Alternatives

Products that do what Chrome extension to show beautiful transcripts on YouTube does

1. 1AA
   An Alternative Web Interface for YouTube▲110

   2016 · essentialyoutube.com

2. 2YD
   YouTube-dl wrapper with added features to easily manage YouTube audio▲91

   2020 · github.com

3. 3NO
   Nodetube – Open-source YouTube alternative with image and audio uploads▲151

   2020 · github.com

4. 4IC
   I create a free website for download YouTube transcript, subtitle▲125

   2024 · downloadyoutubesubtitle.com

5. 5IM
   I made a tool to extract YouTube transcripts and skip the fluff▲6

   2025 · transcriptgenerator.org

6. 6AC
   A chrome extension that fades out old links on HN/Reddit/News sites▲28

   2018 · chrome.google.com

7. 7LA
   Look Away to Pause YouTube (Experimental Chrome Extension)▲21

   2018 · github.com

8. 8TA
   Turn any YouTube video into a blog post▲12

   Hi everyone! This project started with me manually doing the following process: Step 1: Get the transcript from youtube by clicking "show transcript" inside the description box Step 2: The transcript usually won't have any punctuation and have lots of mistakes, so paste it into ChatGPT to clean it up or summarize it. The idea here is to make this process as seamless as possible. What I ended up with was a Chrome extension [0] that adds a button in the YouTube UI that does all of this. Automating it allowed me to do a lot of cool things that would be hard to do manually: 1. I use the…

   2023 · chrome.google.com

9. 9TT
   Text-To-Speech Chrome Extensions for HN▲6

   2018 · chrome.google.com

10. 10FW
    Free web app to read YouTube transcripts and highlight them▲15

    2024 · appblit.com

11. 11TF
    Trailers for Netflix (Chrome extension)▲20

    2013 · chrome.google.com

12. 12DA
    Deebrief, a better way to comment on YouTube videos▲27

    2014 · deebrief.com

13. 13SA
    Streamus – A Chrome extension for listening to YouTube music▲6

    2015 · chrome.google.com

14. 14
    YT Transcript AI▲2

    Copy YouTube transcripts in 1 click. Free & fast

    May 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com

15. 15CA
    Chromecast app I built for a bunch of "video" sites▲15

    2014 · dabble.me

16. 16SB
    Search Bar for YouTube Transcripts▲8

    Hi HN! Using Ctrl+F on YouTube Transcripts doesn't have the best UI/UX, so I built a chrome extension to inject a input search box that filters for any queries. YouTube actually has this feature for a few videos (ex: https://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo) for years now. I'm not sure why they haven't rolled it out for all videos. I didn't want to wait. The extension will only inject it's own search box if the video does not already have one on YouTube. I tried styling it to look similar to YouTube's design. Indexing and querying rules follow the…

    2024 · youtubetranscriptsearch.com

17. 17FY
    Free YouTube Summarizer▲5

    2024 · thesamur.ai

18. 18TA
    Transcribe any YouTube video with 1 click▲6

    2021 · ytscribe.com

19. 19OS
    Open-source, local-first video file browser like YouTube▲8

    2021 · github.com

20. 20CE
    Chrome Extension that puts audio visualizer in New Tab▲10

    2017 · chrome.google.com

21. 21MB
    Mootu.be - a cleaner way to view YouTube videos▲5

    2012 · mootu.be

22. 22YC
    YouTube Code Along Editor▲9

    2019 · codecast.me

23. 23IC
    I created a Chrome extension that reveals HN's hidden comment scores.▲5

    2011 · chrome.google.com

24. 24
    TranscriptSnap▲3

    YouTube transcripts, minus the timestamps and the signup

    Jul 2026 · wushu75.github.io

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