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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.
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.
Timestamped or general — your notes live with the video, jump to the second, and export with you.
You ask. It answers. Then it's gone. Nothing is ever pushed into your feed by itself.
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