Comparison
Quiet vs Unhook
Short answer
If all you want is to hide parts of YouTube, both do it for free and Unhook is a proven choice: its 26 options cover almost everything Quiet’s 28 switches do. Choose Quiet if hiding isn’t enough: if you want to block particular channels or words, keep the blocker on during set hours, or set the rules on a child’s browser from your own. Those are in Quiet Pro, and Unhook doesn’t offer them.
Hiding parts of YouTube
Free in both, and close to identical. This is not the reason to pick one over the other.
| Feature | Quiet | Unhook |
|---|---|---|
| Homepage feed, Shorts, recommended videos | ||
| Comments, live chat, the playlist panel | ||
| End screens and end-screen cards | ||
| Mixes, merch and fundraiser shelves | ||
| Explore and trending, “More from YouTube”, Subscriptions | ||
| Extra rows in search results | ||
| A video’s buttons, channel row and description | ||
| The top bar and the notification bell | ||
| Autoplay off, info cards hidden | ||
| Open Subscriptions in place of the homepage | ||
| Commenters’ profile photos | ||
| Video thumbnails | ||
| View and like counts, on their own | Hides a video’s whole info block instead | |
| Search suggestions, community posts |
Choosing what you see
Hiding a section of the page doesn’t stop one channel or one topic appearing in the sections that are left.
| Feature | Quiet | Unhook |
|---|---|---|
| Block a channel everywhere | Pro | |
| Block videos by a word in the title | Pro | |
| Pause the blocker on channels you trust | Pro |
Keeping it on
Both have an off switch one click away. Only one can take that click away from you for a while.
| Feature | Quiet | Unhook |
|---|---|---|
| Schedules that hold it on during set hours | Pro | |
| Focus sessions that lock it on | Pro | |
| A daily watch limit | Pro | |
| Saved profiles to switch between | Pro |
More than one browser, more than one person
Unhook follows you between Chrome browsers for free. Quiet needs an account for that, and the account is what a parent’s controls run on.
| Feature | Quiet | Unhook |
|---|---|---|
| Settings follow you to another browser | Pro, with a Quiet account, across Chrome, Edge and Brave | Free, through the browser’s own sync |
| Change settings from a web dashboard | Pro | |
| Lock a child’s settings from your own device | Pro, a soft lock | |
| Email when a locked browser stops checking in | Pro | |
| Works with no account | The free extension |
What each one costs
| Unhook | Free. Supported by donations. |
|---|---|
| Quiet | Free, with no account, for all 28 hiding switches. |
| Quiet Pro | $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year, after a 7-day free trial. Everything marked Pro above. Cancel and the free switches keep working. |
When Unhook is all you need
- You want YouTube’s feed and recommendations gone and nothing more.
- You trust yourself to leave the switches where you set them.
- You use Chrome signed in, so your settings already follow you.
When Quiet is worth it
- One channel or one topic keeps finding its way back onto the page.
- You turn the blocker off when you’re tired, and want it to say no.
- The browser belongs to a child, and the settings shouldn’t.
Checked on 12 October 2026 against Unhook 1.6.9 from the Chrome Web Store, by reading the extension itself, and against Quiet 1.2.0. Quiet has 13 rows here that Unhook doesn’t, and Unhook has 1 that Quiet doesn’t. Neither can reach the YouTube app on a phone. The parent lock is a soft lock: it stops settings being changed in the popup, not the extension being removed, which is why it emails you. If something here is out of date, tell us and it will be corrected. Quiet is not affiliated with Unhook, YouTube or Google; Unhook is the name of its own makers’ product.