Playlist Wrangler

Organize any YouTube playlist. Search it, filter it, and split a huge Watch Later into clean playlists. All local, no sign-in.

Playlist Wrangler turns any YouTube playlist into something you can actually search, filter, and reshape. And it does the organizing for you. The moment you index a playlist, every video is automatically tagged into categories and topics. That means 34 topics, over 100 music genres, film and TV genres, formats, moods, and 39 languages, all detected for you. No manual tagging, no setup, and no paid tier. The automatic categorization is built into the free extension. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Search across every video by title, instantly, spanning every playlist you have indexed. • Stack filters. Topic, genre, mood, language, channel, length, age, views, likes, and captions. Each filter leads with the values still present in what you are looking at, so narrowing a big library never means scrolling past a hundred categories that cannot match. A video made by several channels is filed under all of them, so a collab is reachable from either artist. • Split one giant list into clean, separate playlists in a couple of clicks. Every bulk add, remove, or move has a one-tap undo. • Play any filtered slice in order as a temporary playlist, with autoplay. No playlist to build or clean up. • Save to any playlist without leaving the page. A small + button on any thumbnail, and under the video, reaches your WHOLE library through a search box, not a shortlist of preset targets, with your recent destinations at the top. A ✓ marks what you have already saved, and clicking it takes the video back out. • Quick Ask (beta). Summarize a video straight from its thumbnail, without playing it, using YouTube's own built-in Ask AI, so there is nothing extra to sign into. Editable modes cover ELI5, timestamps, key quotes, and "worth watching?". It only works on accounts YouTube has given its Ask feature. • See how a video landed before you open it. The like-to-view percentage sits inline in YouTube's own byline, right after the view count, and every row in the panel carries likes, views, that ratio, length, and age. • Sort and shuffle. Newest or oldest, longest or shortest, most liked, best likes-per-view, or a random shuffle. • Import from URL. Paste any mix of YouTube links to add them straight to a playlist. • Export any view to CSV, so your library is yours to keep. WHY IT IS DIFFERENT • Your library outlives YouTube's limits. Watch Later stops at 5,000 videos and quietly drops what does not fit. An indexed playlist is kept locally and exports to CSV, so a list you spent years building is yours whatever YouTube does to it next. • Free automatic categorization. No tagging by hand, and no paid tier that unlocks it. Index a playlist and it is already organized by topic, genre, mood, and language. • No API keys, no OAuth, no quotas. It reads the playlist from the page you are already on, using your own signed-in session. • Works everywhere you do. Private and unlisted playlists, Watch Later, and Liked videos are all included. It auto-scrolls past YouTube's roughly 100-video first page, so the whole list gets indexed, not just the top. • Every playlist picker opens instantly. Your playlist list is stored rather than re-fetched, so nothing waits on the network. A playlist you create through the extension appears everywhere at once, and a refresh that fails keeps your last good list instead of showing you an empty picker. • One home for every playlist. A side panel spans all the playlists you have indexed, with the same video across lists merged into one row so duplicates are obvious. It handles multiple signed-in Google accounts too, following whichever one your YouTube tab is on. • Go deeper when you want. An optional, throttled deep index visits each video to pull YouTube's own category, the uploader's keywords, and full stats, which sharpens the categories and filtering even further. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your index lives in your browser's local storage, on your machine. There is no account to create, and your playlists, tags, and metadata never leave your device. Two things can leave, both on your terms: anonymous, content-free usage counts, which you can switch off in settings, and — only if you choose to give them — an email address for release notes, or a message you send through the feedback form. The only changes it makes on YouTube are the playlist edits you ask for, like adding, removing, or moving videos. It never likes, subscribes, or comments. WORKS ON Any Chromium-based browser: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, and Opera, plus Firefox as a sidebar. It is a Manifest V3 extension. Arc is the one exception, because it does not support Chrome's side-panel API. Free and ad-free. Learn more at naxatar.com/products/playlist-wrangler.