Tidy Tube: YouTube Focus & Distraction Blocker

Block Shorts, hide sidebar recommendations, and clean up your YouTube feed. Distraction-free focus mode and journal.

Take back control of your attention on YouTube. Tidy Tube is a lightweight, privacy-focused browser extension designed to eliminate the addictive loops of the YouTube homepage and feed. By replacing algorithm-driven distractions with intentional recommendations and modular blockers, Tidy Tube helps you focus on what you actually came to watch. Whether you are studying, working, or just trying to avoid doomscrolling, Tidy Tube gives you the exact filters you need to customize your video browsing environment. 🛡️ Smart Distraction Blocker (Modular Shields): Toggle options to hide YouTube Shorts, sidebar recommendations, end screens, and auto-play panels. Hide comments sections to avoid mindless scrolling. Clean up left navigation links, notifications, and merchant/merch shelves. Grayscale and thumbnail blur modes for maximum focus. 🎯 Custom Recommendation Engine: Clean up your YouTube homepage. Replace the standard addicting grid with targeted recommendations based on your selected categories. Enter manual YouTube URLs to curate exactly what you see. Save your newly optimized recommendations directly to a YouTube playlist in one click. 📓 Feed Journal & Reversion History: Keep track of your daily focus score with our integrated Biosphere Dial. Revert your YouTube feed back to any previous day's custom layout directly from your journal log history. 💻 Advanced Custom Blocklists: Define keyword and channel blocklists to completely filter out clickbait, spoilers, or unwanted creators from your experience. 🔒 Privacy & Permissions We believe in complete transparency: No browsing history is collected or sold. Local Storage: Used solely to save your local configuration settings, blocklists, and journal entries. Identity: Used only to request secure OAuth access to save selected recommendations to your YouTube playlists. Analytics: Features zero-dependency, privacy-respecting Amplitude logging tracking only core product button clicks—no private video watch URLs or player events are ever captured