Studio Focus

Check your channel.
Skip the feed.

You open YouTube to look at your stats, and an hour later you are watching something else. Studio Focus covers everything that is not about running your channels.

Get it on GitHub How it works

What stays open, what is covered

Always open

YouTube Studio, analytics, content and comments. The channel switcher and account pages.

Your channels

List your @handles or channel IDs in the popup. Their pages on youtube.com stay visible.

Covered in white

Home feed, watch pages, Shorts, search and other people's channels. Videos are paused.

Escape hatch

Need a page for real? Unlock for 5 minutes, or pause the extension for 15.

Install

  1. Download or clone the repository.
  2. Open chrome://extensions and turn on Developer mode.
  3. Click "Load unpacked" and choose the studio-focus folder.

Chrome, Edge, Brave and other Chromium browsers. No network requests, no tracking. Settings stay on your device.