HyperChat [Improved YouTube Chat]
Improved YouTube chat with CPU/RAM optimizations, customization options, and cutting-edge features!
HyperChat: Enhanced YouTube Livestream Chat Experience
HyperChat is a Chrome extension designed to enhance the YouTube livestream chat experience. It includes a series of CPU/RAM optimizations, customization options, and cutting-edge features. It allows memory leak patches, custom-built message rendering, and cross-extension message parsing. Users can personalize chat appearances with light and dark themes, the visibility of various chat elements, native emoji rendering, and more. It also offers quality-of-life features like Google Translate integration, message filters, and auto-switch to 'Live Chat'. It's compatible with other extensions and is free and open source.
Extension stats
Manifest V3
Permissions:
- storage
Size: 1.25M
Email: ke*****@outlook.com
URLs: Privacy policy
Full description: See detailed description
Source: Chrome Web Store
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Pros
- Significantly reduces lag in YouTube chat
- Resolves RAM leak issues
- Allows popping out chat and changing themes
- Works well on both Chrome and Firefox browsers
- Has features similar to BetterTTV for YouTube Live Chat
Cons
- Uses a lot of RAM when watching videos
- Inability to delete own messages
- Issues with reporting comments
- Problems with channel guidelines pop-ups causing inability to send messages
- Breaks functionality of other live chat extensions
Most mentioned
- RAM usage and performance issues
- Inability to delete own messages
- Problems with channel guidelines pop-up blocking message sending
- Chat lag reduction
- Compatibility issues with other extensions
User reviews
can add a auto refresh(like every 10 minutes) function ?
by 
lew kee, 2025-03-02
lew kee, 2025-03-02It's good, but the problem is that it uses a lot of RAM, and this affects performance when watching videos.
Solve this.
by 
Rafael Mattos, 2025-02-28
Rafael Mattos, 2025-02-28Fixes the memory issue with youtube chat.
by 
Kate Hoshimiya, 2025-02-26
Kate Hoshimiya, 2025-02-26Extension safety
Risk impact
HyperChat [Improved YouTube Chat] requires very minimum permissions.
Risk impact analysis details
- High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
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HyperChat [Improved YouTube Chat] has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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