YouTube Moments

Find timestamped YouTube comments, replay them alongside playback, and insert timestamps into your comment drafts.

YouTube Moments adds timestamp tools to ordinary desktop YouTube watch pages. Timestamped comments appear as you scroll, read from YouTube's own comment section with no extra requests. Loading comments then reaches the rest of the video. Sort by top comments or newest first, choose a faster top-level scan or include replies, pause long scans, resume them on the current page, search collected comments and authors, and seek by selecting a timestamp. A configurable limit stops each scan after a set number of comments, 2000 by default, so a video with millions of comments does not run away. The load button names that number, so you always know how much a press will fetch, and offers the next batch when it stops. Set the limit to 0 to remove it. A separate amount can load automatically when a video opens, off unless you set it, so a video is searchable without pressing anything. Replay timestamped comments beside the video as playback reaches each moment. One range control sets when a comment is on screen around its timestamp, so it can be read before the part it is about plays. Each comment shows how far its moment is from now, such as in 3s or 12s ago. Put the overlay in a corner or down either side, as separate boxes or one panel with sharp or soft edges, and check its opacity against a dark, bright or busy sample picture. The overlay switch is in the side panel and on the options page, and the overlay is off until you turn it on. The overlay works inside the fullscreen player and passes normal clicks through to the video. Point at a message and it stays, in full, until you look away. Insert the current playback time into a new-comment, reply, or edit draft. Move buttons nudge a timestamp by a second or five without scrubbing the video. They correct the timestamp your caret is in, so one already written can be fixed in place, and otherwise move the pending one. Every timestamp in the draft gets its own colour, spread evenly around the colour wheel, and the buttons take the colour of the one they will change. A quote button copies the caption line the player is showing, stamped with when that line began, reading text already on the page rather than requesting anything. The extras are off until you turn them on, so the control starts as one button. The control sits on the editor row or above it, whichever suits you. Choose how timestamps are written with two choices, each shown with an example: hours only when needed, always, or never so minutes run past sixty, and with or without a leading zero. The extension changes only the draft and never posts a comment. Every interface location can be enabled independently, and a right-click on any of them opens its own settings. The Moments button beside YouTube's dislike control opens and closes the side panel, and the video overlay has its own off switch. Extension options provide a recovery action if interface locations are hidden. Privacy: there is no analytics, advertising, developer-operated server, or third-party data sale. Comment requests go only to YouTube through the current browser session. Fetched comments stay in page memory, and your preferences are the only thing kept in local extension storage. YouTube Moments supports ordinary desktop /watch pages. Shorts, embedded players, live-stream timestamp semantics, and cross-device synchronization are not supported. YouTube Moments is an independent extension and is not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google.