Flow Speed for YouTube

A minimalist, UI-driven video speed controller with smart music detection.

Flow Speed for YouTube: The Zero-Friction Speed Controller Stop digging through YouTube's gear menu just to change your playback speed. Flow Speed is a minimalist, highly-optimized extension that puts lightning-fast speed controls exactly where you need them—directly inside the YouTube player. Designed for power users and binge-watchers, Flow Speed eliminates the friction of adjusting playback rates with smart automation and a native, seamless aesthetic. 🔥 TOP FEATURES 🚀 Hover & Scroll Adjustments No clicking required. Just hover your mouse over the second speed multiplier(1x 1.1x<==) on the player control bar and use your scroll wheel to seamlessly dial your video speed up or down in crisp 0.1x increments. 🎵 Smart Music Auto-Detection Love watching tutorials and podcasts at 2x speed, but hate when music videos sound like chipmunks? Flow Speed intelligently detects when you are watching a music video and automatically snaps the playback back to a normal 1.0x speed. Toggle it on or off with a single click. Some creators label their videos as Music even when they are not... you'll have to disable Auto-Detect if it happens too much. 📱 Flawless Shorts Integration Unlike other extensions that break on vertical videos, Flow Speed natively injects its controls right into the YouTube Shorts interface. Your custom speed settings carry over perfectly. ⚡ Zero-Delay Enforcement Built with a hyper-optimized, ultra-lightweight engine, Flow Speed guarantees your default speed is locked in. Even when opening videos in new tabs, Flow Speed defeats YouTube's native resets to ensure your video starts at your exact preferred speed on the very first frame. 🎨 A Native, Minimalist Aesthetic No ugly floating pop-ups, clunky menus, or injected code that breaks the site. Flow Speed blends perfectly with YouTube's native design, utilizing matching icons, clean typography, and standard active-blue highlighting so you always know exactly what speed is running. Take total control of your watch time. Install Flow Speed and get back into your flow. 🚀 WHAT'S NEW IN v1.0.1: Complete overhaul of the Music Detection engine! Flow Speed now accurately detects music on left-clicks, previous version only worked on New Tab clicks). Optimized code to run even lighter in the background. ⭐ UPDATE v1.0.2: My workflow has always been to open videos in new tab. Testers discovered that regular clicking breaks it. re-engineered so now it works whether you open the video in a new tab or same tab. Better Detection: Music detection now works perfectly when clicking videos from the sidebar. Shorts Fix: YouTube Shorts are now fully supported without opening them in new tab and will correctly apply your custom speed. Under-the-Hood Polish: Rewrote the speed-enforcement engine to be faster, lighter, and much more reliable. ⭐ WHAT'S NEW IN v1.1: Real-World Time Display: Ever wonder how long a 40-minute video actually takes at 1.8x speed? Flow Speed now adds a sleek blue timer next to the default clock, showing your exact real-world time spent and time remaining based on your current multiplier! (Hides automatically at 1.0x).