YT re:Watch

Private local YouTube history, watch progress, channel subscriptions, analytics, and an in-browser feed. No account required.

Keep your YouTube viewing progress in your browser, independent from whichever Google account is active — or use YT re:Watch while logged out. YT re:Watch records meaningful playback locally so you can find watched videos, see progress, and resume unfinished videos. It also provides a complete local browsing companion built around channels you choose to follow in re:Watch. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Keep an account-independent history of regular videos and Shorts. • Resume videos from locally saved playback positions. • See viewed indicators, progress, and available video durations. • Follow channels locally without changing your YouTube subscriptions. • Browse a locally arranged Home feed and chronological Subscriptions inventory. • Save videos to a local Watch Later list. • Create and manage extension-owned local playlists. • Search saved history and cached feed records without remote YouTube search. • Review channels ignored by a subscription import and restore or forget them. • Explore local watch-time, completion, activity, and channel analytics. • Export and restore supported profile data with JSON backups. • Customize theme, overlay text, color, size, retention, and feed behavior. OPTIONAL AI-LABEL HANDLING YT re:Watch can optionally handle videos that YouTube itself labels as made with AI. Choose whether to show a badge, dim those videos, or hide them in re:Watch. This feature is Off by default. It uses YouTube’s own disclosure, not general AI detection: an unmarked video is not confirmed non-AI. HOW THE LOCAL FEED WORKS re:Watch retrieves public upload feeds for channels you follow locally. Home arranges cached uploads using local viewing and feedback signals. Subscriptions shows the cached inventory chronologically, using stable 50-video pages. Reload videos scans eligible followed channels for new uploads. Refresh redraws the current local data without starting a scan. Show opens the full chronological subscription inventory. PRIVACY AND ACCOUNT BOUNDARIES History, progress, local subscriptions, feed state, analytics, settings, Watch Later items, and local playlists are stored in the current browser profile. YT re:Watch does not operate an account system or cloud-sync service. It does not use OAuth, perform remote YouTube search, or change subscriptions, playlists, or history in your YouTube account. Direct public RSS and channel-metadata requests omit browser credentials. Thumbnails and channel artwork may load from YouTube-owned image hosts. YT re:Watch is not an anonymity tool: YouTube, your browser, and your network can still observe normal browsing activity. Use Backup and Restore to move supported data manually between browser profiles or devices. There is no automatic cross-device synchronization. Backup files can reveal viewing habits and should be kept private. Available in English, Bulgarian, German, Spanish, and French.