Appearance
Languages

YouTube watch time tracker: how to follow your watch time

Quick answer

YouTube doesn’t track your watch time over time. There’s a companion tool for YouTube, TubeWrapped, that measures every day the time you actually spend watching videos, ads excluded, and lets you follow how it changes week after week. To use it, install the extension for free on a desktop browser (Chrome, Edge, Brave or Opera).

Example YouTube Wrapped

Why track your time on YouTube?

One video leads to another, and the hours fly by. Tracking your watch time means seeing in black and white how much room YouTube takes in your days, spotting the days you watch the most and seeing whether your habits change.

YouTube keeps no total of your time. TubeWrapped measures it for you, day after day, and keeps the whole history.

Your time, tracked day after day

  • Every dayYour watch time for the day, updated every two hours.
  • Every weekYour weekly total and your daily average.
  • Evolution chartYour time day by day and month by month, to see the trends.
  • Activity calendarA heatmap of the year to spot your busiest days.
  • StreaksYour longest streak of consecutive days on YouTube.
  • Record dayThe day you watched the most, with its total.

Ads are never counted, and you can include or remove Shorts from your time.

Compare your weeks and months

Every total is compared with the previous period: more or less time than last week? Than last month? You see it at a glance, with the increase or decrease shown.

Share and compare your Wrapped with friends

TubeWrapped is also a small social network around YouTube: pick a username, add your friends and see what they watch.

  • Add friends by searching for their username.
  • Compare your stats: watch time, videos watched, favorite creators.
  • Share your Wrapped as a single image on social media.
  • Public or private account: you decide who sees your stats.

How to track your YouTube time with TubeWrapped

TubeWrapped is a browser extension. Once installed, it uses what you watch on YouTube to calculate your watch time day after day, among other things. There’s nothing to export or set up: three steps are enough.

Get my YouTube Wrapped

What happens next?

Nothing else to do. Keep watching YouTube as usual and your stats update on their own: the extension syncs automatically every two hours. Switch between the Year and Month views to follow how your habits change.

Explore more

Frequently asked questions

Install the TubeWrapped extension on your computer: it measures your watch time every day and shows how it changes by week, by month and over the year.

No. TubeWrapped only counts the time a video is actually playing, ads excluded.

The extension syncs automatically every two hours, with nothing for you to do.

Yes. Every total is compared with the previous period, so you see whether you watch more or less than before.

Yes. The extension is installed on a computer, but once your Wrapped is created, you can go to the TubeWrapped website on your phone, sign in and see your Wrapped.

Yes: the extension is free and shows your time for every day and every week. The full Wrapped for the year and each month is available as an option.
Get my YouTube Wrapped Get my YouTube Wrapped

Contact

A question, a bug, an idea? Write to us.

contact@tubewrapped.app

Log in or sign up