Knob – Light Mode for YouTube Music by Samyadeep
Adds a clean, custom light theme to YouTube Music with tactile On, System, and Off controls. Hand-crafted CSS for every surface - no inverted-filter hacks. Free and open source.
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About this extension
Knob adds a clean, custom light theme to YouTube Music — something the player still doesn't offer natively. One click and the whole interface turns white: home feed, search, artist and album pages, player bar, queue, menus, comments and settings.
THE KNOB
A tactile dial in the toolbar with three positions:
Your choice is remembered across sessions, and across devices when your browser sync is on.
DESIGNED, NOT INVERTED
Knob isn't a CSS filter that inverts images and breaks icons. Every surface is individually re-themed for light mode: readable text everywhere, light menus and dialogs, dark buttons on light backgrounds, correctly colored icons, themed comments and settings — including video pages, the mini player and search results.
If you listen to YouTube Music at night in a bright room, or simply prefer light interfaces, Knob is the missing toggle.
Permissions explained: "Storage" is used only to remember your On/System/Off preference. No data leaves your browser.
THE KNOB
A tactile dial in the toolbar with three positions:
- On — force the light theme everywhere on YouTube Music
- System — follow your Windows light/dark setting automatically
- Off — back to YouTube Music's own dark theme
Your choice is remembered across sessions, and across devices when your browser sync is on.
DESIGNED, NOT INVERTED
Knob isn't a CSS filter that inverts images and breaks icons. Every surface is individually re-themed for light mode: readable text everywhere, light menus and dialogs, dark buttons on light backgrounds, correctly colored icons, themed comments and settings — including video pages, the mini player and search results.
- No accounts, no tracking, no data collection
- Works only on music.youtube.com — no access to any other site
- Free and open source: https://github.com/isamyadeep/youtube-music-light-mode
If you listen to YouTube Music at night in a bright room, or simply prefer light interfaces, Knob is the missing toggle.
Permissions explained: "Storage" is used only to remember your On/System/Off preference. No data leaves your browser.
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Permissions and data
Required permissions:
- Access your data for music.youtube.com
Optional permissions:
- Access your data for music.youtube.com
Data collection:
- The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.
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- Version
- 0.1.0.4
- Size
- 28.61 KB
- Last updated
- 10 days ago (Nov 5, 2026)
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The package is plain JS/CSS — no build step, no minification; the zip contents match the repo's manifest.json, content/, popup/ and icons/ directly.
How to test: install, open https://music.youtube.com (works signed out), click the Knob toolbar icon, and switch On / System / Off. Browse Home, Search, an artist page, and a video song with comments and the settings dialog to see themed surfaces.
Note: the manifest uses "version_name", a Chromium property Firefox ignores — you may see a cosmetic warning; functionality is unaffected.