Browse YouTube, on your terms
Stop endless scrolling. Block distractions. Stay focused. FocusTube helps you watch what matters without getting sucked into the algorithm.
Be in control
Start with the essentials, or make YouTube your own.
- Hide main YouTube elements
- Hide YouTube Shorts
- Lock the toggles you want to keep
- Block YouTube tabs
Everything in Free, plus:
- Lock and schedule settings to keep you on track
- Granular control over every YouTube element
- Watch videos in FocusMode (promotion-free, cookie-free) Coming soon
- Every future feature, included
Privacy is non-negotiable
We will never collect your data. No analytics, no tracking, no selling your browsing habits - not now, not ever. That's the commitment. To keep this promise sustainable, FocusTube is supported by paying users instead of advertisers or data buyers. Your subscription is what keeps the extension free of surveillance and actively maintained.
What our users say
Join thousands of satisfied users who have transformed their YouTube experience with FocusTube.
"i hate youtube shorts, playables and erroneous posts. thanks."
Atlas Coombs
"Thanks :D"
Bobby Firm
"Bro cooked"
Roasted
"Works great!"
Lucas
"Very nice free app, thanks for the developer."
Vishnu
"it really brings to your attention how much you scroll youtube mindlessly"
victor mumo
"cant ask for something better than this extension"
Himanshu Tiwari
"best Absolute game changer"
Abhishek Giri
"its good."
Priyanshu Kumar
"I am seeing shorts now even though they are turned off in the extension. Home feed, searches and videos being watched...shorts are showing up again. Thanks for the hard work on this!!! Yes, I am on the 1.5.10 version. OK, that worked. Thanks for the help!!!!"
Eli Johnson
"This is pretty awesome. Exactly what I was looking for! The extension allows you to customise what you want/don't want on youtube.com."
Harshil Bhasin
"Really useful extensions and the small ui you use for toggling is very user friendly! this extension needs more downloads"
Zahid Malique
"This is a great extension for filtering out the junk that's on youtube. I've tried all the others but they just don't have the organization, ease of use, and speed that this one has."
Joey Rubin
"^^ What he said"
Jimmy Getzey
"absolutely Love it *chef's kiss*"
Lilith Imran
"As promised: full 5 stars for adding filter on the Subscriptions page as well. Also why do you need to read browser history?"
Christian Tenner
"Love it"
ManiKanta Koppala
"An easy to use tool where the page structure allows a quick navigation to what is that you want to see on the webpage"
Yifat Rubin
"i hate youtube shorts, playables and erroneous posts. thanks."
Atlas Coombs
"Thanks :D"
Bobby Firm
"Bro cooked"
Roasted
"Works great!"
Lucas
"Very nice free app, thanks for the developer."
Vishnu
"it really brings to your attention how much you scroll youtube mindlessly"
victor mumo
"cant ask for something better than this extension"
Himanshu Tiwari
"best Absolute game changer"
Abhishek Giri
"its good."
Priyanshu Kumar
"I am seeing shorts now even though they are turned off in the extension. Home feed, searches and videos being watched...shorts are showing up again. Thanks for the hard work on this!!! Yes, I am on the 1.5.10 version. OK, that worked. Thanks for the help!!!!"
Eli Johnson
"This is pretty awesome. Exactly what I was looking for! The extension allows you to customise what you want/don't want on youtube.com."
Harshil Bhasin
"Really useful extensions and the small ui you use for toggling is very user friendly! this extension needs more downloads"
Zahid Malique
"This is a great extension for filtering out the junk that's on youtube. I've tried all the others but they just don't have the organization, ease of use, and speed that this one has."
Joey Rubin
"^^ What he said"
Jimmy Getzey
"absolutely Love it *chef's kiss*"
Lilith Imran
"As promised: full 5 stars for adding filter on the Subscriptions page as well. Also why do you need to read browser history?"
Christian Tenner
"Love it"
ManiKanta Koppala
"An easy to use tool where the page structure allows a quick navigation to what is that you want to see on the webpage"
Yifat Rubin
"it is brilliant extension , I can hide every distraction in youtube like attractice thumbnails , recommanded videos, home page. It is the best app I found for distraction free youtube. But shorts tab is biggest distraction of doom scrolling and it is the cause of attention span deficiency and nowadays it is a global pandemic of attention span deficiency. I know you developers also know about it , so please give an update that can hide shorts tab also . please provide lock settings also ."
