# YouTube Watchtime Tracker

> Tracks how much time you spend watching YouTube videos – including time per channel.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-watchtime-tracker](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-watchtime-tracker)

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-watchtime-tracker`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Bertram
- **Category:** photos-music-videos,alerts-updates
- **Daily users:** 45
- **Weekly downloads:** 9
- **Version:** 1.12.1
- **Last updated:** 2025-07-23
- **First published:** 2025-07-20
- **Size:** 11 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-watchtime-tracker/)

## Description

YouTube Watchtime Tracker is a lightweight, privacy-friendly extension that helps you understand how much time you spend on YouTube.

It tracks the total time you spend watching YouTube videos, as well as how much time you’ve spent watching each individual channel. The data is displayed in a clean and minimal popup, updated live as you browse.

<strong>Key features:</strong>
- Tracks total watch time on YouTube
- Tracks watch time per channel
- Clean, minimal and responsive popup interface
- No accounts, no ads, no data leaves your browser

All data is stored locally in your browser using storage.local, and nothing is ever uploaded or shared.

Ideal for those who want insight into their YouTube habits – or just want to be more mindful of their screen time.

## Rankings

- #16,993 — Overall
- #24 — screentime tracker
- #25 — screen time tracker
- #58 — spend
- #93 — tracker
- #97 — watch

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `tabs`

### Content script matches

- `www.youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-watchtime-tracker)