TimeBack

Tracks your YouTube playback speed and the time you save. All data stays on this computer.

TimeBack shows how much time you save by watching YouTube faster than 1× by day, week and month. HOW IT WORKS Watch YouTube as usual. TimeBack notes the playback speed while a video plays with sound and turns it into time saved. At 2×, a 20-minute video takes 10 minutes: 10 minutes saved. Skipping ahead never counts as time saved, and muted playback, ads, Shorts, live streams and previews are never counted. WHAT YOU GET • Popup: what's playing now, time saved today and this week, your streak and your next milestone. • On-video label: speed, time saved on this video and the real time left, right above the player (with the controls, always, or off). • Dashboard: day, week and month reports, time saved per day, a 12-week or 12-month trend, time by speed, top videos and channels, with a table view for every chart. • YouTube videos embedded on other sites (blogs, course sites, wikis) count too, reported as "Other sites". SPEED CONTROLS • Keyboard: S slower, D faster, in 0.1× steps from 0.25× up to 4×. R switches between 1× and your last speed. You can turn the keys off. • Popup buttons for the video playing now. • Channel speeds: pin a speed to a channel, and its videos start at that speed. Other channels go back to your usual speed. STREAKS, MILESTONES AND AN OPTIONAL DAILY LIMIT • Streak: the days in a row on which you saved time. Days you don't watch are skipped, so it never pushes you to watch more. • Milestones at 1, 5, 10, 24, 50 and 100 hours saved, then every 100 hours. • Daily limit (off by default): choose 30 minutes, 1, 2 or 3 hours, or any time from 5 minutes to 12 hours of real watching time, and get a short notice on the video when you pass it. Playback never stops. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no analytics and no network requests. Nothing is sent to anyone, including the developer. • Your history stays in Chrome on your computer. Incognito windows are never recorded. • Export a JSON backup or CSV file any time, import a backup, or delete a date range, a video, a channel or everything. • Light and dark themes that follow your system. TimeBack is an independent extension and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by YouTube or Google.