 
  🎨 Real-Time Enhancement
  Fine-tune videos and images with brightness, contrast, saturation and sharpness adjustments.
  ‎‎ 
  ‎‎ 
  🔍 Precision Viewing Tools
  Magnifier: Zoom into specific details without losing context.
  Rotation Control: Instantly fix awkwardly filmed content with a dedicated slider.
  Playback speed: from frame-to-frame to 16x faster playback.
  ‎‎ 
  ‎‎ 
  🔊 Volume Booster
  Push your audio beyond the limit with a built-in gain controller for improved listening.
  ‎‎ 
  ‎‎ 
  ⚡ YouTube Supercharged
  Shorts: Watch Shorts in the standard, fully-featured video player.
  High-quality: Heero automatically sets videos to the maximum available quality for you.
  YouTube UI: Toggle the native UI off completely.
  HQ Thumbnails: Instantly open the high-resolution thumbnail of the video you're currently watching.
  ‎‎ 
  ‎‎ 
  🛠️ Useful Tools
  Presets: Allows you to save your favorite enhancements and access them easily later.
  Screenshots: Take source quality screenshots in one click.
  Arrow Navigation Everywhere: Lets you use your keyboard arrows to skip or go back 5 seconds even in players without native support.
  Whiteboard: Draw directly over the screen to highlight or annotate content in real-time.
  Force Cinema Mode: Strip away distractions for a focused, immersive viewing experience.
  Video Downloader: Save your favorite videos from supported websites, now improved (YouTube not supported).
  Video Recorder: When download is not supported, allows you to seamlessly record videos in source-quality.
  ‎‎ 
  ‎‎ 
  ⚙️ Tailored to Your Workflow
  Customise how Heero behaves: set the panel to open automatically, restrict it to YouTube, or use Manual Mode to activate the extension only when specifically requested.

• Apr 29, 2026
  description

  Take control of your media with Heero, a sleek, compact side panel designed to enhance your viewing experience across YouTube and all HTML5 video players.
  
  🎨 Real-Time Visual Control
  Fine-tune your videos with brightness, contrast, and saturation adjustments, or use the rotate slider to fix awkwardly filmed content without ever leaving the page.
  
  ⚡ YouTube Supercharged
  Watch YouTube Shorts on the standard, fully-featured video player, while we ensure you are always watching in the highest resolution available.
  
  Toggle YouTube's native UI off completely, and if you need, instantly open the high-resolution thumbnail of the current video.
  
  🛠️ Essential Viewing Tools
  Heero equips you with precise playback speed adjustments, one-click screenshots, and a simple video downloader for supported websites.
  
  ⚙️ Tailored to Your Workflow
  Customise how Heero behaves: set the panel to open automatically, restrict the extension to run only on YouTube, or use manual injection mode so it only activates exactly when you need it.
  
  🔜 Expected in Coming Updates:
  
  +Keyboard shortcuts for ease of access;
  +Translations and custom themes;
  +More supported websites for video downloading;
  
  
  Note: Heero's downloader does not support YouTube
  
  
  
  
  Attibutions: Heero's icons were designed by many awesome people, and shared for free at Flaticon.com. You can check them out with the links below:
  
  Play video icons created by Prosymbols Premium - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/play-video)
  Thumbnail icons created by Icon mania - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/thumbnail)
  Slowly icons created by Freepik - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/slowly)
  Rotate icons created by Pixel perfect - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/rotate)
  Eye password icons created by sonnycandra - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/eye-password)
  Screenshot icons created by Iamkikirizky - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/screenshot)
  Download icons created by Pixel perfect - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/download)
  Settings icons created by dmitri13 - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/settings)
  Saturation icons created by sonnycandra - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/saturation)
  Contrast icons created by Smartline - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/contrast)
  Bright icons created by heisenberg_jr - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/bright)
  Clear icons created by LAFS - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/clear)
  Save icons created by Yogi Aprelliyanto - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/save)

  Take control of your media with Heero, a sleek, compact side panel designed to enhance your viewing experience across the web, enhancing images and videos in HTML5 players, including YouTube.
  ‎‎ 
  ‎‎ 
  🎨 Real-Time Enhancement
  Fine-tune videos and images with brightness, contrast, saturation and sharpness adjustments.
  ‎‎ 
  ‎‎ 
  🔍 Precision Viewing Tools
  Magnifier: Zoom into specific details without losing context.
  Rotation Control: Instantly fix awkwardly filmed content with a dedicated slider.
  Playback speed: from frame-to-frame to 16x faster playback.
  ‎‎ 
  ‎‎ 
  🔊 Volume Booster
  Push your audio beyond the limit with a built-in gain controller for improved listening.
  ‎‎ 
  ‎‎ 
  ⚡ YouTube Supercharged
  Shorts: Watch Shorts in the standard, fully-featured video player.
  High-quality: Heero automatically sets videos to the maximum available quality for you.
  YouTube UI: Toggle the native UI off completely.
  HQ Thumbnails: Instantly open the high-resolution thumbnail of the video you're currently watching.
  ‎‎ 
  ‎‎ 
  🛠️ Useful Tools
  Presets: Allows you to save your favorite enhancements and access them easily later.
  Screenshots: Take source quality screenshots in one click.
  Arrow Navigation Everywhere: Lets you use your keyboard arrows to skip or go back 5 seconds even in players without native support.
  Whiteboard: Draw directly over the screen to highlight or annotate content in real-time.
  Force Cinema Mode: Strip away distractions for a focused, immersive viewing experience.
  Video Downloader: Save your favorite videos from supported websites, now improved (YouTube not supported).
  Video Recorder: When download is not supported, allows you to seamlessly record videos in source-quality.
  ‎‎ 
  ‎‎ 
  ⚙️ Tailored to Your Workflow
  Customise how Heero behaves: set the panel to open automatically, restrict it to YouTube, or use Manual Mode to activate the extension only when specifically requested.
  ‎ 
  ‎ 
  ‎ 
  ‎ 
  Have you seen how nice the icons in Heero are? They were designed by many awesome people, and shared for free at Flaticon.com. To comply with Chrome Web Store's requests, we have moved attribution links to our page: https://heero.pages.dev/attributions

• Apr 29, 2026
  short_description

  Customise videos real-time with Heero, a lightweight and intuitive tool that gives you more control over YouTube and HTML5 videos.

