YouTube Refined: Improve's YouTube UI

Updates the Desktop YouTube UI to have rounded corners and further enhancements and tweaks.

YouTube Refined: Enhance & Improve YouTube Desktop UI

YouTube Refined: Improve's YouTube UI is a Chrome Extension aimed at refining YouTube's desktop user interface. Experience YouTube with rounded corners, added hover animations, increased spacing, and color enhancements among others. The extension provides clear separation of comments, background colors for unfinished videos, and adds a distinct 'CONTINUE WATCHING' label for previously watched videos. Enjoy enhanced user experience without altering YouTube's functionality.

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By: Thomas Carter

Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.50

(22)

Version: 1.0.1 (Last updated: 2022-10-18)

Creation date: 2021-10-15

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Size: 13.39K

Email: th*****@bluedino.co.uk

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# 23,525 ▼ 15

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#1760 in Just for Fun ▼ 6

#39 in improve keyword 73

#127 in increase keyword 60 ▼ 10

#136 in animation keyword 70 ▼ 4

#261 in youtube keyword 95 ▼ 9

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Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Tube Refiner for YouTube™ (v1.0.0)

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Extension summary

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Refine and enhance the desktop experience of YouTube with more consistent UI, rounded corners and general tweaks. This extension does not change any functionality of YouTube, this is simply an UI polish and enhancement. The UI tweaks will work in both light and dark mode and will adapt accordingly. Below is a list of the UI tweaks that have been currently made:

SUBSCRIPTIONS:

Increased spacing between each video
Added a hover animation to each video, making it clear which video you are clicking and to add some flare.
Video thumbnails now use rounded corners

VIDEO PLAYER:

Adds rounded corners to video player
Increased the roundness of corners on action buttons
Adds rounded corners to the individual flyout cards
Adds a hover animation to the individual flyout cards
Fixes the flyout menu appearing below end slate elements
Adds a background colour to the Share, Download, Clip and Save buttons to make them more consistent with other action buttons
Increased the spacing of elements within the channel strip and top comment strip

User reviews

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Pros

Improves YouTube's UI, making it look great and refined.
Users appreciate the overall layout and rounded look.
Many find it smooth and easy to use.

Cons

Lack of customization options; needs individual toggles for features.
Some issues with spacing and wasted whitespace between comments.
Disables YouTube's Ambient-mode.

Most mentioned

Customization options are desired.
Great overall visual improvements.
Issues with comment spacing and layout.

User reviews

surprised by all its functions.

Sarvesh Raj, 2024-12-22

Not bad, I guess; it does what it claims to do.

QvrTz, 2024-05-01

I love the extension. That being said, I have noticed that when you highlight the "view replies" function in the comments, the oval around it overlaps the comment's border. It's a very small thing, but it'd be cool to see it addressed