PrevYou — YouTube Thumbnail Previewer

Preview your video thumbnail and title on YouTube home page or subscription feed.

PrevYou - Preview YouTube Video Thumbnails

PrevYou — YouTube Thumbnail Previewer is a utility tool innovatively designed for YouTubers, providing users the ability to preview their thumbnails and titles amidst other videos on the YouTube platform. Providing options such as randomized thumbnail placement and dark mode, it's an open-source extension that requires no login or credential submissions. Users can also benefit from the 'remember last submission' feature. Developed by Benjamin Code and designed by BastiUI, it aims to aid creators to optimize their thumbnails effectively.

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Extension stats

By: Benjamin Code

Users: 5,000+

Rating: 4.86

(43)

Version: 1.5 (Last updated: 2022-11-15)

Creation date: 2021-04-09

Risk impact: Very low risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
activeTab
scripting

Size: 66.44K

Email: b1*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 14,152 ▲ 129

Other rankings

#1004 in Social Networking ▲ 5 #85 in preview keyword 17 ▲ 4 #141 in homepage keyword 14 #153 in good keyword 37 ▲ 3

Other platforms

Not available on Android

PrevYou — YouTube Thumbnail Previewer (v1.5)

4.00

(3) 68

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

YouTubers want to preview their new upcomming video on amongst the other one on the YouTube Homepage to see if their thumbnail is good or bad. They often screenshot the homepage, go in Photoshop and make the job themself. This extension just requires you to upload your thumbnail and type the title of your video and you're done! You also have pretty interesting options such as:

Placing your thumbnail randomly on the homepage so you have to try to find it yourself and see if it's efficient or not.
Dark mode
Does not requires you to login and give your credential
Remembering your last submission

This is an open source extension so you can go on the repository of the extension and contribute or ask for new features. This extension has been created and developed by YouTuber Benjamin Code during a live stream on Twitch. The design has been realised by BastiUI during a live stream on Twitch. Lot of differents contributors developed good features for the project. It's an open source project that we hope will help a lot of creators.

User reviews

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Pros

Very practical and helpful extension.
Allows users to see YouTube thumbnails easily.
Open-source and community-driven.
Saves time in creating and reviewing thumbnails.

Cons

Profile picture doesn't update with custom images.
Channel logo doesn't show up in the preview.
Some users experience issues with the extension not launching.

Most mentioned

Super practical
Great community support
Time-saving features
Helpful for thumbnail originality

User reviews

Gavin, 2024-12-03

Awesome extension, only flaw is that the profile picture doesn't get updated when adding a custom image for it.

Carl Sjölander, 2024-11-30

I love the tool but my channel logo is not showing up on the preview, it just shows the one for the original video. How can i fix this? or is it a problem with the tool?