XT3 · Browser extension
Unreel
No more Reels, Shorts or endless video feeds. Unreel switches them off on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X, Reddit and five more sites at once. The rest of each site works as usual. Want ads gone too, or a whole site? Pick per site. Free, no account, nothing collected.
Free. Works on Chrome, Edge, Brave and Firefox. Install links appear here the day each store listing goes live.
What goes
Out of the box, Unreel takes the short video. Ads and the whole site are extra switches for each site, off until you turn them on.
YouTube
Shorts: shelves, the Shorts tab and sidebar link, and youtube.com/shorts pages. Normal videos stay.
If you want: Ads · Whole site
Reels: the Reels tab and Reels pages. Video posts: in your feed and in Explore and profile grids. Stories and messages stay.
If you want: Ads · Whole site
Reels & Watch: Reels, Watch, video pages and fb.watch links. Video posts: in the feed, and Facebook videos embedded on other sites. Messages and stories stay.
If you want: Ads · Whole site
TikTok
The whole site, and TikToks embedded in articles.
X / Twitter
Video posts in the feed, and the full-screen video viewer. Messages stay.
If you want: Ads · Whole site
Video posts.
If you want: Ads · Whole site
Video posts in the feed. LinkedIn Learning and messages stay.
If you want: Ads · Whole site
Threads
Video posts.
If you want: Ads · Whole site
Bluesky
Video posts.
If you want: Whole site
Video pins.
If you want: Ads · Whole site
Snapchat
Spotlight.
If you want: Whole site
Everything else stays: photos, text posts, messages, search, your profile.
Made for real life
Pick what goes, site by site
Each site has its logo and its own switches in the toolbar popup and in Settings: Shorts or Reels, every video post, ads, or the whole site. Short video is on from the start. Ads and whole sites stay off until you turn them on.
One switch for everything
Turn Unreel off and on in one tap. The toolbar button shows how much it hid on the page you are on.
A 5-minute pause
When you really need it, pause a site for 5 minutes. It switches itself back on.
Strict mode
Turning anything off makes you wait a few seconds first. Long enough to change your mind at 1 a.m.
Let shared links play
Optional. When a friend sends you one YouTube Short, it opens as a normal video. The Shorts feed stays blocked.
My rules
Something slipping through before the next update? Hide it yourself with a CSS selector, or block any page.
See what you skipped
A quiet count of what Unreel hid, today and in total. It stays on your computer.
See it
Private by design
Unreel collects nothing.
No analytics, no accounts, no servers of ours. Unreel runs only on the sites it covers, makes no network requests of its own, and never sends what you browse anywhere. It does not read your messages, your account or what you type.
Read the details in the Unreel privacy policy.
Free, with a tip jar
Unreel is free, made by one person at XT3. If it gives you your evenings back, you can say thanks with a tip. It pays for keeping up with every site each time it changes its layout.
Support UnreelQuestions
Is it free?
Yes. Every feature, no account, no paid version. Unreel is made by one person at XT3. If it gives you your evenings back, you can leave a tip.
What does it collect?
Nothing. No analytics, no accounts, no servers of ours. It runs only on the sites it covers and never sends what you browse anywhere. Your settings follow you to your other computers only through your browser’s own sync, if you have it on.
Can it block ads too?
Yes, site by site, and off until you turn it on. It hides sponsored posts and ad slots in feeds on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Threads and Pinterest. It does not remove ads inside the video player.
Which browsers?
Chrome, Brave, Edge and Firefox. Brave installs it from the Chrome Web Store.
What if something slips through?
Social sites change their pages every few weeks. When a layout is new, Unreel still hides the post around the video and tells you, so you can report it in one click from the toolbar button. Fixes ship fast. You can also hide it yourself today in Settings › My rules.
Can I still watch one Short someone sends me?
On YouTube, yes. The blocked page offers to open that one Short as a normal video. Turn on “Let shared links play” in Settings and a shared Short opens that way on its own. The feed stays blocked either way. Instagram Reels and other short videos stay blocked; pause that site for 5 minutes if you need to watch one.
Ideas, bugs, questions: [email protected] · Support Unreel · Privacy policy →