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24 alternatives to Tempus

A tool to efficiently view YouTube comments with timestamps

Tempus is a Chrome extension that helps users manage and view YouTube comments alongside their timestamps. It streamlines the process of tracking comments in videos by connecting remarks to specific moments, making it… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Tempus launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1TV

    Hi everyone, this is Sarthak Mangla, a high school student from New Delhi, India. Over the past two months, I have been working on Tempus, a Chrome extension that allows you to efficiently manage and view YouTube comments with timestamps. It just went live on Chrome Web Store — install it here: https://bit.ly/3iZejEF Features: 1. View concentration of comments using opacity of displayed markers. 2. View comments containing a particular timestamp. 3. While playing the video, view comments with timestamps like a live chat replay. 4. Customize the primary colour, block size of…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    TimeSkip▲326

    Generate timestamps for videos in seconds

    2024 · timeskip.io · its alternatives →

  3. 3

    An extension for Firefox and Chrome to add comments to any URL - comntr/webext

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4

    Generate timestamps for your video in seconds

    2024 · timestamper.vercel.app · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    Watch YouTube videos and read comments at the same time

    2017 · its alternatives →

  6. 6

    Minimalistic Chrome extension that tracks time on Youtube

    2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7

    Search, filter, download & analyze YouTube comments

    2024 · alternatifdonototo.com · its alternatives →

  8. 8

    YouTube summary with ChatGPT

    2023 · chatgpt4youtube.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9

    Make and share video notes by timestamps

    2020 · its alternatives →

  10. 10

    Summarize YouTube comments

    2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11
    OSHIStamp▲125

    YouTube video timestamp creation support tool

    2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Supajar▲140

    Analyze and search YouTube comments with AI

    2025 · supajar.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13TW
  14. 14

    SoundCloud-style time-tied comments for youtube

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    TimeWipe▲104

    Quickly remove timestamps from video transcripts

    2023 · timewipe.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16

    Yesterday I registered the domain temp.now. Today, I deployed a temporary email tool using open-source code, which is convenient for registering products and services. As long as you save the login credentials, you can keep the generated addresses indefinitely. Enjoy! EN URL: https://temp.now/en/

    2024 · temp.now · its alternatives →

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    TLDR▲78

    Chrome extension that saves & summarizes your tabs

    2022 · its alternatives →

  18. 18

    View timestamped comments in real-time with the video

    2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19

    Elevate Youtube viewer experience with automated timestamps

    2023 · timestampgenius.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20

    Hello Hacker News community, I've been developing a simple Chrome extension designed to assist journalists and researchers or learners in their YouTube investigations. You can swiftly identify specific segments within a video using semantic searches, powered by the OpenAI API. This transforms hours of potential scrubbing into moments of precision seeking. Whether you're sifting through extensive interviews, press conferences, and event footage on YouTube, or you require a quote from a video source, This extension is a handy tool. It also aids in quickly fact-checking statements made in…

    2023 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21MA

    After 18 months of tinkering and iterating, we want to show you our Memex: An open-source browser extension to effortlessly organise your web-research. We'd love to know what you think :) Check it out at https://worldbrain.io/hn Memex features: - Instantly find websites you visited with the fuzzy memories you have about them, instead of bookmarking everything or keeping dozens of open tabs. Search for every word of every website you’ve seen, and filter by time, domain, custom tags or bookmarks. - Add your thoughts to websites via comments & annotations, directly in the browser…

    2018 · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    Take timestamped notes of YouTube videos in your browser

    2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23TW
  24. 24

    Export and analyze YouTube comments in seconds.

    Jul 2026 · veerexa.com · its alternatives →

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