TubePilot is a powerful yet lightweight YouTube companion with one simple goal: Help you stay focused on YouTube by reducing distractions, customizing playback, and giving you clean, practical controls — without turning YouTube into something complicated. YouTube is designed to keep you watching. End screens, Shorts loops, overlays, and endless feeds can pull you away from what you actually came for. TubePilot gives you back control — with a minimalist approach, clear settings, and features that are easy to understand. ✅ One purpose: improve focus and usability on YouTube 🧩 Minimal & practical: only features that support that goal 🔒 Privacy-first: no tracking, no analytics, no data selling Key Features (at a glance)

⚡ Playback Controls — custom speed, auto-loop, remember speed across videos, auto-play control
🎯 Focus Mode — hide all distractions with one click, schedule focus hours, keyboard shortcut
🧹 Declutter Tools — hide end screens, info cards, related videos, banners, comments, and more
🎬 Shorts Controls — auto-advance to next Short, convert Shorts to classic player, hide Shorts from feeds
🎨 Appearance — dark mode variants, cinematic mode, video filters (brightness, contrast, saturation)
👎 Dislike Visibility — restore dislike counts using the public Return YouTube Dislike API
⏸️ Smart Pausing — auto-pause on tab switch, auto-pause Shorts on scroll

What TubePilot Helps You Do ⚡ Full Playback Control Fine-tune your viewing experience with precise playback settings.

Set a default playback speed (0.25× to 3×)
Remember speed across videos (or reset per video)
Auto-loop videos for music, lectures, or background listening
Block auto-play to prevent unwanted video starts
Auto-pause when you switch tabs

🎯 Focus Mode Instantly remove all distractions with a single toggle — or schedule it.

Hides recommendations, comments, sidebars, end screens, cards, and chat
Expands the video player to full width
Optional schedule (set active hours)
Keyboard shortcut for quick toggle

🧹 Declutter the YouTube Interface Hide the elements that most often interrupt attention — on your terms. You can remove or reduce:

End screens & info cards
Related videos & recommendations
Promotional banners & overlays
Comments & live chat
Shorts thumbnails in feeds
Subscribe overlays & join buttons
Autoplay toggle

Choose between full hide or minimize mode (shrink to 15% opacity). 🎬 Shorts Controls That Reduce Interruptions Shorts can easily turn into an infinite loop. TubePilot gives you full control.

Auto-advance — automatically move to the next Short when the current one ends (instead of looping)
Convert to classic player — redirect Shorts to the standard watch page
Hide Shorts — remove Shorts from home feed, sidebar, or everywhere
Auto-pause on scroll — pause Shorts when you scroll past them

🎨 Appearance & Visual Customization Make YouTube look the way you want.

Dark mode — multiple variants (Soft Dark, Dark Gray, Dark Blue, Deep Black, OLED, Minimal Dark, High Contrast)
Cinematic mode — ambient glow effect around the video player
Video filters — adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, sepia, and blur
Custom colors — accent color, background, text, and link colors

👎 Optional: Restore Dislike Visibility TubePilot can optionally restore dislike counts using the public Return YouTube Dislike API. This helps you:

Evaluate videos faster
Avoid misleading or low-quality uploads
Make more informed clicks

Works on both regular videos and Shorts. Styled to match YouTube's native UI. Designed for Clarity (Not Feature Bloat) TubePilot is intentionally focused. It avoids adding dozens of complicated switches and instead concentrates on high-impact improvements that make YouTube feel more usable.

✨ Minimal, elegant popup interface
⚡ Lightweight — no performance impact
🧠 Easy-to-understand settings with clear labels
🔁 Works across YouTube navigation (SPA) without needing reloads
📌 Draggable, pinnable overlay — stays on screen while you browse
🌍 Available in 21 languages

Privacy & Data TubePilot does not:

collect personal data
track your browsing behavior
run analytics or profiling
sell or share data

It works locally in your browser. If you enable the optional dislikes feature, TubePilot may request dislike statistics from the Return YouTube Dislike API — and only for that purpose.

Latest version

Version 1.4.0

Older versions

Version 1.3.0

Version 1.2.0

Version 1.1.0

Version 1.0.0