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Your playlist extension stopped working

Every listing below checked on October 3, 2026

YouTube changes its page markup, and every extension built on top of it breaks sooner or later. The ones that come back are the ones somebody is still maintaining. Here is which popular playlist tools have gone quiet, what each one did, and the maintained tool that is best at each job today.

I build Playlist Wrangler, so treat this as an interested party’s survey. Every date and rating is from the extension’s own store listing and links straight back to it, so you can check any line of it in about ten seconds.

The short answer

Pick by the job you need done. Where another extension is better at it than mine, it is the pick.

If you want to Best pick Also does it
Select many videos and move or copy them between playlists Playlist Wrangler PocketTube: Youtube PlayList Manager
Search and bulk-delete Watch Later or Liked videos Playlist Wrangler (free undo) Watch Later Tidy (also searches uploader tags)
Empty Watch Later or Liked videos in one click YT Watch Later Assist Watch Later Tidy
Sort a huge Watch Later by topic, automatically Playlist Wrangler YouTube Playlist Organizer (with your own AI model)
Group playlists into folders PocketTube: Youtube PlayList Manager —
Organize the channels you subscribe to PocketTube: Youtube Subscription Manager —
Reverse the order of a playlist Youtube Playlist Reverser —
Alphabetize the “Save to playlist” menu Playtube —
Remove duplicate songs from YouTube Music playlists YouTube Music — Remove Duplicates —
Export a playlist to a spreadsheet Playlist Wrangler (CSV) —

Find yours

Multiselect for YouTube™

No recent release

~70,000 users · 4.0★ (895 ratings) · Last release October 4, 2024 (v3.7)

What it did
Selected several videos at once to move, copy, sort, or de-duplicate them across your playlists.
Where it stands
No release in two years. From late July 2026 its reviews filled with reports that a YouTube change broke the selection (one from August 11: “some backend change on Youtube has removed a lot of the functionality”). Since mid-September the reports are mixed: on September 24 one reviewer wrote “EXTENSION WORKS AGAIN!” after forcing an update, and two others that day wrote “not working now” and “can not use today.”

In Playlist Wrangler

Playlist Wrangler covers all of it: filter to the videos you want, select them, and Add or Move them to any playlist in one step, with a one-tap undo. Duplicates surface on their own, because the same video across two playlists merges into a single row.

Its store listing Read its reviews yourself

YT Watch Later Assist

Still maintained

~50,000 users · 4.3★ (529 ratings) · Last release July 5, 2026 (v4.1)

What it did
Emptied Watch Later or Liked videos in bulk, and added an entire public playlist to Watch Later.
Where it stands
Still maintained — the developer shipped v4.1 in July 2026. A handful of reviews from mid-2026 report the bulk-add step failing, but this one is not abandoned, and if bulk-clearing is all you need it still does that job.

In Playlist Wrangler

Reach for Playlist Wrangler when clearing the list is not the point — when you want to see what is in there first. It indexes the whole of Watch Later, tags every video by topic, genre, mood and language, and lets you clear out only the part you are finished with.

Its store listing Read its reviews yourself

YouTube Watch Later Organizer

No recent release

~820 users · 3.5★ (12 ratings) · Last release November 26, 2024 (v1.1)

What it did
Sorted Watch Later into topic categories automatically — the same idea Playlist Wrangler is built on.
Where it stands
No release in over 22 months.

In Playlist Wrangler

This is the closest thing to a direct predecessor. Playlist Wrangler does the same automatic sorting across a much wider set of categories, and adds search, filtering, bulk edits and export on top.

Its store listing

What you had, and where it is now

Everything the stale extensions above did, in one place — plus the parts they never got to.

The thing you lost In Playlist Wrangler
Select several videos at once checkboxes in the panel, plus select-all on any filtered view
Move or copy videos between playlists Add or Move to any playlist you own, in one step
Bulk-remove from Watch Later or Liked videos filter, select, Remove: about 7 seconds for 500, with a one-tap undo. Un-likes are checked against YouTube’s own Liked list
Find duplicates the same video across playlists merges into one row, so duplicates are visible
Sort a playlist by date added, title, length, views, likes, likes-per-view, or shuffle
Filter by title text full-text search across every playlist you have scanned at once
Work past YouTube’s first ~100 videos the scan reads the whole playlist, not the first page
Work on private and unlisted playlists
Undo a bulk action every add, remove, move and category edit has one
Automatic categories by topic, genre, mood, language worked out on your device, free, no manual tagging
Export the list any view, filtered or whole, to CSV
Sign-in required No account, no OAuth, no API key

Extensions that are alive and good

Not everything in this corner of the store is neglected, and mine is not the right answer to every question. If one of these fits your problem better, install it instead.

