App: Improved Tube
Developer: Tien Do Xuan
Genres: Entertainment

Set your YouTube video player, category filter-rules, Themes, Layout today & enjoy that for years to come!
With our YouTube extension you have  80+  useful, unique features.
To make your video experience & content discovery a whole lot better & save you a lot of clicks & time.
 • Open-source & non-profit since 2012! - 500 000 users in Chrome. Lets go Safari!
 • lightweight & elegant.  • Applies many settings without reload (unlike other Youtube-Extensions)

 • Offline/privacy. • Embedded youTube & all sites (Facebook, mobile m.youtube, Netflix, Twitch, Vimeo)




Press Reviews:  
 •  We are now  'Recommended by FireFox'! (Only 109 extensions in total)

 • 'Enhances YouTube in meaningful ways' (https://www.gHacks.net/2021/03/26/improved-youtube-enhances-youtube-in-meaningful-ways )
 • 'Might be the best YouTube Extension Ever' https:LifeHacker.com/this-might-be-the-only-youtube-browser-extension-youll-1846575110)



85+ features for YT!    (some can only be found here, we pioneered)
 • Auto-Pause Tabs (+ 'Auto-Play: Off')
 • Shortcuts: Set any Shortcuts / Hotkeys / mouse actions 
 • set YouTube language (virtual travel)
 • Analyse your activity([Subscriptions, Categories]
 • Video Description: Expand always  
 • Transcript always
 • adblocker  (adblock/adskip, or white-list ads your channel subscriptions)


 • Expand videos to your full window • Resize(Youtube player Size) • Auto-fullscreen  

 • Themes: 'Black, Plain, Desert, Dawn, Sunset, Night
 • Dark mode Schedule (also Black theme for oLed) • Subtitles captions Layout

 • hide distraction, declutter attention, teaching-screenshare-presentation 
 • Hide Related YouTube Videos, Comments • Header • Annotations  
 • Hide, fold, collapse details, live chat, etc. 
 • Disable/Overwrite YouTube's Shortcuts • Hide anything

 • Watch video frame by frame.
 • Reverse Playlist, Shuffle Playlist 
 • Block Videos [Channels, Tags, Category]
 • Screenshot (download print save a video Frame)  
 • Video Player & Playback Features:
 ••• Extra Player Buttons (optional):  • Loop / Repeat  • Rotate Video

 • Fixed Volume or  Loudness normalization  
  & • Mixer &  • Speedwatching (Fixed Default Playback Speed) 

 • Window Player • Custom Mini-Player
 • Pip Picture in Picture 
 • Quality to match your Display or bandwidth  1080p 4k 8k 720p 480p avoiding AV1, 60fbs & HDR. 
 • H264 codec / VP8 VP9  to speed up & save CPU electricity. (more efficient encoding for most GPUs)
 • Mimic retro classic YouTube views
 • 'Up Next': Off (Reset YouTube's 'Autoplay' after every video ) 
 • Display dim, Night mode, Blue-light filter (Preserve sleep. Relax eyes)
 • Toggle Anyhing: YouTube Player Controls, YouTube language,Youtube's 'Scroll for details'

 Official Account:  https://github.com/code-for-charity/ImprovedTube-for-Youtube  / Twitter: @ImprovedTube  
 ••• 98 Volunteers ••• translated to 39+ languages 
• • • Found a bug ...? • • • • • •
If you notice any bug, require help, or wish a new feature, 
please post on Github. Please don't complain downvote easily
We work hard to make your experience a 5/5 Stars experience.
https://github.com/code-for-charity/ImprovedTube-for-Youtube/issues
(also: ideas@improvedtube.com)
 
Not affiliated with YouTube.
Independently developed.
 
We'd like to team with Developers of YouTube-Extensions (please join us) 
Compatiblility: Mostly.  You simply use anything (Return Dislikes, sponsorblock, extra  adblocker / adskipper)  
You don't need common features (some even just copied our code):   (& YouTube Extensions usually dont need 'browser history' permission
('automatic 4K' 'auto hd' 'floating' 'cinema theater mode' 'Youtube adblocker' 'magic actions for YouTube Enhancer' 'turn off the lights' 'looper', 'repeater', 'speed controller', 'window expander')

Release notes:
Bug fixing and performance improvement