At 5,000 videos, YouTube quietly stops saving to Watch Later. YouTube stops saving at 5,000 videos
3-minute demo, played from YouTube
On YouTube: Loads 100 videos at a time. Scroll, wait, scroll again.
With Watch Later Tidy: Syncs your whole list in seconds
On YouTube: No filters. Just a sort menu.
With Watch Later Tidy: Filter by Channel, Topic, Tag, Length, Shorts, Watched, Unavailable
On YouTube: No search. The bar up top searches all of YouTube.
With Watch Later Tidy: Search your own list by title, channel or tag
On YouTube: One video at a time: ⋮ → Remove, again and again.
With Watch Later Tidy: Tick hundreds and bulk-delete them in minutes. ★★★★★580+ videos deleted in just 6 minutes
— Matheus Link, Chrome Web Store
Runs on a computer, in Chrome, Edge or Firefox. Anything you clear there is gone from the YouTube app on your phone too.
Free. Optional Pro from $3.99/month.
Inside the dashboard
Also: export to CSV or JSON, download transcripts in bulk, and send videos to Gemini Notebook.
Watch the demo
Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.
Reviews
"The dev spent DAYS solving why I couldn't get this to work and built a new version that fixed the issue, which is beyond 5-star service! And the plugin itself works PERFECTLY - so grateful for a workaround for Youtube's idiocy!"
"Worked perfectly ! 580+ videos deleted in just 6 minutes ! All I wanted"
"Perfect. I was considering making something like this myself out of frustration, I'm thankful someone already beat me to it. It's wild YouTube hasn't bothered to implement this themselves yet."
"I've been hoping for an extension like this for a long time! Works great and I'm finally organized. Thanks so much!"
"Been looking for an extension like this forever. I don't understand why YouTube has a 5k video limit for Watch Later, but no bulk delete function."
"I've been looking for a tool like this forever - a true time-saver. I really like how the extension will breakdown your list by channel, so that you can see what channels are taking up the most real estate on your list."
"By far the best extension to manage the watch later playlist on youtube, it is really easy to understand and use. Don´t get it? don't worry look the video in this page and that's all, clear as water!"
"this is life saving for an adhd brain like mine. manually categorizing my WL was super tedious."
"Fast and easy to use. Love that you can select videos by topic. Fantastic."
More from the community
"This is the perfect extension that does exactly what it needs to do: index the watch later playlist and be able to sort by channel or topic. And most importantly bulk delete. Couldn't ask for more."
"Literally perfect, does all I need it to."
"Great app,saved me tokens with my agent to create a software like that on my own,thank you very much"
"Top . endlich konnte ich die später ansehen Playlist lehren. danke dir"
"This is actually peak!! Awesome UI and UX!! I've been looking for something that can merge folders for ages now and finally found one that can do it automatically :))) Tysm!"
"Very useful to filter the videos that are really useful from the watch later list and delete the ones that are not! Also, the developer was very kind helping me with a little sync problem"
"Exactly what I was after, thank you very much! Simple to use, does exactly what I need."
"Works really well. I would appreciate a way to make the UI take the whole page so we could see more videos, List view would be nice also And theres a reloading of pages when selecting videos for some reason, unsure if that was added to solve an issue Apart from that its working great How many hours has it taken you to vibecode this one?"
"Best tool for organizing youtube playlists with great UI UX !"
"I had like 5k videos on watch later and lots of them were already not really important or irrelevant at this point, there were also loads of videos I've already watched and this extension has become one of my favorite ways to handle the playlists I use. It's truly amazing, thank you!"
"This is exactly what YouTube is missing. Thank you so much for building such an excellent tool."
"I'm just starting to use the tool, but so far, so excellent."
"Man, exactly what I needed. I move a ton of stuff to Watch Later, with the best of intentions, and they get buried quickly and I forget about them. This helped me do a purge as well as perform a better sorting by moving many to their own playlists."
"Works perfectly! I love the multiple ways to sort the list. Clean and simple UI. I wish something like this existed for the other playlists like 'Favorites' and 'Liked'."
"Это единственное работающее расширение, которое может удалять по фильтру из плейлиста. Перепробовал десятки не удаляют в лучшем случае только сортируют.
This is the only working extension that can remove filters from a playlist. I've tried dozens, but they don't delete them, at best they just sort them."
"ну оно работает, и удобный интерфейс все топ)"
"The most efficient youtube extension ever!"
"Extensionnya work, mantap! Tampilannya mudah dipahami dan mudah digunakan"
"This is a very nice extension. It's quite handy. Note that you have to turn off the ABP (AdBlock Plus) extension if you use it, otherwise this extension( YouTube Watch later tidy), will not work. Nothing will happen when you press the button because it opens in a popup that AddBlock Plus suppresses. Other pop-up stoppers might do the same thing. (Maybe the developer can detect these ad blockers and provide a warning.)"
"Espectacular, gracias. Te hace super simple administrar la lista de "ver mas tarde" y funciona en Brave"
"A much needed tool for someone who hoards watch later videos like crazy."
