Better YouTube Live Better YouTube Live

Productivity
Version: 1.0.17
Last Update: 2023-03-28

Overview

Better YouTube Live is a Chrome extension developed by Better Youtube Live. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Better YouTube Live is 1.0.17, updated on 2023-03-28.
1,000+ users have installed this extension. 25 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .
developer website: betteryoutube.live

Better chat experience and a simpler stream directory on YouTube Live and YouTube Gaming

Better YouTube Live is a browser extension, that strives to level up YouTube Live by augmenting it with a better, more customisable chat, a new homepage for followed streams, desktop notifications, and much more.

Better YouTube Live is a browser extension that enhances both YouTube Live and YouTube Gaming with features that enrich the experience of every viewer and chatter.

It does so by allowing the user to customise the most important aspects of YouTube Live, the chat and the streams directory.

Key features of Better YouTube Live are:

1. Customisable chat - You can change the look and the interface of the YouTube Live and YouTube Gaming chat, by tweaking each option to your liking

2. Chat themes - If tweaking each and every option (out of the 50+), is not your cup of tea then you can select one of the pre-defined themes that customise your chat in an instant

3. New homepage for followed streams - Every stream you follow via this extension shows up on the new homepage for livestreams that we create for you. No more do you have to look all over YouTube Live or YouTube Gaming to find your favourite streams.

4. Notifications - As soon as one of you favourited streams goes live, you get a desktop notification that informs you! No more missing emails, or notifications that pop up after 15 minutes!

5. Live status popup - If you pin our extension in the browser toolbar, then with just one click you can check the status of your followed streams, whether they are live or offline. This popup gives you the perfect small window that shows live streams at the top, and offline streams at the bottom, along with the latest streams your streamer had, for such a convenient access to VODs - and all of this while you're not even on YouTube!

6. BTTV global emotes - Currently the chat is capable of rendering global BTTV (Better TTV / Better Twitch TV) emotes, with support for FFZ (FrankerFaceZ) and 7TV coming very soon!

Oh and don't be confused, this extension works for both YouTube Live and YouTube Gaming, so it might as well be called Better YouTube Live and Better YouTube Gaming, but we had to settle for one name.

For more details on where to find us, read on below:

Be sure to check out our website (https://www.betteryoutube.live) for a more streamlined introduction to the Better YouTube Live project.

Also follows us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/BetterYTLive) for updates on upcoming releases and join our Discord (https://discord.com/bjB4qerC3p) if you have any questions, ideas or bugs to report.

This project has an open roadmap and is community driven, so be sure to check out our list of planned and upcoming features (https://trello.com/b/RlKMmGsD/better-youtube-live).

Better Youtube Live team

Rating

25 ratings

Total Installs

1,000+

Information

Last Update

2023-03-28

Current Version

1.0.17

Size

761KiB

Author

Better Youtube Live

Website

betteryoutube.live

Category

Productivity

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avatar Lukeniter plus
2022-03-23

Doesn't send me the email verification

avatar Rayn
2022-03-01

Good, solid add-on! One suggestion, make features for mod comments. I follow a channel that occasionally has mods that submit helpful comments in chat. Thank!

avatar Rafi Ashari
2022-02-18

So this is my first time ever writing a review on an extension. I must admit, this extension is a Godsend in the terrible realm that is Youtube live chat. I like everything about this extension but there's just one thing that is extremely troublesome. This extension does not play nice with extensions like BTTV and 7TV.

If you have these extensions installed in your browser, the BYL extension will bug out and will not display the text on Youtube live chat. The new BYL chat UI will still work, but just won't show the texts. Same thing will also happen if you have any extension that changes the Youtube live theater mode to mimic that of Twitch's. For cases with extensions that changes Youtube live theater mode to mimic Twitch, the extension will bug out and get overwritten by these theater mode extensions and reverting both the chat UI and texts to Youtube's original UI.

So devs, to reproduce the bugs: simply have extensions that changes the Youtube live theater mode to mimic that of Twitch and or install the BTTV or 7TV extension and enable them for Youtube. Lately 7TV added a "True Theater Mode" function for Youtube users and that also bugs out the text in BYL.

avatar 4DMT_09_CAI, JUSTYN DAVE
2022-01-06

love it! will there be an update in the theater mode? other theater mode extensions does not work well with this extension. Thank you! will use this extension from now on

avatar Evan Henry
2021-12-28

Super easy to use and customize to your personal preferences.

Would give it 5 stars but I wish there was a pop out chat feature.