Tools for YouTube™
Customize YouTube playback, appearance, and player controls
Tools for YouTube™ helps you customize how YouTube looks and plays. Adjust playback speed, quality, volume, themes, and player layout - all from a dedicated options page and an optional side panel while you browse YouTube.
Tools for YouTube™ is an independent third-party extension and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google LLC. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC.
Highlights
Key features
Everything you can customize on YouTube - from playback speed to themes and layout.
- Default playback speed (0.07×–16×) with mouse wheel and keyboard shortcuts
- Automatic quality selection for videos, playlists, and embeds
- Volume booster with 10-band equalizer and presets
- Loop mode, reverse playlist, and screenshot capture
- Video filters: brightness, contrast, saturation, blur, rotation, and more
- Optional MP4/H.264 and standard frame-rate format preferences
- Block or fine-tune autoplay
- Pause when switching tabs
- Stop videos instead of pausing
- Ignore autoplay rules for playlists and pop-up player
- Wide player and theater mode options
- Mini player while scrolling
- Pop-up player for multitasking
- Custom control bar with configurable buttons
- Cinema mode to dim the page around the video
- Progress bar customization
- Enhanced dark mode with 50+ color variants
- YouTube Deep Dark and custom color themes
- Hide comments, related videos, chat, cards, end screens, and Shorts
- Convert Shorts to regular watch pages
- Grid density controls for home, channel, and Shorts feeds
- 40+ assignable keyboard shortcuts
- Side panel for quick access on YouTube tabs
- Settings backup and restore (JSON export/import)
- Custom user script (runs only on YouTube when enabled)
- Interface available in 54 languages
- Install the extension and open any YouTube page.
- Click the toolbar icon to open the side panel, or right-click → Options for full settings.
- Toggle features on/off individually; changes apply to open YouTube tabs automatically.
youtube.com
Required to enhance the YouTube website - the extension's only purpose.
storage
Saves your preferences locally on your device; nothing is sent to our servers.
sidePanel
Shows quick controls when you click the extension icon on YouTube.