Best alternatives to Progress Bar - Sweet Progress Bar for YouTube (2026)
9 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Progress Bar, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.
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Progress Bar alternatives, compared
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Custom Progress Bar for YouTube™
Change Youtube™ progress bar to custom from fun collection. Make your Youtube™ player awesome!
≈200K users4.6★ from 3.5K ratingsUpdated 3 weeks ago15 permissions- About 100× more users than Progress Bar
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (15 vs 2)
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Permanent Progress Bar for YouTube
Always display a tiny progress bar with buffer loading on YouTube's player even in the fullscreen mode
≈10K users4.2★ from 83 ratingsUpdated 8 months ago2 permissions- About 5.0× more users than Progress Bar
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Nyan Cat Progress Bar for YouTube™ (2025)
Replaces the YouTube progress bar with a Nyan Cat animation.
≈5K users5.0★ from 12 ratingsUpdated 17 months ago3 permissions- About 2.5× more users than Progress Bar
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (3 vs 2)
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Random color for YouTube's progress bar
Change red color for a random of the YouTube's progress bar
546 users3.5★ from 6 ratingsUpdated 19 months ago1 permissions- About 3.7× fewer users than Progress Bar
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 2)
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Nyan Cat Progress Bar
Replace your YT Progress Bar with a Nyan Cat Progress Bar
215 users5.0★ from 4 ratingsNo special permissions- About 9.3× fewer users than Progress Bar
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 2)
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Youtube TV On PC
Enables Youtube TV with auto HD on your pc so you can control youtube from your mobile device.
≈100K users4.3★ from 297 ratingsUpdated 16 months ago2 permissions- About 50× more users than Progress Bar
- Updated less recently
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Youtube-shorts block
Play the Youtube shorts video as if it were a normal video.
≈400K users4.5★ from 1.1K ratingsUpdated 11 months ago1 permissions- About 200× more users than Progress Bar
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 2)
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Free YouTube Premium Logo
Replace the YouTube logo with the premium one — completely free, forever. Lightweight, private, no tracking.
≈2K users4.8★ from 67 ratingsUpdated 3 months ago6 permissions- A similar number of users to Progress Bar
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (6 vs 2)
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YouTube Popout Player
Provides simple ways to open any YouTube video or playlist in a configurable popout window
≈70K users3.5★ from 151 ratingsUpdated 11 months ago6 permissions- About 35× more users than Progress Bar
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (6 vs 2)
Progress Bar alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to Progress Bar?
By users, the most popular alternative is Youtube-shorts block with ≈400K users and a 4.5-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Custom Progress Bar for YouTube™.
Which Progress Bar alternative has the best rating?
Free YouTube Premium Logo has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.8 out of 5 from 67 ratings.
Is there a Progress Bar alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
Nyan Cat Progress Bar asks for 0 permissions, against 2 for Progress Bar.
How many alternatives to Progress Bar are there?
We list 9 close alternatives to Progress Bar on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.
Users and ratings are the figures shown on the Chrome Web Store, re-checked continuously. Alternatives are matched on name, description, category and topic. Browse best-of lists by niche.