YouTube Ledger

Understand your YouTube viewing with local history, channel groups, notes and recommendation controls.

YouTube Ledger helps you understand how you spend time on YouTube and organize the channels you want to follow. YOUR VIEWING, WITH CONTEXT See daily and weekly totals, with foreground playback, background audio and browsing shown separately. Review sessions, add purpose labels and keep notes about what you watched. Export a review prompt when you want to reflect on your viewing; Ledger does not connect to an AI service. CHANNELS YOU CHOOSE Organize creators into groups and browse their cached uploads. Enable optional YouTube lookups to check for new videos and load thumbnails. Track started and watched videos, or import seen-video evidence from a YouTube history export. Hide recommendations by default and reveal them when you choose. FOUR THEMES Choose Retrowave, Frutiger Aero, Light green or Dark green. Animations can be switched off, and supported effects respect reduced-motion preferences. LOCAL RECORDS AND BACKUPS History and notes are encrypted in your browser profile. During setup, choose a passphrase and save a recovery key. You can unlock after each browser restart or choose “Open automatically in this browser.” Automatic access saves an unlocking key in the browser profile, so anyone who can use or copy that profile may be able to open Ledger. Full profile backups still need their original passphrase or recovery key. If you use passphrase-only access, new opted-in viewing can still be recorded in encrypted form while locked. Unlock to review it and use saved groups and watch status. YOU CHOOSE WHAT CONNECTS No Ledger account, subscription, developer cloud service or analytics is included. Recording starts only after you choose it during setup. Optional lookups and images send individual video/channel identifiers and requests directly to YouTube or Google; your notes and complete history database are not uploaded. Optional Watch Later cleanup requires separate consent and confirmation before removing selected videos from your YouTube list. Individual day, group and review exports are readable files you choose to create and share. Only full profile backups are encrypted. Existing Firefox releases cannot open encrypted Chrome backups. This release does not include cross-browser sync or require a companion app. Ledger is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google. YouTube feeds and page layouts can change, so cached uploads may be incomplete or temporarily out of date. SCREENSHOT GUIDE 1. Retrowave overview: see foreground viewing, background audio and browsing at a glance. 2. Frutiger Aero overview: explore your viewing patterns in a brighter theme. 3. Light green history: review sessions and add purpose labels. 4. Dark green settings: find appearance, YouTube controls, access and backup options in four categories. 5. Encrypted Ledger: choose automatic browser access or passphrase-only access. Screenshots use example activity, not a real person's viewing history.