Atul Kumar Bamaniya
"I really love this! It is perfect for helping me block the adictive parts of youtube and still letting me interact with the platform in the way I consiously want. One request would be to block the recommendations you get in the videoplayer at the end of a video. Because that is still nudging u into the rabbithole of the algorythm. Love it and curious to see what the pro version will offer."
Jelmer van den Berg
"Absolutely goated."
Divyansh
"Does perfectly what it is made for"
Raphaël Joulin
"Perfect for me"
Office
"Absolutely perfect."
Sagar Shah
"Works well, has easy to use features. I really hope they keep maintaining this gem"
Darsshan M
"Perfect"
Réka Szalay
"Absolutely brilliant!"
Mark Polanco
"thank you for givving back people there power please keep the app free"
raghava khamampati
"Perfect if you just want to watch one video and not get distracted by clicking on the recommended videos on the side."
Andy Liu
"Good job bro. Very usefull extention. Thanks 🤗"
Olimov Behruzbek
"Incredible at helping me stay focused, but hiding videos on the homepage also applies to YouTube music and makes it completely unusable. I would appreciate it immensely if that could be fixed, as I use YouTube music very regularly. Edit: Issue has been resolved only 2 days later, massively appreciated ❤"
MrStick62
"extremely useful and smooth!"
PecoVlogs
"Amazing! Really helps me fight with my procrastination. Love how you can choose what to display and what not to at any of youtube screens separately The only thing I recognized while using - it looks like three dots under the video are not working anymore - so I cant add any vids to my playlists. Talking about them too - can you add an option to hide all thumbnails from playlists, please? Thank you so much, Benjamin! Hi again- giving you more feedback after using the extension for a ...Show more"
Tmatted
"Thank you very much man, my battle with yt addiction is never been easier ;)))"
Sang Đỗ Tấn
"Wow. Love this! Very effective productivity hack."
Brandon Smith
"Clean design, easy to use and effortlessly removes YouTube distractions. A must-have if you're looking to boost focus and productivity!"
Pepper Nguyen
"it is brilliant extension , I can hide every distraction in youtube like attractice thumbnails , recommanded videos, home page. It is the best app I found for distraction free youtube. But shorts tab is biggest distraction of doom scrolling and it is the cause of attention span deficiency and nowadays it is a global pandemic of attention span deficiency. I know you developers also know about it , so please give an update that can hide shorts tab also . please provide lock settings also ."
Atul Kumar Bamaniya
"I really love this! It is perfect for helping me block the adictive parts of youtube and still letting me interact with the platform in the way I consiously want. One request would be to block the recommendations you get in the videoplayer at the end of a video. Because that is still nudging u into the rabbithole of the algorythm. Love it and curious to see what the pro version will offer."
Jelmer van den Berg
"Absolutely goated."
Divyansh
"Does perfectly what it is made for"
Raphaël Joulin
"Perfect for me"
Office
"Absolutely perfect."
Sagar Shah
"Works well, has easy to use features. I really hope they keep maintaining this gem"
Darsshan M
"Perfect"
Réka Szalay
"Absolutely brilliant!"
Mark Polanco
"thank you for givving back people there power please keep the app free"
raghava khamampati
"Perfect if you just want to watch one video and not get distracted by clicking on the recommended videos on the side."
Andy Liu
"Good job bro. Very usefull extention. Thanks 🤗"
Olimov Behruzbek
"Incredible at helping me stay focused, but hiding videos on the homepage also applies to YouTube music and makes it completely unusable. I would appreciate it immensely if that could be fixed, as I use YouTube music very regularly. Edit: Issue has been resolved only 2 days later, massively appreciated ❤"
MrStick62
"extremely useful and smooth!"
PecoVlogs
"Amazing! Really helps me fight with my procrastination. Love how you can choose what to display and what not to at any of youtube screens separately The only thing I recognized while using - it looks like three dots under the video are not working anymore - so I cant add any vids to my playlists. Talking about them too - can you add an option to hide all thumbnails from playlists, please? Thank you so much, Benjamin! Hi again- giving you more feedback after using the extension for a ...Show more"
Tmatted
"Thank you very much man, my battle with yt addiction is never been easier ;)))"
Sang Đỗ Tấn
"Wow. Love this! Very effective productivity hack."
Brandon Smith
"Clean design, easy to use and effortlessly removes YouTube distractions. A must-have if you're looking to boost focus and productivity!"
