YouTube TimeWatcher

About

See where your YouTube time goes — by channel, by day, by hour.

  YouTube TimeWatcher is a quiet companion that tracks how much time you spend watching YouTube and shows it back to you in a panel that lives inside YouTube's own header. No account. No servers. No telemetry.

  WHAT YOU SEE
  • A pill in the YouTube masthead with today's watch time at a glance
  • A 7-day chart of total watch time
  • A breakdown by channel — see who's actually getting your hours
  • Shorts vs. longform split
  • Top videos per channel for any selected day
  • Surprising facts about your habits ("you watched 5 sessions today, longest was 47 minutes")

  DAILY LIMIT, NOT A WALL
  Set a soft daily limit and the pill quietly changes color as you approach it. No popups, no harsh blockers — just awareness.

  RIGHT WHERE YOU WATCH
  The panel adapts to YouTube's dark and light themes automatically and stays out of the way until you click the pill. Clicking the toolbar icon opens YouTube and pops the panel open — never more than one click away.

  WHO IT'S FOR
  • People who want to understand their YouTube habits without surrendering them to a tracker
  • People who want a soft cap on watching, not a harsh blocker
  • People who want background music separated from active watching
  • People who want all of the above with zero data leaving their device

  Privacy policy: https://youtubetimewatcher.com/privacy
  Website: https://youtubetimewatcher.com