Tubekeep — sort your YouTube Watch Later, file your subscriptions

Search it all, sort by length, date added or channel, clear it in batches. Playlists, subscriptions and dead videos too. All local.

🎬 Tubekeep — a Watch Later, a playlist shelf and a subscription list you can actually work through YouTube's Watch Later only goes one way: videos go in, and the only way out is one three-dot menu at a time. There is no sort by length, no multi-select, and at 5,000 videos the list silently stops accepting new ones. Tubekeep reads your queue, every playlist and every subscription into your browser and makes the queue workable — sorted by how long a video is, how long it has sat there or whose it is; narrowed to one pile; then removed or moved in a batch that runs at the pace YouTube accepts and undoes in one click. Your playlists and the channels you subscribe to come in beside it and get the same treatment: playlists become a cabinet you move things between, and a few hundred subscriptions become a folder tree you file, search and unsubscribe from in batches. Nothing is uploaded: the index lives in your browser, and it works inside the YouTube tab you are already signed in to. 📥 IT READS YOUR LISTS IN, THEN KEEPS UP • Your queue, every playlist, your liked videos and every channel you subscribe to, walked into the browser in the background from your own session — no Google sign-in to grant, no API key • A long read survives the panel closing, the tab closing and the browser restarting, and picks up where it stopped; what has been read is usable immediately • Add a video, save one to a playlist or unsubscribe while you are on the site and the library follows within seconds — no re-read • A queue that has hit the 5,000-video ceiling reads in whole, and clearing it here is what makes room in it again 🧹 THEN YOU SORT IT INTO PILES, AND ACT ON A PILE • Sort by length, by date added or by channel instead of the order it went in • Narrow the grid before you touch anything: already watched, in progress, under twenty minutes, over twenty, gone private or deleted, saved in another list, saved in none — and each button says how many it would leave • Select by click, shift-range or a box dragged across the grid, or take everything the filter left in one press • Remove the lot, or move or copy it into a playlist — including one you create without leaving the batch • Every card wears the red watched bar from your own account, so "have I seen this?" is answered before the first click ▶️ WATCH IT HERE, AND DECIDE • Clicking a card plays it in a panel over the grid instead of in another tab — four sizes, from a corner to the whole screen — with the button that takes it out of the list right under the video • Play through walks the pile the filter left, in the order on screen, and turns that button into remove-and-continue: you come out the other side with a shorter list, not just an evening spent • The keyboard runs the loop with the keys your hands already know — k, j, l, m — plus arrows to walk the cards, x to pick one, Backspace to take it out 🔍 SEARCH EVERY LIST AND EVERY CHANNEL AT ONCE • ⌘K opens one box over the whole library: lists, folders, channels and videos in one column, and every video names the lists it sits in — the one answer the site never gives, because it renders one list at a time • A video saved in more than one list wears the count on its tile; press it to see which lists, and drop it from any one of them or keep only one • A word typed into the filter row narrows any list to what you can select from, so a pile you found is a pile you can act on 🗂 PLAYLISTS AS A FILING CABINET • Move or copy a batch between playlists; create, rename, change who can see a list, delete it, or drop a saved one out of your library • The destination can be a list that does not exist yet — name it inside the batch and it is created before the first move • Every list you own and every list you saved from someone else sit in the same index, and each video names the ones it is in 📺 YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS, FILED INTO A TREE YOU OWN • Every channel you subscribe to is read in with its name, @handle, avatar and self-description, and found by typing either the name or the @handle • Group a few hundred of them into folders you name and nest — click, shift-range or lasso a batch of channels and file the lot in one pass • Unsubscribe from a batch the same way: selected, confirmed, carried out at the pace YouTube accepts, and put back in one click like any other batch • Open any channel as its hundred newest videos, read live without your account, and save the keepers straight into a list • Folders live in the extension, not on YouTube — making one changes nothing about your account, deleting one never unsubscribes from anything, and a channel you drop keeps its place in the tree if you ever subscribe again • The side panel puts the same tree beside the page you are on, so filing a channel or dropping one does not mean leaving the video 🕳 THE VIDEOS THAT WENT PRIVATE OR DELETED A playlist of 400 that plays 380 tells you only that some are hidden, never which. YouTube's own playlist menu has the way back in, and that is what Tubekeep asks for, list by list: the hidden rows come back with their titles, channels and lengths, grouped by