Pepper Nguyen
"Its brilliant. I feel like I'm in control of Youtube and not the other way around. The whole youtube experience has been streamlined to what's important: Subscriptions without Shorts. No recommendations; I find new channels through direct searches. My only regret is I didn't install this years ago, or whenever it was first released!"
Edward Evjen
"Add search option"
fin
"Works well on the Brave browser !"
Paul Cordellier
"great app nothing to add at all just perfect. Just one request, enabling the extension sometimes messes with the playback speed option in youtube. please fix it."
M.Srivathsan
"wonderful and very useful for distracted people"
Harsha vardhan
"YOU CAN ADD A PASSWORD"
aayush rathor
"One of the best extensions I have come across in my life... Kudos to FocusTube and team!!"
Rupak Laggoni
"The amount of granularity you can achieve with this extension is incredible. I use it whenever I interact with YouTube and it helps with staying focused so much! Bye bye wasted time!"
Ira Chesley
"excellent now i can control my craving among youtube nice extension and this helping me alot to concentrate more on my work instead random scrollings and this become my fav extention love u wh made it 🤞"
Noor jahan
"Better than all of the competition, extremely intuitive and customizable."
Lucas Lima
"Pure modern best one I looked for an hour"
nepto technologies
"Thankyou very much for making the extension. It's really productive. Could you please please make one for Youtube music too. Thankyou very much!! Suggestion: In the video tab of the extension, there is this button called "Title and Discription". Would love it, if one can hide title and discription separately allowing users to see the title, like, share and subscribe without having the discription. Hope you update it soon.. Thanks a lot!!"
SAI CHARAN PANJA
"finally i can remove shorts and posts filled with hate and bots"
Marco
"should honestly charge for this, thanks so much!!"
Harry Mckeown
"Hey Benjamin!! What a great extension. I feel like you put all the necessary things in one: - unhook - Youtube-shorts block - Hide Youtube thumbnails May I suggest to also have the channel page, as when you go to one (https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium) you still see all those thumbnails :) Thanks again!"
Javier Bilbao
"I can Finally hide those shorts. is there a way to hide breaking news section, it's annoying every time I open YouTube I manually close the breaking news section."
Dimas Aktan
"great app 🤍"
mdb insurance agency
"Its brilliant. I feel like I'm in control of Youtube and not the other way around. The whole youtube experience has been streamlined to what's important: Subscriptions without Shorts. No recommendations; I find new channels through direct searches. My only regret is I didn't install this years ago, or whenever it was first released!"
Edward Evjen
"Add search option"
fin
"Works well on the Brave browser !"
Paul Cordellier
"great app nothing to add at all just perfect. Just one request, enabling the extension sometimes messes with the playback speed option in youtube. please fix it."
M.Srivathsan
"wonderful and very useful for distracted people"
Harsha vardhan
"YOU CAN ADD A PASSWORD"
aayush rathor
"One of the best extensions I have come across in my life... Kudos to FocusTube and team!!"
Rupak Laggoni
"The amount of granularity you can achieve with this extension is incredible. I use it whenever I interact with YouTube and it helps with staying focused so much! Bye bye wasted time!"
Ira Chesley
"excellent now i can control my craving among youtube nice extension and this helping me alot to concentrate more on my work instead random scrollings and this become my fav extention love u wh made it 🤞"
Noor jahan
"Better than all of the competition, extremely intuitive and customizable."
Lucas Lima
"Pure modern best one I looked for an hour"
nepto technologies
"Thankyou very much for making the extension. It's really productive. Could you please please make one for Youtube music too. Thankyou very much!! Suggestion: In the video tab of the extension, there is this button called "Title and Discription". Would love it, if one can hide title and discription separately allowing users to see the title, like, share and subscribe without having the discription. Hope you update it soon.. Thanks a lot!!"
SAI CHARAN PANJA
"finally i can remove shorts and posts filled with hate and bots"
Marco
"should honestly charge for this, thanks so much!!"
Harry Mckeown
"Hey Benjamin!! What a great extension. I feel like you put all the necessary things in one: - unhook - Youtube-shorts block - Hide Youtube thumbnails May I suggest to also have the channel page, as when you go to one (https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium) you still see all those thumbnails :) Thanks again!"
Javier Bilbao
"I can Finally hide those shorts. is there a way to hide breaking news section, it's annoying every time I open YouTube I manually close the breaking news section."
