'Improve YouTube!' TEST (for YouTube)

YouTube, tidy & smart? Supercharge YouTube! Give it strong features, filter only the videos you want & exactly the look you like

As of June 2026, 'Improve YouTube!' TEST (for YouTube) has 20,000 users and a 4.02/5 rating from 218 reviews in the Entertainment category.

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218 reviews
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Version
4.2029
Manifest V3
90-day change · In the last 90 days this extension gained 10.0K users, 3 version updates.

History

3 snapshots

Tracking since Jun 1, 2026.

20.8K15.0K9.2KJun 1, 2026Jun 21, 2026
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DateUsersRatingReviewsVersion
Jun 1, 202610.0K4.022194.2026
Jun 10, 202610.0K4.022184.2027
Jun 21, 202610.0K4.022184.2028
Now20.0K4.022184.2029

Changelog

  • Jun 21, 2026
    name
    'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (for YouTube & Videos)
    'Improve YouTube!' TEST (for YouTube)
  • Jun 10, 2026
    name
    'Improve YouTube!' TEST (for YouTube)
    'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (for YouTube & Videos)

Permissions & access

Permissions
contextMenusstorage
Host access
https://www.youtube.com/*

Screenshots

'Improve YouTube!' TEST (for YouTube) screenshot 1'Improve YouTube!' TEST (for YouTube) screenshot 2

About

Improve Youtube layout and add useful features to Youtube, to enjoy Youtube customized for you from now on.     -  !!TESTING for: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube/bnomihfieiccainjcjblhegjgglakjdd  )
- Set up YouTube video player & YouTube theme, layout, style - once, today & enjoy that for years! With our YouTube-extension you have  85+  useful, unique features 🧰🔧. To make your experience on YouTube a whole lot better & save you a lot of clicks & time. 
✔️Open-source & free charity since 2012!
✔️Extra video playback features for: Embedded YouTube & the Internet (We're now also working on Facebook, mobile m.youtube, Netflix, Twitch, Vimeo)
✔️Applies settings more conveniently than any other Youtube Extension: Live with no⌛reload 
🎖️🏆 Press Reviews (2021):
"Might be the best YouTube Extension Ever" (https://LifeHacker.com/this-might-be-the-only-youtube-browser-extension-youll-1846575110)
"Enhances YouTube in meaningful ways" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐https://www.gHacks.net/2021/03/26/improved-youtube-enhances-youtube-in-meaningful-ways)

⋮⚙️⋮ Many features, some can only be found here(🦄we pioneered)
🎞️☕🎨 To List A Few:
➕ Youtube Video Description: Expand always ➕ Expand Youtube videos to your full window. ➕ adblocker you can adblock ➖ & white-list ads on your channel subscriptions
➕ Shortcut / Scroll to adjust Volume.➕ Resize YouTube videos ( Youtube player Size )➕ Youtube Screenshot (download print save a video Frame) ➕ Default/fixed Video Quality to match your Display 720p 1080p 4k 8k or bandwidth 480p 240p 144p ➕ avoid 60 frames vs 30 fps ➕ hide distraction declutter attention / teaching screenshare presentation ➕ Remove Related Videos ➕ Hide Youtube Comments ➕ Remove Header ➕ Hide Annotations ➕ Hide live chat ➕ reverse Youtube Playlist, Shuffle Playlist ➕ watch video frame by frame.

⏯️🔁🔀 Extra Player Buttons (optional): Loop Repeat ➕ Rotate Video ➕ Buttons ➕ Default audio volume Level 
➕ Default Playback Speed ➕ Pip Picture in Picture
➕⌘+⇧ Shortcuts: Customize Youtube Player Shortcuts / Hotkeys 🧩

ⓘ Official Accounts: 
• 🌱👪Community/Volunteers: 
https://github.com/Code4Charity/Youtube-Extension 
• Website: https://improvedtube.com • Twitter: @ImprovedTube

ImprovedTube is lightweight 🍃 (You can expect all normal YouTube functions to work as expected!) We also don't see you (🔒 privacy): It only needs permission to access youtube visuals & runs offline (Unlike many extensions out there.) We can't care about what video you watch, just that you have a better time. 

➕ Analyse your activity 📈, Block by Video (Channel tag category)
➕ Video Volume Mixer🎛️🔊🧪
➕ Player Auto-Play: Off
➕ "Up Next": Off (Reset Youtube's "Autoplay" after every video )➖ playlist Auto-Play: On
➕ Auto-pause ➕ Loudness normalization ➕ Youtube Subtitles captions transacript always on/off
➕ Dark mode ✓ Schedule better viewing at night time ✓ Dark theme and Black theme 
✓ Blue-light filter (Preserve sleep. Relax eyes) ✓ Display dim 
➕Toggle Youtube Player Controls ➕Overwrite Youtube Shortcuts & Hotkeys
➕Hide YT details ➕ set YT language ➕ ImprovedTube Search ➕Tweak YT's "Scroll for details"

🌎 translated to 24 languages
 
We♥ Youtube Extension Devs & tried many unique/friendly, notably cool, smart features 
• check https://improvedtube.com (what else is great?)( Compatiblity: you don't need common features (some copy our code)('adblock' 'youtube adblocker' 'dark theme for youtube' 'automatic 4K auto hd popout 'lights off' floating cinema mode, theater mode, looper replay repeater, player speed control 'video speed controller' window expander, magic actions, youtube enhancer - But you CAN just try what you need, i.e.
sponsor skip adblock, besides a YT Extension works with "access youtube.com" / You dont need to accept "alerts "change privacy settings "access all websites "browser history - could be optional opt-in)

⇒New:
➕ Mini Player scrolling 
➕ draggable ImprovedTube icon on youtub
✓ New Menu suits Touchscreen (2-d & little more space) ✓ Legacy List style
➕ Channel enable "featured content" (vs channel intro trailer)
➕ Mimic retro classic YT Theme Style Layout ➕ Thumbnail HD .gif : OFF
➕ H264 codec (h264ify to speed up Player / save CPU electricity. H.264 encoding is faster, efficient in GPUs designed before 2016 AV1 VP8 VP9 Flash)
➕ Pop-out Player ("always-on-top is possible through OS or an app OS) 

🔎Found a bug❓🐞🐛 - If you notice any issue, require help, or wish a new feature🌟🧚 please post on Github or contacting us. Or use "Support" next to "Reviews". Please don't complain in the Reviews immediately. We work hard 🏋️👩‍💻 to make your experience a 5/5 Stars experience.
[email protected] 📧
[email protected] 📧
⇒Status: Just Fixed: [x] Collapse YT comments [x] Channel Video counter 

We are not affiliated with YouTube or an official extension.
This extension is independently developed for use with Youtube since 2012©️

Technical

Version
4.2029
Manifest
V3
Size
1.06MiB
Min Chrome
88
Languages
57
Featured
No

Metadata

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Developer ID
u2e3e72f41023d3446c2b26fe6aa00e1a
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
Sep 26, 2017
Last Updated (Store)
Jun 12, 2026
Last Scraped
Jun 21, 2026
Website
improvedtube.com
Support URL

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