A Chrome extension that overlays improved, high-visibility subtitles on YouTube videos. Fixes caption desync at high playback speeds and provides a clean, customizable look.
- Displays captions with better styling and centering
- More accurate syncing even at 2x+ speed
- Automatically works on videos with available subtitles
- Fallback to YouTube's live captions when transcript is unavailable
- Lightweight and does not interfere with normal YouTube functionality
- Clone or download this repository.
- Open Chrome and navigate to
chrome://extensions/ - Enable Developer Mode (toggle in top right).
- Click Load unpacked and select the folder containing this extension's files.
- Visit a YouTube video page. Captions will appear automatically if available.
To change the style of the captions, edit styles.css. You can tweak:
font-size,color,text-shadowfor readability- Positioning with
bottom,left,transform - Caption outline (via multi-layer
text-shadow)
- Language selector UI
- Toggle extension on/off via popup
- Support for caption translation
- Save user preferences
MIT License