Dimas Aktan
"great app 🤍"
mdb insurance agency
"It’s great overall — I’m just waiting for the pro features since that’s the only real issue. The settings are too easy to change, so when I’m studying and suddenly feel like watching a video, I can switch them with just one click and get distracted. A locked version is all I really need."
Ishanvi Kundara
"Absolutely killed it"
Salmanul Faris
"Coming here from "DF Youtube" since they decided that their generic app needs monetary gain. I hope it is not the case with this app as well, otherwise I will revisit my review. Thank you:)"
Ulrik Helk
"cant get any better litreally perfect"
Kay
"very helpful to me.suggested for scrollers like me."
SUBHASH GUPTA
"nice"
Tamonash Dey
"nice reduces distraction"
ShubhDas
"GOATED"
Palgun H
"If there's a God, this developer would be proof; handcrafted to make the best distraction blocker plugin I've ever seen! Please keep this going, the user interface and experience is extremely intuitive and the google styled home page is so beautiful I could shed a tear!"
michael smith
"I installed your extension a few days ago. I am facing a problem with the video section on your extension. When I turn off the thumbnail option, it doesn't work properly. Thumbnails are always shown in the video section. Please fix the problem as soon as possible. Except it all features are awesome. Thanks a lot for making this extension Back to top Discover Extensions ThBeemnejsamin"
Freelancer ZorZis
"Banger for writing a diploma"
Surface Surface
"Such a game changer! Customizable, simple, such a great way to block shorts and lessen doomscrolling"
Anavi Basu
"Great tools for people who can't stop clicking videos and binging them and helps focusing"
MINESH RAJPUT
"So far fantastic! Exactly what I've always wanted."
Erik Normann Sannes Aanonsen
"Get's rid of all dopamine. Great for self-improvement. Im happy :D"
DanDan A
"Amazing work on this, thank you! P.S. I noticed that after you pushed the update on May 10th my settings were refreshed. Would be nice to have long-term storage of settings."
Julian Wagle
"Love that you can hide all those irrelevant search results on the search page. I feel I need to scroll so much just to see what I'm looking for nowadays amongst the shorts and other randomly recommended videos"
Benja
"It’s great overall — I’m just waiting for the pro features since that’s the only real issue. The settings are too easy to change, so when I’m studying and suddenly feel like watching a video, I can switch them with just one click and get distracted. A locked version is all I really need."
Ishanvi Kundara
"Absolutely killed it"
Salmanul Faris
"Coming here from "DF Youtube" since they decided that their generic app needs monetary gain. I hope it is not the case with this app as well, otherwise I will revisit my review. Thank you:)"
Ulrik Helk
"cant get any better litreally perfect"
Kay
"very helpful to me.suggested for scrollers like me."
SUBHASH GUPTA
"nice"
Tamonash Dey
"nice reduces distraction"
ShubhDas
"GOATED"
Palgun H
"If there's a God, this developer would be proof; handcrafted to make the best distraction blocker plugin I've ever seen! Please keep this going, the user interface and experience is extremely intuitive and the google styled home page is so beautiful I could shed a tear!"
michael smith
"I installed your extension a few days ago. I am facing a problem with the video section on your extension. When I turn off the thumbnail option, it doesn't work properly. Thumbnails are always shown in the video section. Please fix the problem as soon as possible. Except it all features are awesome. Thanks a lot for making this extension Back to top Discover Extensions ThBeemnejsamin"
Freelancer ZorZis
"Banger for writing a diploma"
Surface Surface
"Such a game changer! Customizable, simple, such a great way to block shorts and lessen doomscrolling"
Anavi Basu
"Great tools for people who can't stop clicking videos and binging them and helps focusing"
MINESH RAJPUT
"So far fantastic! Exactly what I've always wanted."
Erik Normann Sannes Aanonsen
"Get's rid of all dopamine. Great for self-improvement. Im happy :D"
DanDan A
"Amazing work on this, thank you! P.S. I noticed that after you pushed the update on May 10th my settings were refreshed. Would be nice to have long-term storage of settings."
Julian Wagle
"Love that you can hide all those irrelevant search results on the search page. I feel I need to scroll so much just to see what I'm looking for nowadays amongst the shorts and other randomly recommended videos"
Benja
Frequently asked questions
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Browser support
FocusTube is available for Google Chrome and Brave. Install from the Chrome Web Store - Brave supports Chrome extensions by default, so the same build works there too.
Coming soon: Microsoft Edge and Firefox.
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