Aura View

Enhance YouTube viewing with video lighting, audio controls, picture-in-picture and automatic SponsorBlock skips.

Make YouTube more comfortable to watch with Aura View. VIDEO LIGHTING Extend the colors of your video into the page background. Adjust blur, brightness, saturation and smoothing to create your preferred atmosphere. Optional black-bar fill and fullscreen lighting are available for regular videos. AUDIO CONTROLS Adjust bass, midrange, treble and volume gain. Use the Bass and Voice presets or customize the sound yourself. PICTURE-IN-PICTURE Keep watching regular videos and supported Shorts in a floating window. In Shorts PiP, click the video to pause and use the mouse wheel to switch videos. VIEWING PREFERENCES • Show or hide recommendations and comments. • Use Video Only mode for fewer distractions. • Remember your preferred video quality and frame rate. • Save a video frame as a PNG snapshot. AUTOMATIC SPONSOR SKIPPING Skip published sponsor and self-promotion segments using community data from SponsorBlock. Unmarked segments cannot be detected automatically. FIVE INTERFACE LANGUAGES English, Russian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Korean. The interface follows YouTube’s light or dark appearance. PRIVACY Video lighting and audio processing happen locally in your browser. SponsorBlock requests send a short hash prefix derived from the current video ID. Aura View does not upload video frames or audio and does not include developer analytics. Aura View is free to use. Supporting development through Ko-fi is optional and does not unlock or restrict features. Compatibility may vary with YouTube updates, browser settings and media restrictions. Aura View is an independent extension and is not affiliated with YouTube or Google.