Readingfeedfor YouTube™Privacy

Read your feed.
Don’t scroll it.

Readingfeed replaces YouTube’s grid of thumbnails with a quiet list of text — and gives it a bottom, so you reach the end and stop.

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Illustrative example. Note the button: nothing loads as you scroll, so the page has a real bottom instead of a treadmill.

What it changes

Thumbnails stop shouting
Every image is desaturated to grey. Clickbait works through strong imagery — faces, arrows, saturated colour — and grey takes the force out of it without hiding what the video is.
The feed becomes a list
Title, channel, length and age, in a row you can read in one pass. Not a grid of cards you have to look at one by one.
Shorts are gone
The shelf and the sidebar entry, removed. Not collapsed — removed.
The page ends
Loading is a button, never a scroll. Twenty at a time, and then you are finished. This is the part people notice most.

Summaries, before the click

Every row can carry a few lines describing what the video actually covers, so you decide whether it is worth twenty minutes without pressing play. Every other summarising tool works on the video you have already opened — by which point the feed has already won.

They run on Chrome’s built-in model, on your machine. Nothing is sent to us; we have no server to send it to. That is also why they can be unlimited rather than metered by credits — each one costs us nothing.

Worth knowing before you pay. Chrome’s on-device model needs a desktop with roughly 22 GB of free disk and either 4 GB of video memory or 16 GB of RAM. Readingfeed checks your device and will tell you plainly if it cannot run them — and it will not sell you a plan you cannot use.

What it costs

The reading view is free and stays free. The only thing behind a key is the part that uses your machine’s language model.

Free

Free, forever

  • Grey thumbnails
  • The text feed
  • Shorts removed
  • A page that ends
  • Keyboard triage

The whole reading view. No account, no key, no limit.

Trial

30 days

  • Everything in Free
  • On-device summaries

Starts the first time the reader runs, not when you install. No card.

Pro

One key

  • Everything in Free
  • On-device summaries, unlimited
  • Schedules and locked modes

Pricing lands with the store listing.

Questions

Does this actually reduce screen time?
The honest answer: it makes visits shorter, not rarer. Studies of greyscale screens find people spend roughly 20 to 40 minutes less per day, while the number of times they pick the phone up barely moves. Expect calmer, shorter sessions — not a cured habit.
Does YouTube still work normally?
Yes. Rows link to the ordinary watch page, playback, history, subscriptions and comments are untouched, and one switch turns everything off. Readingfeed covers the feed; it does not replace YouTube.
What do you collect?
Nothing. There is no account and no server. If you never enter a licence key, the extension makes no requests to anyone except YouTube. The full policy spells out every storage key and its retention.
Will it work on my phone?
No. Chrome on Android does not support extensions at all, and the on-device model is desktop-only. Windows, macOS and Linux.