  Customise in real-time with Heero, a lightweight and intuitive tool that gives you more control over YouTube and HTML5 videos.

• Apr 29, 2026
  name

  Heero Video Enhancer

  Heero Video & Image Enhancer

• Apr 29, 2026
  permissions

  storage

  storage, contextMenus

• Apr 22, 2026
  description

  Take control of your media with Heero, a sleek, compact side panel designed to enhance your viewing experience across YouTube and all HTML5 video players.
  
  🎨 Real-Time Visual Control
  Fine-tune your videos with brightness, contrast, and saturation adjustments, or use the rotate slider to fix awkwardly filmed content without ever leaving the page.
  
  ⚡ YouTube Supercharged
  Watch YouTube Shorts on the standard, fully-featured video player, while we ensure you are always watching in the highest resolution available.
  
  Toggle YouTube's native UI off completely, and if you need, instantly open the high-resolution thumbnail of the current video.
  
  🛠️ Essential Viewing Tools
  Heero equips you with precise playback speed adjustments, one-click screenshots, and a simple video downloader for supported websites.
  
  ⚙️ Tailored to Your Workflow
  Customise how Heero behaves: set the panel to open automatically, restrict the extension to run only on YouTube, or use manual injection mode so it only activates exactly when you need it.
  
  🔜 Expected in Coming Updates:
  
  +Keyboard shortcuts for ease of access;
  +Translations and custom themes;
  +More supported websites for video downloading;
  
  
  Note: Heero's downloader does not support YouTube
  
  
  
  
  Attibutions: Heero's icons were designed by many awesome people, and shared for free at Flaticon.com. You can check them out with the links below:
  
  Play video icons created by Prosymbols Premium - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/play-video)
  Thumbnail icons created by Icon mania - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/thumbnail)
  Slowly icons created by Freepik - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/slowly)
  Rotate icons created by Pixel perfect - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/rotate)
  Eye password icons created by sonnycandra - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/eye-password)
  Screenshot icons created by Iamkikirizky - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/screenshot)
  Download icons created by Pixel perfect - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/download)
  Settings icons created by dmitri13 - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/settings)
  Saturation icons created by sonnycandra - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/saturation)
  Contrast icons created by Smartline - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/contrast)
  Bright icons created by heisenberg_jr - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/bright)
  Clear icons created by LAFS - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/clear)

  Take control of your media with Heero, a sleek, compact side panel designed to enhance your viewing experience across YouTube and all HTML5 video players.
  
  🎨 Real-Time Visual Control
  Fine-tune your videos with brightness, contrast, and saturation adjustments, or use the rotate slider to fix awkwardly filmed content without ever leaving the page.
  
  ⚡ YouTube Supercharged
  Watch YouTube Shorts on the standard, fully-featured video player, while we ensure you are always watching in the highest resolution available.
  
  Toggle YouTube's native UI off completely, and if you need, instantly open the high-resolution thumbnail of the current video.
  
  🛠️ Essential Viewing Tools
  Heero equips you with precise playback speed adjustments, one-click screenshots, and a simple video downloader for supported websites.
  
  ⚙️ Tailored to Your Workflow
  Customise how Heero behaves: set the panel to open automatically, restrict the extension to run only on YouTube, or use manual injection mode so it only activates exactly when you need it.
  
  🔜 Expected in Coming Updates:
  
  +Keyboard shortcuts for ease of access;
  +Translations and custom themes;
  +More supported websites for video downloading;
  
  
  Note: Heero's downloader does not support YouTube
  
  
  
  
  Attibutions: Heero's icons were designed by many awesome people, and shared for free at Flaticon.com. You can check them out with the links below:
  
  Play video icons created by Prosymbols Premium - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/play-video)
  Thumbnail icons created by Icon mania - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/thumbnail)
  Slowly icons created by Freepik - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/slowly)
  Rotate icons created by Pixel perfect - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/rotate)
  Eye password icons created by sonnycandra - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/eye-password)
  Screenshot icons created by Iamkikirizky - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/screenshot)
  Download icons created by Pixel perfect - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/download)
  Settings icons created by dmitri13 - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/settings)
  Saturation icons created by sonnycandra - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/saturation)
  Contrast icons created by Smartline - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/contrast)
  Bright icons created by heisenberg_jr - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/bright)
  Clear icons created by LAFS - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/clear)
  Save icons created by Yogi Aprelliyanto - Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/save)

• Apr 22, 2026
  short_description

  Customise videos in real-time with Heero, a lightweight and intuitive tool that gives you control over YouTube and HTML5 players.

  Customise videos real-time with Heero, a lightweight and intuitive tool that gives you more control over YouTube and HTML5 videos.

• Apr 22, 2026
  name

  Heero

  Heero Video Enhancer

Permissions & access

Permissions

storagecontextMenus

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