Free · Works on every YouTube video

Stop losing the
exact moment that mattered.

YT Bookmarks drops a pin on the timestamp, not just the video. Tag it, note it, file it into a collection — find it again in two seconds flat.

★★★★★ Built for people with 400 open tabs No account needed Your data stays on your device
Now bookmarking — "Building a Synth From Scratch"
14:52 / 38:10
4:02
Oscillator circuit explained
electronics
10:18
Filter cutoff — the part I always forget
synths
14:52
Parts list flashes on screen — pause here
shopping-list
24:30
Soldering technique close-up
electronics
Hover a pin · this is what every bookmark you save looks like
Manifest V3 · current Chrome standard Works offline · local storage only Zero tracking · no analytics SDK ~40KB · lighter than a single thumbnail
0:00 What it does

Everything you wish YouTube's history tab actually did.

History remembers that you watched something. YT Bookmarks remembers why.

🔖

One click, mid-video

A bookmark button sits right in YouTube's own action bar. Click it without pausing, without losing your place.

Saves the exact timestamp

Not "this video" — this second of this video. Jump straight back to 14:52, every time.

🏷

Tags, not just folders

Channel auto-tagging plus your own custom tags, so one video can live in three contexts at once.

🔍

Search across titles, notes, channels, and tags at once

Typed a half-remembered phrase from a note you left three weeks ago? That's enough — the search bar covers everything you've ever written about a video, not just its title.

📁

Colour-coded collections

Group bookmarks the way you actually think — "React Tutorials," "Recipes," "Stuff for the move" — each with its own colour.

It looks and feels like part of YouTube — because it lives right next to the rest of your toolbar.

No new tab, no separate app to remember. Open the popup, and every bookmark you've ever saved is sitting there, searchable, sortable, ready.

Sort by newest, oldest, A–Z, channel, or duration
Filter instantly by tag with one tap
Export everything to JSON, import it back anywhere
A "Recent" tab that quietly tracks what you've watched, in case you forgot to bookmark it
2:14 How it works

Three steps. None of them interrupt the video.

01

Watch normally

Install the extension once. From then on, every YouTube video you open quietly gets a 🔖 Bookmark button next to Like and Share.

02

Click when it matters

Hit the button the second something's worth remembering. The timestamp, title, and channel save themselves — you don't type a thing.

03

Find it in seconds

Open the popup later, search or filter by tag, and click straight back to that exact second — no scrubbing through 40 minutes to find it again.

5:40 Who's using it
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I have eleven tabs open right now because I never bookmarked the right second. This fixed that in a day.

Self-taught developer
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My "watch later" list was a graveyard. Collections actually got me back into videos I'd saved months ago.

Grad student
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The auto-tag-by-channel thing sounds small until you've got 200 bookmarks and it's the only reason they're sorted.

Home cook, recipe hoarder
8:05 Questions

Before you ask in the reviews

Locally, on your own device, using Chrome's storage API. Nothing is sent to a server, and there's no account to create or sign into.

It works on any standard YouTube watch page. The bookmark button is injected into the page itself, so it shows up next to YouTube's own Like and Share buttons.

Yes — export everything to a single JSON file from Settings, then import that file on the new machine. Nothing is lost in the move.

The extension only activates on watch pages and does one small thing: adds a button and watches for the page to change. There's no background process running while you're not on YouTube.

Yes, fully — no premium tier, no upsell, no ads. It does one job and does it without asking for anything in return.

Your next "wait, where was that part?" ends here.

Add it once. Bookmark forever.