HyperChat [Improved YouTube Chat]

Improved YouTube chat with CPU/RAM optimizations, customization options, and cutting-edge features!

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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.

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By: Kento Nishi

Users: 50,000+

Rating: 4.61

(153)

3 new ratings

Version: 3.0.4 (Last updated: 2025-01-17)

Creation date: 2021-03-08

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Size: 1.25M

Email: ke*****@outlook.com

URLs: Privacy policy

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 3,655 ▲ 75

Other rankings

#353 in Social Networking ▲ 9 #5 in chat keyword 13 ▼ 1 #11 in improve keyword 19 ▼ 1 #116 in features keyword 33 ▼ 7 #216 in emoji keyword 15 ▲ 1

Other platforms

Not available on Android

HyperChat [Improved YouTube Chat] (v3.0.4)

4,158+ 4.59

(61)

Not available on Edge

User reviews

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Pros

Significantly reduces lag in YouTube chat
Customizable themes and pop-out chat
Resolves RAM issues while streaming videos
Useful chat translation feature

Cons

High memory usage affecting performance
Inability to delete own messages
Cannot report comments with options
Issues with channel guideline pop-ups blocking chat

Most mentioned

Memory usage and performance issues
Chat functionalities (deleting messages, reporting)
Need for additional features like filters and options for moderators
General functionality and bug issues with new YouTube updates

User reviews

can add a auto refresh(like every 10 minutes) function ?

lew kee, 2025-03-02

It's good, but the problem is that it uses a lot of RAM, and this affects performance when watching videos. Solve this.

Rafael Mattos, 2025-02-28

Fixes the memory issue with youtube chat.

Kate Hoshimiya, 2025-02-26

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Extension safety

Risk impact

HyperChat [Improved YouTube Chat] requires very minimum permissions.

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