PiPPlay
Keep YouTube floating while you get things done
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PiPPlay is a lightweight Chrome extension that keeps YouTube in an always-on-top floating mini player while you work, study, design, code, or browse. Control playback, seek, volume, speed, captions, and more without constantly switching tabs. PiPPlay is free, requires no account, has no ads, and doesn't send your viewing activity to a PiPPlay backend. Just open YouTube, launch PiPPlay, and keep going.
PH · launched Sep 12, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 1 view
Niche: streaming media players and tools · 723 launches, 456 in the last 7 days ▲ +1371% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Chrome Extensions
- Productivity
- YouTube
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More like this: all 723 launches in streaming media players and tools →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a lightweight Chrome extension leveraging the native Picture-in-Picture API and standard DOM playback controls on YouTube.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 182 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #145 of 183 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 309 days after the earliest competitor.
- ClipPlay · ph · 2026-10-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- YouTube Pop Out Player - Floaty · ph · 2026-10-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Autoplay Stopper · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Float It: Text & Window PiP · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- SmartPause · ph · 2026-09-20 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- TubeDL · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Replay · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Pip: Screen Time Control · ph · 2026-10-19 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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