Better Playlists
A sidebar for all your playlists
Switch between playlists without reloading or losing your place.
- Grouped into Quick, Created and Saved
- Drag and drop to reorder
- Create, edit and share right from the sidebar
Chrome extension for YouTube
Your YouTube playlists, finally organized.
An always-there playlist sidebar, real batch move, copy and remove, one-click cleanup of deleted and duplicate videos, and search across every playlist. All of it in YouTube's own look.
- Free core features
- No extra login or API key
- Runs locally, no tracking
Quick
Watch later412
Liked videos1,208
Created
Cooking38
Music for focus96
Travel ideas54
Learn Japanese71
Saved
CS50 lectures24
Lo-fi radio150
Watch later412 videos · Private
Date addedMost popularFilterSearch in playlist
3 selectedMove to…CopyRemove
9:41
The easiest weeknight ramen
Home Kitchen · 902K views
3:12:08
Lo-fi beats to study and relax to
Chill Cafe · 2.1M views
14:20
Perfect pan pizza at home
Home Kitchen · 1.4M views
Deleted video
[Deleted video]
Unavailable
58:20
Tokyo at night, 4K walking tour
City Walks · 1.3M views
11:05
Knife skills in ten minutes
Chef Notes · 650K views
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Why we built this
YouTube is great at videos. Less so at playlists.
01
One video at a time
Moving a video means the three-dots menu, save to the new list, then go back and remove it from the old one. Now do that fifty times.
02
Watch Later never ends
Hundreds of videos, endless scrolling, and the page gets slower the further you go. Deleted and private videos pile up in between.
03
Where did I save that?
You know you saved it somewhere. YouTube has no way to search inside your playlists, let alone across all of them.
Features
Everything a playlist page should have had.
Better Playlists takes over YouTube's playlist pages and adds the tools that were missing. Switch back to YouTube's native page anytime from the menu.
True batch operations
Select once, act once. Hours of clicking become a few seconds.
- Shift + Click for ranges, select a page or the whole list
- Move, or copy to several playlists at once
- Asks before removing, so nothing goes by accident
One-click cleanup
Clear out what shouldn't be there anymore.
- Remove deleted, private and region-blocked videos
- Find duplicates, keep the first or the last copy
Search, inside and across
Find a video by title or channel, instantly.
- Real-time filter within a playlist
- Search all your playlists at once
- Jump straight to the list that has it
Clean pagination
No more infinite scroll that slows the tab to a crawl.
- 40 videos per page, jump to any page
- Sort by date added, popularity or upload date
- Local sorting never rewrites your real order
Looks like YouTube
Built on YouTube's own design tokens, fonts and corners, light and dark.
- Feels native, not bolted on
- Switch back to the native page in one click
- Optional themes for all of YouTube
Keyboard shortcuts
Works the way your file manager does.
If you've ever selected files on your desktop, you already know how to use it.
- Ctrl / ⌘Click
- Start batch edit with this video selected
- ShiftClick
- Select every video in between
- Ctrl / ⌘A
- Select every video on this page
- Esc
- Leave batch edit
Privacy
Your playlists stay between you and YouTube.
We don't run servers that see your playlists, and we don't want to. Read the privacy policy
Runs in your browser
Everything happens locally. Caches and search indexes live in your browser's own storage.
No extra login
It uses the YouTube session you're already signed in with. No password, API key or Google permission prompt.
No tracking
No analytics, no telemetry, no ads. We don't collect your watch history or playlist contents.
Minimal permissions
Only storage and www.youtube.com. It can't see any other site you visit.
Optional · Support Pack
Make all of YouTube look the way you like.
11 themes recolor the whole site: home, watch page, search, menus, even the progress bar. Try one here and this page switches with it. In the extension, any theme can be previewed for free for 5 minutes.
Now showing: YouTube Dark
Pricing
Free to organize. Pay only if you want themes.
Free
Every organizing feature, forever.
$0
- Playlist sidebar with drag-and-drop
- Batch move, copy, remove and unlike
- Unavailable and duplicate cleanup
- Search in and across playlists
- Pagination and local sorting
- YouTube's own light and dark look
Support Pack
For people who like a nicer-looking YouTube.
$9.99once · lifetime
- All 11 premium themes, unlocked right away
- Future themes at no extra cost
- Use it on up to 10 browsers
- Keeps Better Playlists free and ad-free
One-time payment, no subscription · 30-day money-back guarantee · In mainland China: 爱发电 ¥39
FAQ
Questions
Does it change my actual playlists?
Only when you ask it to. Move, copy, remove, reorder and edit are real changes on your YouTube account, the same ones you'd make by hand. Sorting by date or popularity happens locally and never rewrites your playlist's real order.
Do I need to sign in or give it access to my Google account?
No. It works with the YouTube session you're already signed in with, inside the YouTube tab. There's no separate login, API key or Google permission prompt.
Can I go back to YouTube's normal playlist page?
Yes. Every playlist page has "Switch to YouTube's view" in its ⋮ menu, and a small button brings you back. The toolbar popup can also turn Better Playlists off entirely.
What if I remove something by mistake?
Removals ask for confirmation first, and you decide in Settings when to be asked. Moves and copies only add videos to the playlists you pick.
Why does it need access to youtube.com?
To show the sidebar and the new playlist page, and to read and edit your playlists through YouTube itself. It doesn't run on any other site.
Will the free features stay free?
Yes. Everything for organizing playlists is free. The Support Pack only adds premium themes.
Does my Better Sidebar key work here?
No. Better Sidebar and Better Playlists are separate products with separate licenses.