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CustomTube

Choose your own YouTube layout, plus some other settings!

From lightbeam24·Updated May 30, 2026·View on GitHub·

**Note that CustomTube has been discontinued. My current project, StarTube, is the successor, and it requires Vorapis 2013 (V3) to function.** The project is written primarily in CSS, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2023. Key topics include: browser-extension, chrome-addon, chrome-extension, chromium-extension, css.

Latest release: BetaCustomTube 1.3.0 Beta 2
July 18, 2023View Changelog →

CustomTube

Note that CustomTube has been discontinued. My current project, StarTube, is the successor, and it requires Vorapis 2013 (V3) to function.

Download V3: https://vorapis.pages.dev/#/

Download StarTube: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/485622-startube

See discussion for details: https://github.com/lightbeam24/CustomTube/discussions/240


Mainfull

What if you could just CHOOSE your YouTube layout? Well, now you can! CustomTube lets you use almost any YouTube layout from 2008-2021!

Firefox
Chrome

CustomTube does not collect user data. I don't even know how to program that and I wouldn't want to anyway.

Compatible Extensions:

CustomTube is currently only tested with these extensions/scripts:

Return YouTube Dislike

Annotations Restored for YouTube

uBlock Origin

Restore YouTube Username from Handle to Custom

Using it with other extensions or scripts often causes issues and is therefore not recommended.

If you have a user agent switcher installed, make sure it is disabled on youtube.com, as you may not be able to use anything other than the default 2017 layout otherwise.

Screenshots:

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Credits:

Logo made by UnderscoreAngel. Github page

CustomTube shares a small amount of code with YouTube Redux, namely the code for managing user settings.

The beta version makes use of the Return YouTube Dislike API - https://returnyoutubedislike.com

Contributors

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