PocketTube: Youtube PlayList Manager

Groups your playlists into folders, sorts and filters them, moves and deletes in bulk, and shows how long a playlist runs. About 60,000 users, updated September 4, 2026. If folders for your playlists are the goal, start here.

Chrome Web Store →

PocketTube: Youtube Subscription Manager

Organizes the channels you subscribe to — collections, a filtered feed, notifications. About 300,000 users, updated September 4, 2026. A different job from playlists, and it does that job well.

Full comparison →

Watch Later Tidy for YouTube™

Searches Watch Later, Liked videos and your playlists as you type, bulk-deletes or unlikes, and helps you escape the 5,000-video limit. The core is free; an optional Pro subscription adds clean-up rules and undo. 5.0★ from 76 ratings, updated October 1, 2026. If search and clean-up is your whole problem, it is excellent.

Chrome Web Store →

Youtube Playlist Reverser

Reverses the order of a playlist in one click, so a series plays from the first episode. About 30,000 users, updated September 28, 2026.

Chrome Web Store →

Playtube

Sorts the playlists in YouTube’s “Save” menu from A to Z, so a long list of playlists is easy to scan. Back in development: v2.0.0 shipped September 27, 2026, after five years without a release.

Chrome Web Store →

YouTube Music — Remove Duplicates

Finds and removes duplicate songs in YouTube Music playlists in one click. 4.8★ from 47 ratings, updated April 20, 2026. It does something Playlist Wrangler does not specialise in.

Chrome Web Store →

Why this keeps happening

YouTube’s official API cannot see your Watch Later. That single fact shapes every tool on this page: to work on the playlists you actually care about, an extension has to read the YouTube page in front of you. So when YouTube reshuffles its markup, which it does without warning or announcement, things break.

Nobody can engineer their way out of that, and I am not going to pretend otherwise about my own extension. What is in anyone’s control is how fast the fix arrives. The stale extensions above have gone close to two years without a release, and their users found out the hard way. Playlist Wrangler has shipped more than sixty versions since it launched in June 2026, the latest on October 2.

Which is also to say: these were good tools, built by people who solved a real problem and then got on with their lives. That is a normal end for a side project, and the seventy thousand people still relying on one of them are the ones who pay for it.

Questions

What is the best alternative to Multiselect for YouTube?
It depends what you used it for. To select videos in bulk and move or copy them between playlists, Playlist Wrangler does it and is actively maintained (latest release October 2, 2026); PocketTube’s playlist manager also moves and deletes in bulk and adds folders. To search and bulk-delete Watch Later, Playlist Wrangler does it with a free undo; Watch Later Tidy is a strong single-purpose alternative that also searches the uploader’s tags. The table at the top of this page matches each job to a tool.
Multiselect for YouTube stopped working. Is there a fix?
Not from the developer: its last release is still October 4, 2024. Reviews from late July 2026 report that a change on YouTube’s side broke the selection. Since mid-September some reviewers say it works again after forcing an update from the chrome://extensions page, and others say it still fails. Unofficial patched copies are on GitHub; they are not reviewed by the Chrome Web Store and install in developer mode, so read the code before loading one. Playlist Wrangler does the same bulk selection, moving, copying and de-duplicating, and it is actively maintained.
Why do YouTube extensions keep breaking?
Almost all of them, Playlist Wrangler included, read the YouTube page itself rather than an official API, because YouTube’s public API cannot see your Watch Later. That is the only way to build these tools, and the cost is that when YouTube reshuffles its page markup, extensions break. There is no way to prevent it. The only thing that separates a tool that recovers from one that dies is whether anyone is still shipping fixes.
Will Playlist Wrangler break too?
Parts of it will, at some point, for the reason above — and the honest answer is that it is built to fail quietly rather than break the page you are on. What differs is the response time. Playlist Wrangler has shipped more than sixty versions since it launched in June 2026, the latest on October 2, 2026. When YouTube changes something, the fix is days away, not never. That is the whole difference between this and the stale extensions listed above.
Is Playlist Wrangler free?
Yes. Free and ad-free, with no paid tier. The automatic categorization is part of the free extension, not an upgrade.
Do I have to redo the organizing I did in my old extension?
There is nothing to redo, because there is nothing to set up. Playlist Wrangler scans your playlists and categorizes every video on its own, so you start with your whole library already sorted instead of an empty folder structure. Categories you add or edit by hand are never overwritten.
Does it need my Google account?
No. It reads the playlist pages from the YouTube session you are already signed into. There is no account to create, no OAuth screen, and no API key. The index stays in your browser’s local storage.

Pick up where the old one left off

Free, ad-free, no sign-in. Scan a playlist once and it is searchable, filtered, and sorted into categories you never had to create.

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