Previews (For TTV & YT)

Live previews when hovering over streams on Twitch & YouTube | A bunch of quality of life improvements for TTV & YT

Previews (For TTV & YT) enhances your Twitch and YouTube browsing by displaying live video or image previews when hovering over streams. It brings quality of life improvements, including customizable preview windows with resizing and volume control, multi-stream and multi-chat capabilities, and a variety of enhanced player controls.

On Twitch, users can enjoy clip previews, auto channel points clicker, clip downloader, flashbang screen defender, prediction notifications and sniper, and seamless sidebar management with favorites and cross-platform YouTube channel integration. YouTube features include auto quality settings, playback speed controls, native and custom Picture-in-Picture modes, direct live stream access from the sidebar, and prevention of unwanted pauses.

Key enhancements such as auto-refresh on errors, keyboard shortcuts for stream navigation, screenshot and recording tools, chat customization (including incognito and clear chat), and advanced stream embeds greatly enrich the viewer experience. This extension is designed for stream watchers who want more control, convenience, and interactivity while navigating Twitch and YouTube live streams.

By:
https://previews-app.com
Users:
50,000+
Rating:
4.81
(1,334)
Version:
12.9 Last updated: 2025-05-15
Creation date:
2020-06-10
Risk:
High risk impact Very low risk likelihood
Permissions:
  • storage
  • scripting
Host permissions:
  • *://*.twitch.tv/*
  • *://*.youtube.com/*
  • *://previews-app.com/*
Size:
590.85K
Email:
Tw*****@gmail.com
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Chrome Web Store
Updated:
21 hours ago

Other platforms

Previews (For TTV & YT) (v12.9)
4,854+ 5.00 (41)

User reviews

Users appreciate the extension for its many useful features, ease of use, and the ability to manage favorites and automate tasks on Twitch and YouTube. However, common complaints include the paywalling of previously free features like the favorites sidebar, disruptive and frequent ads during previews even when the channel is ad-free, issues with muted audio and chat message visibility, and the extension being feature-heavy and sometimes unstable. Overall, while the extension enhances user experience, recent changes and some technical issues have led to mixed feedback.
Pros
  • Provides many functionalities for Twitch and YouTube users.
  • Easy to configure and use, with numerous features such as favorites and auto-click for point chests.
  • Useful for managing and previewing channels, including favorites separation.
  • Offers a variety of emotes and is free.
  • Improves the Twitch and YouTube experience with added options and customization.
Cons
  • The favorites sidebar feature has been paywalled, causing dissatisfaction among users.
  • Frequent ads or 'blank' ads pop up even when channels are not playing ads, disrupting the preview experience.
  • Audio in previews can be automatically muted or unavailable.
  • Causes chat messages to not appear sometimes in Twitch and YouTube chats.
  • Preview windows are large and clunky; the extension has too many extra features requiring user adjustments.
  • The extension occasionally crashes and may require refreshing the page.
Recent reviews
use to be good but now it gets detected by twitch or the streamer and the audio keeps getting automatically muted
by Split Soul, 2025-04-11

Incroyable, plein de fonctionnalités
by Jules Corbet, 2025-03-20

This would be good, if the so called ads didn't pop for every channel, WHEN THEY ARE NOT EVEN PLAYING AN AD, EVEN ON CHANNELS THAT DO NOT HAVE ADS.......that one thing makes this a horrible app....In response to your comment below, I have been IN channels in my favorites list, while there are no ads playing and hover over that same channel to preview it and it plays the "preparing your channel" blank ads. So if there are no ads playing in the channel, why does your program do it? What is happening when your program pulls the channel into a preview? Especially because Twitch does not play "blank" ads.....I can hover over a channel in the list and it'll play a "blank" ad and if I move it off and back on after a few seconds it does it again over and over until you let the whole ad run. I Tried it with a free week of twitch turbo for no ads and it does not do it. The issue is not the ads themselves it is the frequency in which they pop up in previews, it does not follow the same frequency as twitch ads themselves on channels that do run them, so why is it different for your app? Also blaming twitch and posting a twitch support link is an extremely poor response and for sure will not gain any kind of response to a "Third Party" extension complaint. Even if it is twitch (which I can believe) your extension acts as if I am not logged into twitch and haven't actually let any ads run its course and restarts all the timers each time I hover another channel. Honestly at the end of the day if twitch hadn't removed the categories video previews I wouldn't even need an app like this. I tried to give this another shot but honestly your app has more ads than twitch itself many, many more ads. Your previews even play ads when the channel itself isn't playing ads, so I am removing this app, it's useless when every single time I hover over a channel to preview it plays either a 15 sec ad or a 3 min add. It's easier to just to go to the channel. If this app would at least match the ad spacing that twitch actually uses on peoples channels it wouldn't be soooo annoying. You say it's twitches fault and to go complain to them when your app plays more ads than they do. No, no thank you.
by J Mar, 2025-03-17
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Previews (For TTV & YT) requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

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