Best alternatives to SwipeTube (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to SwipeTube, 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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stopRU for YouTube
Remove Russian videos from your YouTube. Install once — it works on its own.
≈20K users4.4★ from 390 ratingsUpdated 3 months ago2 permissions- About 5.0× more users than SwipeTube
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 6)
- Listed under Tools
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ShortsBlocker - Remove Shorts from YouTube
Remove Shorts videos from Youtube
≈100K users4.2★ from 929 ratingsUpdated 13 days ago2 permissions- About 25× more users than SwipeTube
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 6)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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YouTube Tags Viewer
Displays all tags from a YouTube video in a popup.
681 usersNot rated yet3 permissions- About 5.9× fewer users than SwipeTube
- Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 6)
- Listed under Tools
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No YouTube Shorts
Removes all Shorts from YouTube
≈100K users4.6★ from 614 ratingsUpdated 22 months ago4 permissions- About 25× more users than SwipeTube
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 6)
- Listed under Accessibility
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Youtube-shorts block
Play the Youtube shorts video as if it were a normal video.
≈400K users4.1★ from 1.1K ratingsUpdated 12 months ago1 permissions- About 100× more users than SwipeTube
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 6)
- Listed under Just for Fun
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Youtube float video
Youtube float video
745 users3.5★ from 4 ratingsUpdated 17 months ago2 permissions- About 5.4× fewer users than SwipeTube
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 6)
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Youtube Playlist Exporter
Easy extract and export information from YouTube playlists into CSV
≈10K users1.5★ from 36 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years1 permissions- About 2.5× more users than SwipeTube
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 6)
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YouTube Blocker
Block non-educational YouTube videos
≈20K users4.5★ from 39 ratingsUpdated 8 months ago6 permissions- About 5.0× more users than SwipeTube
- Updated more recently
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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YouTube Advanced Playlist Export
Export detailed information from YouTube playlists in various formats.
≈4K users2.8★ from 24 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years1 permissions- A similar number of users to SwipeTube
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 6)
- Listed under Tools
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Less Mixes for YouTube
Prevent YouTube Mix generation for music videos
≈20K users4.5★ from 318 ratingsUpdated 3 weeks ago3 permissions- About 5.0× more users than SwipeTube
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 6)
- Listed under Functionality & UI
SwipeTube alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to SwipeTube?
By users, the most popular alternative is Youtube-shorts block with ≈400K users and a 4.1-star rating. The closest match by what it does is stopRU for YouTube.
Which SwipeTube alternative has the best rating?
No YouTube Shorts has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.6 out of 5 from 614 ratings.
Is there a SwipeTube alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
Youtube-shorts block asks for 1 permissions, against 6 for SwipeTube.
How many alternatives to SwipeTube are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to SwipeTube 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.