QuietTube

Tracking since Apr 25, 2026.

Changelog

• May 2, 2026
  description

  QuietTube simplifies your YouTube experience by hiding shorts, recommended videos, comments, and distractions, allowing you to focus on the content you choose to watch.

  QuietTube helps you use YouTube without constantly getting pulled into Shorts, homepage feeds, recommendations, and other high-distraction UI.
  
  Use QuietTube to clean up the parts of YouTube that create low-intent scrolling:
  
  - Hide Shorts shelves and Shorts-heavy search blocks
  - Hide the homepage feed
  - Hide related videos on watch pages
  - Disable autoplay
  - Hide live chat
  - Hide thumbnails
  - Hide comments and descriptions
  - Hide playlist panels and playlist cards
  - Hide sidebar navigation, tags, and notifications
  - Hide search recommendation shelves
  - Hide end screens and video overlays
  
  QuietTube is built for people who want YouTube to feel quieter, simpler, and easier to use on purpose.
  
  Why users install it:
  
  - They want to hide YouTube Shorts
  - They want to hide suggested videos
  - They want to remove comments and homepage clutter
  - They want fewer attention traps while studying or working
  
  Technical notes:
  
  - Built on Manifest V3
  - Works with Chrome and Brave
  - Settings are stored with Chrome sync
  - No account required
  
  Privacy:
  
  QuietTube does not collect or transmit personal data. It stores extension preferences locally using Chrome sync.

• May 2, 2026
  short_description

  A distraction-free YouTube extension that hides feeds, Shorts, recommendations, playlists, comments, and other attention traps.

  Hide Shorts, comments, recommendations, and homepage distractions on YouTube for a cleaner, calmer viewing experience.

• May 2, 2026
  category

  productivity/workflow

  productivity/tools

Permissions & access

Permissions

storage

Host access

*://www.youtube.com/*, *://youtube.com/*

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