Playlist Wrangler by naxatar.com

Playlist Wrangler organizes the YouTube playlists you already have. Scan a playlist once and every video in it is searchable, filterable, sorted into categories automatically, and ready to be moved, removed or played in bulk. Free, no sign-in, and the index stays in your browser.

WHAT IT DOES

Find
- Search every video by title, across all the playlists you have scanned at once, accents and case ignored
- Filter by category, channel, captions and language, and by length, age, views, likes and like rate on bars you tap or drag across
- Tell Shorts from videos, and save a set of filters as a view you open in one click
- Sort by newest, oldest, longest, shortest, most liked, likes per view, or shuffle

Sort automatically
- Every video is filed by topic, music genre, film and TV genre, format, mood and language: 252 categories and 40 languages, worked out on your device
- Nothing to label by hand, and not a paid upgrade. Add or remove categories of your own, in bulk

Clean up
- Filter by how much of each video you have watched, and mark videos unwatched in bulk, which clears the red progress bar
- Find videos saved in more than one playlist
- Select many, then add, move or remove them across playlists, with undo

Play
- Play a filtered set from any row, or pick videos and play them in the order you picked
- Play next and Add to queue onto YouTube's real queue, and play your songs on YouTube Music
- Send what you picked to your phone with a QR code, with nothing to sign into there

Save and keep
- A + button on any thumbnail saves to any playlist. Paste a list of links to import them. Export any view to CSV
- With the sidebar and a YouTube tab open, it keeps in step with YouTube: changes you make there show within a couple of minutes
- Keep the title of a video YouTube deletes, and get a warning before a playlist hits the 5,000-video cap

HOW IT WORKS

Scan any playlist, Watch Later and Liked videos included, from the sidebar's Manage tab or with "Scan this playlist" on its YouTube page. Every video is read through the YouTube session you are already signed into. No sign-in of its own, no OAuth, no API key, no quota. The sidebar fills with your videos, already sorted: the first in seconds, the rest as they are read.

The categories are worked out on your device from what each video says about itself, so some will be off. Every one can be edited or removed by hand, in bulk if you like, and anything you set yourself is never overwritten. The music side is built for the whole of YouTube rather than one country's charts, so a Sertanejo track or a Tamil film song lands as precisely as a house track does.

QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK

Can you search inside a YouTube playlist?
Yes. YouTube gives you no search box inside a playlist. This scans it once, then searches every title in it, across every playlist you have scanned.

How do I mark a video as unwatched?
Select the videos and choose Mark unwatched. The red bar is drawn from your watch history, so it removes those videos from that history, in bulk. It counts them before it asks, and it cannot be undone, which it says before you click.

Is it free?
Yes. As of October 2026 it is free and ad-free, with no paid tier. The automatic categorization is part of the free extension.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

Everything it scans lives in your browser's local storage, on your machine. There is no account to create. Your playlists, channels and likes stay in your browser, and nothing the extension sends names you. What reaches naxatar.com is an anonymous install id, the version and, if you leave analytics on, counts like "a playlist was scanned". Never a title, a channel or a playlist. An email address or a feedback message leaves only if you send one. See it for yourself at naxatar.com/products/playlist-wrangler/privacy. It changes YouTube only when you ask: playlist edits, likes through Liked videos, and Mark unwatched. It never subscribes or comments.

WHAT IT DOES NOT DO

It does not organize your channel subscriptions or your home feed. It does not download videos, block ads, or replace YouTube Premium. It cannot bring back a video that has been deleted or made private, though it still shows you the row so you know what you lost. It is an unofficial extension built on top of a site that changes without warning, so a YouTube redesign can break a feature until it is fixed. When something cannot be read, it is built to do nothing rather than break the page you are on.

WORKS ON

Firefox, as a sidebar. The same extension also runs in Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Brave as a side panel, and in Opera and Arc as a window of its own (experimental). If you browse YouTube inside a Multi-Account Container, it uses the session belonging to that tab.

Free and ad-free. Learn more at naxatar.com/products/playlist-wrangler.

Note: "YouTube" is used only to indicate compatibility. Playlist Wrangler is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google.