True Watch Time
See real time left on YouTube at any speed
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See real time left on YouTube at any speed
3 followers
YouTube's timer is wrong when you watch at 1.5× or 2×. True Watch Time fixes it. See the real time remaining, the exact clock time your video ends, and total playlist progress — all adjusted for your playback speed. Lightweight and free. Just a clean overlay on the YouTube player.
Hey PH 👋
I'm Ash. I built True Watch Time because I kept running into the same problem while watching podcasts and YouTube courses at 1.5× or 2×.
The "12 minutes left" YouTube shows is wrong at higher speeds — it's still calculating from the real-time duration. So if I had a meeting in 15 minutes, I couldn't actually tell if I'd finish the lecture in time without doing the math in my head.
So I built a small extension that just does the math for you.
What it does:
– Shows real time remaining, adjusted for your playback speed
– Shows the actual clock time your video will end (helpful when you're squeezing a lesson in before a meeting)
– Tracks playlist progress across remaining videos in a course
– Detects live streams and shows a LIVE badge instead
It's free, no tracking, no remote servers. Permissions are just storage and youtube.com.
Would love feedback — especially edge cases I might've missed.
Happy launch day to everyone shipping today!