Built because YouTube's own tools were never enough.

Origin

One person. 1,400 subscriptions. No good way to manage any of it.

YouTube's Watch Later list caps out at 5,000 videos. Playlists have no search. Subscriptions have no folders. If you follow more than a hundred channels, the feed is effectively useless — the algorithm decides what you see, not the channels you actually care about.

That was the starting point. Not a market analysis, not a funded product brief — just the daily friction of someone who uses YouTube as a primary information source and kept losing things. The first version of YouTube Bookmark Pro was a personal fix: a side panel that let you save and retrieve videos without relying on YouTube's feed or their capped Watch Later.

The extension grew from there. The Pro tier emerged when subscription management became its own problem. The Creator tier came later, when it became clear that the tools creators already pay for — TubeBuddy, vidIQ, Spotter Studio — were answering questions with generic benchmarks instead of data from the creator's own channel.

Philosophy

Three things we won't compromise on.

These aren't marketing bullets. They're the constraints that shaped every feature decision since day one.

Constraints

What we deliberately don't do.

Knowing what a product won't do is as important as knowing what it will. Here's our list.

• No telemetry harvesting. We don't log which videos you save, what you search for, or how you use the panel. Stripe handles billing data. That's the only third party with your information.
• No AI prescriptions. We don't use LLMs to tell you what kind of videos to make or which trends to chase. The Pattern Kit and Compare tools show you your own data. The creative call is yours.
• No growth hacks. We don't help you game the algorithm. We help you understand your own performance. If a tactic isn't working, the data should tell you — not a guru's newsletter.
• No mobile app — yet. YouTube Bookmark Pro is desktop-first. The side panel experience requires a browser. A mobile companion is on the roadmap, but we won't ship it until it's actually useful.
• No VC funding. This is an independent product. Revenue comes from subscriptions through Stripe. No investor requires us to monetize your data or inflate feature counts to hit a roadmap slide.

The team

Small, independent, not going anywhere.

What's next

Three things on the near-term roadmap.

We don't publish quarterly OKRs or a public Trello board with 200 cards. Here are three things actively in progress.

• 1

  Compare + Strategist v2 with niche benchmarks

  The current Compare tool shows you how your channel stacks up against channels you select manually. v2 adds niche-level benchmarks — so you can see where your retention and CTR sit relative to channels in the same category, not just the ones you already know about.

• 2

  Pattern Kit retention prediction

  Pattern Kit currently identifies structural patterns in your best and worst-performing videos. The next version adds a predictive layer: given a video's thumbnail text, hook length, and topic cluster, what retention curve are you most likely to see? Based entirely on your own historical data — no cross-channel inference.

• 3

  Public API for researchers and power users

  A read-only API to export your YBP library data — bookmarks, folders, tags, channel metadata — in structured JSON. Aimed at researchers, analysts, and developers who want to build on top of their own YouTube data without scraping.