Safari extension · macOS
YouTube, but 3× faster
YTX3 lives in your Safari toolbar and pushes any YouTube or HTML5 video past the 2× ceiling — without Premium, accounts, or extensions you have to configure
YTX3 lives in your Safari toolbar and pushes any YouTube or HTML5 video past the 2× ceiling — without Premium, accounts, or extensions you have to configure
Demo
A quick walkthrough of the full flow in Safari — open a video, click the toolbar icon, slide the speed up to 3×
Desktop preview
Quick to reach, visually quiet, and tuned for people browsing with a trackpad and keyboard
What you get
How fast do you want to watch — that's the whole product. No menus, no settings, no learning curve
YouTube caps native playback at 2×. YTX3 controls the underlying video element, so you can push past it on every site
The slider lives one click away in your Safari toolbar. Drag, release, watch — no tabs, no shortcuts, no popups stacked on popups
No account, no API keys, no permission theatre. Install from the Mac App Store, enable in Safari settings, done
Install
YTX3 ships through the Mac App Store and runs entirely inside Safari — no background daemons, no auto-update services
One-time purchase — the extension installs alongside a tiny host app
Open Safari → Settings → Extensions and tick YTX3 — takes one click
Click the YTX3 icon in the toolbar, slide from 1.00× to 3.00×, the video reacts instantly
Questions
Yes — and on any HTML5 video that plays in Safari. If you can scrub it, YTX3 can speed it up
No. YTX3 controls the video element directly in your browser, independent of YouTube's own player settings
Safari's native time-stretching keeps speech intelligible up to 3× — it sounds fast, not robotic
YTX3 doesn't collect data, doesn't phone home, and doesn't need an account. It only changes playback speed on the page you're on
Safari 17 and later on macOS. The extension is distributed through the Mac App Store and updates with macOS
Install YTX3 once, reclaim hours of your week
