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SOLOTUBESoloTube is a calmer YouTube client: one quiet, date-sorted feed of only the channels you choose. Notes pin to the exact second of the video, an AI brief sizes a video up before you commit 40 minutes, and the session ends when you say so.
One quiet, date-sorted feed of only the channels you chose. Thumbnails can stay as they are, render as generative art, or switch off entirely — whichever keeps you reading rather than clicking.
Paste any channel or video link, import a playlist, or drop in your Google Takeout subscriptions — choosing, one by one, what deserves to come along.
One feed: only what you follow, newest first. No autoplay, no Shorts, no suggestions waiting in the margins to pull you sideways.
Notes pinned to the second, AI briefs before you commit, a budget for your attention — and a session that ends when the video does.
You open YouTube to learn something. The thumbnails get louder every year, the FOMO piles up, and every video spawns three rabbit trails — until forty minutes are gone and you've forgotten why you came. If you've felt that, this is for you.
Notes pin to the exact second. Timestamped or general — they live with the video, jump to the moment, and export with you.
Scout is a box you open, and close. You ask, it answers, then it is gone — nothing is ever pushed into your feed by itself.
The AI brief, in full: what the video is about, what you will take away, and whether it is worth your time — before you press play.
Where the time actually went — measured only while a video is playing, so the number means something. No streaks, no badges, nothing to keep up.
SoloTube is a progressive web app. Open it in your phone’s browser, add it to the home screen, and it opens full-screen like any other app — same quiet feed, same notes. No app store, nothing to install, nothing to update.
I used to open YouTube to watch one video and lose 90 minutes. SoloTube doesn't fight you — it just doesn't work against you. The difference is quiet.
The timestamped notes changed how I learn from video. Pin a thought without breaking focus. I exported a month of notes and found three ideas I'd completely forgotten making.
I follow 30 channels. SoloTube shows me the 4 videos this week that I actually care about. Everything else just disappears. That disappearing is the whole product.
Setting a 45-minute intention and having the app actually respect it — not nudge me back in — was the thing I didn't know I needed.
For people who love YouTube — but hate what it's become.
"I kept forgetting why I'd opened YouTube. So I'm building the version that remembers." — Don · building SoloTube slowly