Focus Mode for YouTube — Sidebar, Queue & Hide Shorts

Focus Mode hides Shorts & end screens. Sidebar with queue, notes & a daily watch budget — YouTube without the rabbit hole.

Keep YouTube useful, focused, and organized. Focus Mode puts recommendations, comments, live chat, and your saved queue beside the video in a sidebar with its own scrolling. Hide Shorts and end screens, mute channels, and save the videos you actually want to watch. WHAT'S NEW IN 5.6.1 • Redesigned sidebar with dark green and gold accents, clear tab icons, and a matching light theme. • Recommendations recover when YouTube replaces or moves its page components. • A free Live Chat tab keeps chat beside the player when the video provides it. • Improved scrolling on smaller windows and filters for already-loaded recommendations and comments. FREE FEATURES • Focus Mode, Shorts and end-screen controls, suggestion filters, and channel muting. • Suggested, Comments, Live Chat when available, and Saved tabs. • A queue of up to 10 videos, playback controls, and optional public queue sharing. • Three in-sidebar searches per day. • Try timestamped notes on one video before signing in. PREMIUM FEATURES • A searchable learning notebook: edit and tag timestamped notes, jump to the exact moment, and export Markdown. • Named learning projects, completion tracking, and saved playback position. • A larger local queue, drag-to-reorder, additional sidebar tabs, and unlimited in-sidebar searches. • Weekly focus schedules, separate study and leisure budgets, watch-time statistics, optional budget pauses with an override, and stop-after-video sessions. • Optional account-based cloud sync for saved videos, notes, and projects across supported desktop browsers. Premium costs $1/month, $8.99/year, or $24.99 lifetime. Start a 7-day trial inside the extension with Google sign-in and no payment card. Your existing notes remain readable and exportable after Premium ends. Cloud sync capacity: 500 saved videos, notes on 200 videos (up to 500 notes per video), 100 projects, 20,000 characters per note, and 900 KB total. Content over the cloud limit stays on your device with a visible error. GET STARTED Install, refresh a YouTube watch page, and use the sidebar. Alt+S shows or hides it, Alt+A saves a video, and Alt+Q opens Search. Resize the sidebar by dragging its edge. PRIVACY No data selling or injected ads. Google sign-in connects your membership; Stripe processes payments. Optional cloud sync sends your saved content to our Firebase backend. Queue sharing publishes only the queue you choose to share. Optional usage reporting is off by default and excludes note content, video titles, browsing URLs, and Google account details. Privacy and support: https://ytextension83.web.app/privacy.html An independent extension, not affiliated with YouTube or Google.