# Improve Crunchyroll

> Enhance Crunchyroll: theater mode, skip intros/outros, mark as watched/not watched, fast forward/backward buttons, dark mode, ...

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/improve-crunchyroll](https://chrome-stats.com/d/improve-crunchyroll)

## Overview

- **ID:** `improve-crunchyroll`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Thomas Tavernier
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 5,636
- **Weekly downloads:** 121
- **Rating:** 4.33 / 5 (45 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-30
- **First published:** 2022-01-16
- **Size:** 98 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/improve-crunchyroll/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/improve-crunchyroll/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/improve-crunchyroll/privacy/)

## Description

Improve Crunchyroll is a feature-rich Chrome extension that enhances your anime streaming experience with theater mode, a larger video player, fullscreen options, and intuitive shortcuts to skip intros, recaps, and outros. Each feature is toggleable, giving you full control over your viewing experience.

It also adds watch status management, MyAnimeList/AniList integration, next/previous episode shortcuts, Picture-in-Picture, and keyboard shortcuts for playback speed. You can hide or blur UI elements, subtitles, banners, and even disable NumPad for a distraction-free environment. Settings can be backed up or reset at any time.

## Rankings

- #1,101 — Overall
- #168 — Appearance
- #2 — improve
- #44 — poll
- #53 — episode
- #137 — exist

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `static.crunchyroll.com`
- `beta.crunchyroll.com`
- `www.crunchyroll.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users broadly praise Improve Crunchyroll for its quality-of-life features and playback-speed enhancements, and its usefulness for anime watching. However, multiple reviews report UI glitches and unreliable shortcuts, speed configuration not being accurate or persisting between episodes, and Auto Skip not functioning. A recurring request is the return or proper functioning of mark-as-watched/unwatched features. Some users also request navigation improvements (e.g., previous-episode button) and subtitle display controls.

### Pros

- Quality-of-life playback enhancements (speed controls and related UX improvements) that streamline watching Crunchyroll.
- Especially valued for higher playback speeds when watching anime.
- Generally reliable and well-liked by many users (works well / works perfectly).

### Cons

- UI glitches and overlay/shortcut reliability issues disrupt viewing (shortcuts not working, UI glitched).
- Playback speed settings are buggy or do not persist between episodes (wrong values when configuring speeds, not saved across episodes).
- Auto Skip feature does not work as advertised (not functioning as expected).
- Missing or non-functional mark-as-watched/unwatched feature (series/episode management not available or not working).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/improve-crunchyroll)