which of your lists each one is in, marked deleted, private or blocked, and cleared in a batch — never by checking whether a thumbnail loads, which is the usual technique and reports every video as dead the moment an image host is blocked. A deleted video comes back as a placeholder with no name, and the pane says which of them those are instead of implying it found more than it did. For the rows that kept a name, one press searches for another copy. ↩️ BATCHES IT CARRIES OUT, UNDOES, AND TELLS YOU ABOUT • Every batch is one you selected and confirmed; nothing runs on a schedule and nothing is tidied up for you in the background • Paced, with a human pause between requests — if the site starts refusing, the run stops and says so, and what has not been sent is still queued when you come back • The library changes only after each write is confirmed, so a batch that stops halfway leaves an account and an index that agree with each other • Undo puts the whole batch back — as another paced batch, because that is what putting it back is • Once per batch, and within 30 days: after that the batch has been forgotten. A batch that cleared deleted or private videos has no Undo, because adding one of those back is a write that cannot succeed 📌 A SIDE PANEL BESIDE THE PAGE Open the library next to the video you are on: step through any list, narrow it with the same buttons and the same counts the workbench uses, and open what you pick in the tab you are already in. The other tab is your folder tree with the channels sitting in it — a working tree, where you can make a folder, file a channel or unsubscribe without leaving the page. 🤖 AI FILING FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS, IF YOU WANT IT Let it build that same folder tree out of your own channel names and file them in — first into topics, then grouping the topics under parent folders, so a few hundred channels come out as a tree instead of a flat row of forty. It marks what it made, so undoing the run leaves the folders you built by hand alone. It is the one feature here that runs on a server instead of in your browser — so it is the only one that needs a Deft Foundry account, and the only one that sends anything of yours anywhere: channel names, @handles, a short description and a few titles you saved from each channel, plus the names of folders you already have. No ids of any kind, so the answer comes back by position and the mapping stays in your browser. Folder names come out in English, 中文, Español, Português, 日本語 or Deutsch, whichever your library is in. The first 200 are free, for the life of the account — and that counts everything a run asks about, the grouping pass included, so a list comfortably under 200 gets both passes on it. 🔒 PRIVACY, IN PLAIN TERMS • The index lives in your browser's own storage. Sorting, searching, filing, clearing dead links, managing lists and backing up never leave it • Your own lists are read and changed inside your own signed-in YouTube tab, so YouTube sees those requests the way it sees you using the site; nothing of yours is sent that it did not already have • Opening a channel to see its videos is asked for anonymously — no cookies, no sign-in — so it is the one request here that cannot be attached to you • Pressing play loads YouTube's own embedded player through a small page on deftfoundry.com; nothing else about your library crosses, and nothing crosses until you press play • No analytics of any kind in the extension. No click, keystroke or scroll tracking • Full policy: https://deftfoundry.com/x/tubekeep/privacy 💾 IT IS YOURS TO MOVE Back the whole index up — lists, memberships, folders and all — to one JSON file and import it on another machine or after a reinstall. There is no cloud copy and no sync: nothing of yours is on our servers, so nothing of yours is ours to lose. Removing the extension removes the index with it; your actual lists are untouched, because they were never here. 🚫 WHAT IT IS NOT It is not a downloader — it indexes what you saved and never touches the media. It does not reorder your lists on YouTube: every sort here is on the local index, and the two ways to change the real order are both left alone on purpose — YouTube's own sort menu is a write, and a reorder that stops halfway cannot be cleanly undone. Your folders live here, not inside YouTube, which has no notion of them. And it is a desktop Chrome extension: the index lives in one browser profile, and changes made on your phone show up when you refresh the library. 💳 FREE AND PAID Free, and with no account at all: reading your lists, live sync, sorting and filtering, search, the player, dead-link clearing, duplicates, subscription folders, batch unsubscribing, list management, the side panel, backup — everything on this page except the AI filing, and everything you do one video or one channel at a time, without limit. Batches are free for the first 500 items, counted for the life of the install; the AI filing is free for the first 200, which covers both of its passes. Pro ($19 once — no subscription) lifts those two ceilings and adds no feature: batches without a ceiling, and AI filing past the first 200 — grouping pass included — within a fair-use 20,000 a month. 14-day refund. ✨ The whole story, in more detail: https://deftfoundry.com/x/tubekeep