Chrome extension
Use YouTube without
YouTube using you.
Quiet strips YouTube down to the video you came for. Shorts, the homepage feed, recommendations, end screens and comments are gone before the page finishes loading.
Two Chrome permissions. No tracking in the extension. Free settings never leave your browser.
What Quiet removes
Shorts
Comments
Free, on by default
28 switches. Sixteen of them
are already on.
Gone the moment you install
16 switches- Shorts shelf
- Homepage feed
- Recommended videos
- Comments
- Live chat and the playlist panel
- After-video suggestions and end cards
- Explore and trending
- Playlist rows and mixes
- Extra rows in search
- Merch, tickets and fundraisers
- Info cards and the watermark
- Autoplay
Yours to switch on
12 switches- Video thumbnails
- View and like counts
- Community posts
- Search suggestions
- A video’s buttons, channel row and description
- The top bar and search
- Notification bell
- Subscriptions and “More from YouTube” in the menu
- Open Subscriptions, not the homepage
Off until you ask, because they change how YouTube is laid out rather than how loud it is.
Every one has its own switch in the toolbar popup. Flip it and that part of YouTube is back.
Setup
Three seconds to install.
Install
Add Quiet to Chrome. No account needed for the free tier.
Open YouTube
YouTube loads quietly. Shorts gone. Feed gone. Just search and videos.
Control it
Click the toolbar icon to toggle any element on or off individually.
Pro
Hiding is free.
Staying off is what Pro is for.
Every switch above is in the free extension, for good. Pro is for the three things a switch can’t do by itself.
Stays on when your willpower doesn’t
A switch you can flip back is only as strong as the moment you’re in. Pro decides ahead of time.
- Schedules hold Quiet on through your work or study hours, even if it’s switched off in the popup
- Focus sessions lock every distraction off for 30 minutes, 1 hour or 2, and ask before ending early
- A daily watch limit turns everything strict once you’ve reached it
Rules your child can’t switch back
Set them from your own dashboard, on your own device. The popup on theirs becomes read-only.
- Lock the settings on every browser signed in to the account
- Change them from the web, without touching the computer
- Get an email if a locked browser stops checking in
A soft lock, for a shared family computer or a school Chromebook. It can’t stop someone removing the extension from Chrome, which is what the email is for, and it can’t reach the YouTube app on a phone.
Block the channel, not just the shelf
Hiding a section of the page doesn’t stop one channel or one topic turning up everywhere else.
- Block a channel and its videos leave search, recommendations and Shorts
- Block a word and every title that contains it goes with it
- A blocked channel’s video stays covered even when opened by link
Also in Pro
Sync and a web dashboard
One account carries your settings to every Chrome, Edge or Brave browser you sign in to, and lets you change them from the web.
Profiles
Work and Research built in, presets for how you use YouTube, and up to ten of your own.
Channel allowlist
Trust a channel? Quiet steps aside on its videos and is back on the moment you leave them.
Time-saved stats
"You blocked 312 distractions this week." Right on your dashboard.
Session nudge
"Still intentional?" after configurable watch time. Opt-in.
Already use a free blocker?
See what Quiet and Unhook each do, row by row, and where the free ones are all you need.
Quiet vs UnhookTrust a channel? Pause Quiet there in one click.
A small “+ Quiet” button sits next to the channel name on every video. Click it once and that channel is allowlisted. No popup, no typing a name in by hand.
Pricing
Simple pricing.
Free
$0
forever
- All 28 hide switches
- Per-element switches
- Alt+Shift+Q shortcut
- No account needed
Pro
$4.99
/month
or $39.99/year, save 33%
- Everything in Free
- Sync across all your devices
- Schedules for focus hours
- Profiles, presets and up to 10 of your own
- Channel allowlist and blocklist
- Keyword filters
- Daily watch limit and session nudge
- Remote control panel and parent lock
- Weekly stats on your dashboard
Card required. No charge until the trial ends.
FAQ
Questions.
Nothing about what you watch. The extension asks for two Chrome permissions, storage and alarms, and only runs on youtube.com. On the free tier your settings never leave your browser. On Pro, the only thing that syncs is your settings, so they match across devices.
No. Quiet only runs on www.youtube.com and m.youtube.com. YouTube Music and YouTube Studio are deliberately excluded, so your album art and your creator analytics are untouched.
No. Quiet is a browser extension, so it only affects youtube.com in Chrome, Edge, or Brave — it can’t reach the YouTube app on a phone or tablet. If that’s the main way your kid watches, pair Quiet with your phone’s built-in Screen Time or Family Link controls for that device.
Occasionally. We use semantic selectors that survive most UI updates. Any breakage is patched within 48 hours and pushed without a browser update.
Yes. Every Pro plan starts with a 7-day free trial. Add a card to start it, and you won’t be charged until the trial ends. Cancel anytime before then and you pay nothing.
Not from the toolbar. With a Pro schedule, Quiet stays on inside your hours even if you try to turn it off in the popup. To change that, open your dashboard and edit or switch off the schedule. Outside your scheduled hours, the toolbar switch works as normal. If you want it harder to change, add the parent lock, which makes the popup read-only on every signed-in device.
No. Quiet injects a single CSS block before the page renders. Zero measurable impact on load time.
The basic hiding rules keep working forever for free. You lose sync, scheduling, profiles, and stats.