YouTube Refined: Improve's YouTube UI

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

What is YouTube Refined: Improve's YouTube 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

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.50 (20)

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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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 23821 ▼ 61

Other rankings

#1600 in Just for Fun ▲ 6 #32 in improve keyword 27 ▼ 4 #76 in hover keyword 28 ▼ 2 #92 in animation keyword 14 ▲ 1 #241 in youtube keyword 89 ▲

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Tube Refiner for YouTube™ (v1.0.0)

4.00 (2) 281

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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

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Improves YouTube UI
Makes YouTube look great
Adds a modern look to YouTube

Cons

Lack of customization options
Issues with dark mode functionality
Seems to force-disable YouTube's Ambient-mode

Most mentioned

Improves YouTube UI
Lack of customization options
Comments separation box

Recent reviews

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

Alternatehistoryball, 2024-03-24

Great extension, but needs just a few features: a.) Customization: I read the other reviews, and know that you are working on it. b.) Functionality on dark mode: The "Continue Watching" text is hard to see when using dark mode.

Alt-Key Here, 2024-02-22

a lot of serious work! many smiles! Consider joining us on https://github.com/code-charity/youtube we have a cute framework for making complex features and immediate changes by CSS only. And i cant recommend to run a browser extension for Youtube alone. Rather only open-source with a million users. That's why its heart breaking to see separation of volunteers, fading forces.