SOLOTUBE
coming soon · solotube.xyz
A quiet place to watch

YouTube, without the noise.

SoloTube 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.

Web app · no YouTube login · your data stays with you
00 How it works A web app. No YouTube login, no account hookup — your library lives on your side of the table.
STEP 1

Bring your channels

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.

STEP 2

Watch in the quiet

One feed: only what you follow, newest first. No autoplay, no Shorts, no suggestions waiting in the margins to pull you sideways.

STEP 3

Leave with more than you came for

Notes pinned to the second, AI briefs before you commit, a budget for your attention — and a session that ends when the video does.

01 Built for people who just want to focus.

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.

YOUTUBE IS BUILT TO KEEP YOU WATCHING SOLOTUBE IS BUILT TO LET YOU BE INTENTIONAL
Opens to an infinite wall of suggestionsOpens to the channels you chose, newest first
Thumbnails engineered to out-shout each otherOne quiet list — nothing competes for your eyes
Autoplay decides what's nextYou decide what's next — the session ends with the video
Your history feeds the recommendation machineYour history feeds your notes and your stats
Recommendations are pushed at you, alwaysSuggestions only when you ask — then they're gone
Success is measured in hours watchedSuccess is watching what you meant to watch
02 Your feed is a reading list, not a slot machine. Every video from every channel you follow, newest first. Zen mode strips the thumbnails entirely — browse by title only, the quietest feed there is. Watched videos dim and get out of the way.
solotube.xyz/feed
All Channels Zen Mode · Thumbnails off
New · Unwatched (4)
01
3BLUE1BROWN · 2H AGO
But what is a neural network?
19:13 · 14M VIEWS
NEW
02
3BLUE1BROWN · 1D AGO
Visualizing quaternions — an explorable video series
31:52 · 8.4M VIEWS
03
WENDOVER · 3D AGO
Why Every City's Transit System Fails at the Same Thing
24:08 · 4.2M VIEWS
NEW
04
PRACTICAL ENG. · 5D AGO
How Concrete Became the World's Most Important Material
18:44 · 3.1M VIEWS
Earlier · Watched (2)
05
CGP GREY · 14D AGO
Rules for Rulers
18:25 · WATCHED
06
KURZGESAGT · 21D AGO
The Largest Star in the Universe — Size Comparison
9:17 · PROGRESS 74%
03 Watch like you read — pen in hand. Notes pin to the exact second on a timeline you can see. Recommendations exist only as a box you open, and close.
Notes · pinned to the timeline
0:0010:3321:0631:3942:11
1 2 3
01:32Map of the fiber routes — pause here, the visual is dense.
09:00Quote about latency budgets. Pull this for the essay.
GENCompare with the 2024 undersea cable piece — same thesis, better sources here.

Timestamped or general — your notes live with the video, jump to the second, and export with you.

◢ Scout · recommendations on your terms
patient explanations of analog electronics… Scout
01 Mr Carlson's Lab@MrCarlsonsLab
Restorations narrated like a fireside chat — circuit theory at a walking pace.
follow →
02 w2aew@w2aew
One concept per video, one oscilloscope, zero filler.
follow →
03 Fran Blanche@FranLab
Workbench wandering through vintage test gear and space-era electronics.
follow →

You ask. It answers. Then it's gone. Nothing is ever pushed into your feed by itself.

Sound like your kind of quiet? Early access opens soon — first invites go out in order.
04 Built for intention, end to end.
/01
AI brief, before you press play
A short, calm summary — S, M or L — so you can decide if a video deserves 42 minutes of your life. Optional, always.
/02
Scout
Recommendations as a tool you pick up, not a current that drags you. Open the box, ask, decide, close the box.
Anti-algorithm
/03
Zen mode
One key strips the page to the video and your notes. Then keep paring — stats, badges, headers — until only what serves focus remains.
Full focus
/04
Thumbnails, optional
Thumbnails are YouTube's loudest pixels. Turn them off and browse by title alone — the quietest feed there is.
/05
Attention budget
Set a daily viewing intention. When you pass it, SoloTube says so — quietly. A nudge, never a lock.
/06
Your time, reflected
See where your attention actually goes — and which subscriptions are dead weight. Reflection, not vanity metrics.
/07
Bring your library with you
Import playlists by link, or your whole subscription list from Google Takeout — choosing, channel by channel, what deserves to come along.
/08
Save from YouTube
A browser extension: right-click any video on YouTube and send it here — to watch intentionally, later, without the noise.
Extension
/09
Just this video
Paste a video link and keep only that video — no obligation to follow the whole channel. Your feed stays curated.
On the roadmap /10 Phone-first — works on your phone from day one, installs to your home screen; a native app if you ask loudly enough /11 Agent access — let your AI tools drop videos in and search your notes (MCP)
05 The rules we won't break.
R-01Nothing enters your feed uninvited.No suggested videos, no trending tab
R-02The session always ends.No autoplay, no infinite scroll
R-03Your notes belong to you.Plain data, exportable, portable
R-04Metrics serve reflection, not retention.No streaks, no badges, no guilt
solotube.xyz · opening soon

Watch less. Keep more.

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