YouTube
230 projects shared since May 2026 were built for YouTube.
How these numbers are counted and compared: the method.
Summary
Builders made 230 add-ons, companions or plugins for YouTube since May 2026, 122 of them in the last 12 weeks. Over the last 4 weeks, What am I doing wrong drew the most discussion (30 comments). It lists fast-growing YouTube creators with filters for channel size and contact availability so designers and editors can reach out to them. It turns up most in YouTube browser extensions, YouTube AI summarizers & note-takers and Online video downloaders and players. 19 projects were pitched as alternatives to it.
Projects built with it
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Share of stated stacks, last 4 weeks
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Adjusted trend, last 4 weeks vs previous 8 weeks
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Add-ons built for it
230
Share of stated stacks, each week
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Latest add-ons built for YouTube
- Simple Chess Video Analyzer — Recognizes a chess board in a YouTube video and overlays Stockfish's best move and move-quality labels on the board.“Simple Chess Video Analyzer Chrome Extension”
- Tech Bench Auto-Captioner — Transcribes video speech locally and burns karaoke-style word-highlighting subtitles into MP4 files, also exporting SRT files.“I built a free, local AI auto-captioner for YouTube videos — V1.0 released”
- transcriptapi — Returns YouTube video transcripts through an API endpoint, with channel and playlist support and an MCP server for AI assistants.“Spent 300 bucks on proxies, gave up, built the thing i wanted to pay for”
- anyPWA — Opens websites fullscreen in a native wrapper with built-in ad blocking and background playback.“anyPWA - Ad-free YouTube, YouTube Music and Spotify on iPhone, iPad and macOS without sideloading”
- youtube-nano-chapters — Generates chapter markers for YouTube videos lacking them by detecting topic shifts in the video transcript.“generate chapters for YouTube videos that don't have them!”
- Needle — Searches YouTube channels and playlists with duration and view-count filters, including watch later and watched history, and alerts when new matching videos appear.“Needle: An advanced YouTube Channel search tool with filters. Now works on watch later , subscription , playlists. (150+ installs🥹)”
- yt-transcript, gtrends, keyword-ideas, play-reviews — Fetches YouTube transcripts, Google Trends data, autocomplete keyword ideas, and Google Play reviews from the command line without an API key.“I built 4 free no-API-key data CLIs (open source)”
- A generic tool i built and… — Downloads videos from YouTube, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook via a simple web page.“A generic tool i built and forgot two months ago is hitting 200+ Visitors a day and i don't know how to monetize it”
- Subturtle — Translates hovered subtitles and selected text into the reader's language, saves phrases with their source sentence, and offers review and AI speaking practice.“Subturtle - I built a Chrome extension to learn English from the shows I was already watching”
- My side project — Generates a faceless YouTube video from paper cutout stop-motion animation built entirely in code, with AI handling topic, research, script, visuals and voice.“My side project: testing whether the "faceless AI youtube channel" hype is actually real”
- Shadowly — Turns a YouTube video's captions into English shadowing lessons with recording and pronunciation scoring.“I built Shadowly — paste a YouTube link, get an AI speaking lesson with pronunciation feedback (Next.js, no database)”
- YouTube Automation by Jhon — Teaches paid students to run AI-automated YouTube channels through a nine-lesson video course with prompts.“Youtube Automation is it possible?”
- VibeCheck — Adds Facebook-style emoji reactions to YouTube videos and shows live reaction counts.“I spent the last two weeks building a free Chrome extension that adds Facebook-style emoji reactions to YouTube. It's built with JS and Firebase. Would love some feedback!”
- Juicer — Generates AI summaries of YouTube videos from search, channel and playlist pages without opening them, using the user's own API key.“I built an extension that summarizes YouTube videos without opening them, using your own API key”
- Made a kids channel about… — Publishes short animated YouTube stories that help toddlers and preschoolers handle emotions and everyday fears, with parent notes in each description.“Made a kids channel about emotions with a child psychologist friend, using AI because we have no budget. Would love honest feedback on our intro”
Pitched as alternatives to YouTube
- Starplayer — Plays locally stored music files with playlists and rating-based filtering, without ads or data collection.“Starplayer: ad-free, private, and beautiful music player”
- scroll — Serves short, sourced articles on varied topics, each with an optional multiple-choice question to check comprehension.“i built an app to stop me from doomscrolling”
- NotDistract — Plays YouTube search results in a stripped-down player with a built-in focus timer and distraction prompts.“I kept losing hours to YouTube recommendations while trying to study, so I built a distraction-free YouTube alternative with a built-in focus timer (100% free & open-source)”
- Watch Later Enhanced — Saves YouTube videos to a local, taggable watch-later queue with drag-and-drop ordering and a floating picture-in-picture mini player.“Watch Later Enhanced 3.0 version is out now! 😺”
- AZLens — Combines YouTube channel analytics, competitor tracking, keyword research and AI content-idea suggestions into one web dashboard.“Built a YouTube analytics dashboard because I was tired of paying for four tools at once”
- Offgrid YT Homepage — Provides a YouTube front page consisting only of a search bar, with no recommendations or feed.“I keep being distracted by the YT Homepage, so I built my own one to be more productive! (its JUST a search bar, nothing else)”
- Duskroom — Plays looping ambient scenes with separate sound mixing, a focus timer, and a notes panel in one full-screen view.“My YouTube rain tab had no timer and nowhere to put notes, so I built the version I wanted”
- Fluxa — Plays YouTube videos anonymously in an ad-free Android client built on NewPipe Extractor, with a locally computed feed.“Hi everyone, I'm Makki, and I've launched my first mobile app, which is an alternative YouTube client called Fluxa.”
- Pickwick — Limits a child's YouTube viewing to parent-chosen channels and playlists, with time limits and an optional AI check of new videos against house rules.“I got tired of fighting YouTube over my 11 year old, so I built my own version of it”
- Ziddny World — Generates personalized illustrated, narrated children's stories with recurring characters and a 3D avatar narrator from a simple idea.“I built a tool that turns a child’s idea into their own illustrated story world”
- Toonup — Hosts and runs small vibe-coded mini apps sandboxed in the browser, with a video-platform-style catalog for discovering them.“Toonup, YouTube but for mini vibecoded apps (sandboxed in the browser)”
- bestie — Generates short visual explanations of any topic the user types in, using AI.“AI teacher that explains anything visually.”
- Pyromacy — Hosts user accounts where people upload and publish videos, a self-built YouTube clone.“My homemade YouTube”
- HiddenTube — Surfaces YouTube videos with fewer than 1,000 views, mainly Spanish-language content, as an alternative to the main recommendation feed.“HiddenTube – An anti-algorithm YouTube client for hidden gems with <1,000 views (Note: Content is currently in Spanish!)”
- YT Zero — Provides a self-hosted subscriptions reader for YouTube using public RSS feeds, with local queues, tags, and playlists and no recommendations or Google login.“YT Zero - YouTube without algorithm, login, API keys”