"複数選択と一括複製/移動/削除!!! 本当に欲していた機能です。
UI, UXともに良好、主要な機能の制限も少なく良心的です。
こういった拡張機能の登場が市場を押し上げるのだと考えます。開発、リリース大変感謝しております！"
"Tolle zusätzliche Filter fürs Löschen, sehr smart gemacht"
"saved me hours! 10/10 would recommend"
"Macht genau was es soll. Danke!"
"i love it but wish i could also use it on playlist i've created not just WATCH LATER"
"Just what I was looking for. Great app!"
"当你看到这段话的时候，说明我对此产品很是满意，后来者可以放心大胆的下载，期待创作者可以不断的update make our life simpler🎉"
"1. when pressing the 3 dots on a singular video have the''add to playlist'' 2. instead of scrolling all the way up to press add playlist, select all or delete, just having it stay on top while scrolling down appart from these qol request. THIS IS THE EXTENTION I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR FOR MY BULKY WATCH LATER PLAYLIST THANK YOU!!"
"We were all waiting for an extension like this. Keep up, great job!"
"The only one that actually worked and was useful."
"YouTube don't provide tools to search within Watch Later, God knows why. I got 1,600 vids in Watch Later [...] But this lets you search within your history and do all sorts of stuff, and it's free."
"Finally — I NEEDED something to categorize my Watch Later videos. So many damn tabs open for later, it was keeping me from using my browser."
"I was literally searching for something like this. I have soooo many Watch later videos."
Why I built this
For years I dumped everything into Watch Later like it was a bottomless pit. Then videos I thought I'd saved stopped showing up: YouTube stops at 5,000, with no warning, and its only fix is removing them one by one. So I built TidyWL, the dashboard I wanted: see which channels fill your list, find anything in it, and clear hundreds at once.
Dominic, indie developer
Runs on a computer, in Chrome, Edge or Firefox. Anything you clear there is gone from the YouTube app on your phone too.
Free. Optional Pro from $3.99/month.
Features
YouTube makes you remove videos one by one. Tick hundreds with checkboxes and clear them in one go.
See your Watch Later organized by channel. Find all the videos from that one YouTuber you binged three months ago in one click.
Not just Watch Later: every playlist you created opens in the same dashboard, with the same search, filters, bulk delete, reorder and export.
NewYears of likes, finally searchable and filterable. Clear likes in bulk too; YouTube uses them to shape your recommendations.
Every video shows the tags its uploader gave it, keywords YouTube stores but never shows. Search them, or click one to filter.
NewPick any number of videos and get one timestamped text file each, named after the video. You are told exactly which ones had no captions.
YouTube silently stops saving videos past 5,000. TidyWL helps you clean out old videos so you can keep adding new ones.
Tick as many playlists as you like and see them merged: one card per video, with a chip for each playlist it lives in. Finally an answer to "which playlist did I put that in?" — and Move takes a video out of every playlist you ticked.
NewSelect as many liked videos as you want and clear them in one pass, with live progress and a stop button. Worth knowing: YouTube uses your likes to shape recommendations.
Push your chosen videos straight into a Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) as sources — a new notebook or one you already have — without leaving the dashboard. It's the one feature that sends any of your YouTube data anywhere: the links you pick go to Google under your own login, and only when you click. Nothing else about your videos ever leaves.
Automatically groups your Watch Later by recurring keywords in titles (e.g. "recipe", "react", "interview"). Click a topic to filter down to it, or hide it to get it out of the way — as many topics as you like. Runs 100% client-side, no API calls, no data sent anywhere.
And everything else you'd expect
Filter watched, unwatched, or unavailable — and drag a slider to set how far through counts as watched. Progress bars on every card.
Progress bar, duration badge, view count, and upload date on every card.
Open all selected videos at once as background tabs. No one-by-one clicking.
See exactly why YouTube's count differs from yours, with a reason shown per hidden video.
Find videos by title, channel, watched status, availability, or duration — preset buckets including Shorts, or your own min/max in minutes. Sort by playlist order, duration, views, published date, channel, or title.
Send videos to the top or bottom in one click, or drag and drop — single or multi-select.
Works on Page (brand-channel) Watch Later playlists too.
Each YouTube account keeps its own separate list.
Move or copy selected videos to any playlist, or create a new one inline. YouTube has no bulk-move at all.
Export to JSON or CSV anytime.
Plus a toolbar that stays put while you scroll, keyboard shortcuts, shift-click selection and filter chips. Works in Chrome, Edge and Firefox on a computer.
Everything above is free, with hand-picked removals capped at 1,000 every 30 days on new installs. Pro removes the cap and adds cleanup rules that run for you, 90-day undo, pinning and saved views, from $3.99 a month.
FAQ
Privacy
No accounts. No server holding your playlist. TidyWL works in your browser with the YouTube session you already have, and your playlist stays on your computer.
Three things do leave. To publish the totals at the top of this page, the extension sends tidywl.com usage counts, such as videos deleted, likes removed and videos moved, with a random install ID. Never which videos, never your playlist, never your Google account. It is always on in Chrome, where uninstalling stops it, and Firefox has a toggle for it. If you subscribe to Pro, your licence key goes to tidywl.com to check that the subscription is live. And Send to Gemini Notebook, which you start yourself, hands the links you picked to Google under your own login. Every detail is in the privacy policy.