Changelog

Enjoy native Japanese audio automatically with this update, plus visual improvements to recommended channels.

New Features

• Automatic native Japanese audio track selection — No more dubs! NihongoTube now automatically selects the Japanese audio track when available (desktop only)

Bug Fixes

• Recommended channels — Borders on recommended channels are back!

Introducing channel whitelisting to bypass filtering, plus important bug fixes for stability.

New Features

• Channel whitelist — New feature to bypass filtering for specific channels!

Bug Fixes

• Mobile settings — Resized mobile settings popup to improve usability
• Channel pages — Fixed potential infinite loop (freeze) on channel pages
• Featured videos — Updated filtering for new channel page featured video format

JLPT estimates now available on channel pages, with performance improvements and bug fixes.

New Features

• JLPT estimates on channel pages — View estimated JLPT levels directly on channel pages!

Improvements

• Performance — Reduced network calls for better performance
• Channel whitelist preparation — Internal prep work for upcoming channel whitelist feature

Bug Fixes

• Recommended channels — Corrected channel link in recommended channels

Enhanced recommended channels with subtitle information and introduced crowdsourced JLPT backup.

New Features

• Subtitle information — Recommended channels now show subtitle availability
• JLPT crowdsourcing — JLPT estimates now backed up via anonymous crowdsourcing to protect against future YouTube changes (opt-out available in settings)

JLPT estimates are working again after resolving transcript issues, plus new toggle control.

New Features

• JLPT badge toggle — JLPT estimate badges can now be toggled on/off in settings

Bug Fixes

• JLPT estimates — Fixed transcript download issue that was preventing JLPT estimates from working

Filter recommended channels by JLPT level, plus 30+ new channels and multiple stability improvements.

New Features

• JLPT filtering for channels — Recommended channels can now be filtered by JLPT level
• New channels — Added 30+ new recommended channels

Bug Fixes

• Network error handling — Improved error handling for JLPT level estimates
• JLPT tuning — Further JLPT level estimate tuning focused on political content
• Window resize — Fixed rare freeze related to window size changes on video pages
• YouTube Studio — Explicitly excluded studio.youtube.com from filtering

Better subtitle visibility and improved settings organization with update notifications.

New Features

• Auto-generated subtitle distinction — New toggleable setting to distinguish auto-generated subtitles
• Update notifications — Added update notification to inform users of changes
• Settings tabs — Added tabs to the popup to better organize settings

System UI now supports Hindi, plus important fixes for video previews and stability.

New Features

• Hindi support — Added system UI support for Hindi

Bug Fixes

• Video previews — Resolved issue with video preview playback on home/subs pages
• Channel navigation — Fixed potential freeze on channel navigation
• Empty shelves — Empty video shelf notification is now more reliable

The extension icon now reflects the toggle state, with improved JLPT accuracy and multiple bug fixes.

New Features

• Dynamic icon — System icon now toggles based on master switch state
• New channels — Added 5 new recommended channels

Bug Fixes

• JLPT accuracy — Expanded word dataset to improve level estimate accuracy
• N5 tuning — Added weighting for repetition to tune JLPT level estimates on N5 videos
• Short videos — Adjusted JLPT level weighting for short videos mismarked as N5
• Comment reveal — Guard against the comment reveal button duplicating
• Channel filtering — Improvements to channel filtering during channel navigation
• Metrics — Metric saving now works again

NihongoTube is now available on Firefox for Android! Plus JLPT improvements and multiple bug fixes.

New Features

• Mobile support — Firefox for Android now fully supported!
• JLPT unavailable indicator — Added an indicator when JLPT level is unavailable

Bug Fixes

• JLPT tuning — Improved JLPT level estimates in the N3-N5 bracket
• Sidebar filtering — Updated filtering for movie and new short format in video sidebar
• Subscription page — Fixed subscription page filtering toggle
• Channel navigation — Resolved bug in channel filtering via navigation
• JLPT UI — Fixed issue with JLPT level UI duplicating on videos

Major release adding Chinese and Japanese UI support, with auto-navigation prevention and performance improvements.

New Features

• Chinese & Japanese UI — System UI language support for Chinese & Japanese added!
• Auto-navigation prevention — Filtering now stops end-of-video auto-navigation if the target video is not Japanese

Improvements

• Untranslation performance — Improved speed for untranslation layer by 6x

Bug Fixes

• Search JLPT — Fixed search result JLPT level correctly readded after back navigation

Support for localized store listings to better serve international users.

Improvements

• Localization — Added support for localized store listings

Major expansion of JLPT level display to home and subscription pages, with accuracy improvements.

New Features

• JLPT on home & subs — JLPT level now displayed on the home & subscription page!

Improvements

• Caching — Improved caching for better performance over long sessions

Bug Fixes

• JLPT accuracy — Tweaks to improve JLPT level estimate accuracy
• Untranslation — Untranslate video titles to improve filtering accuracy

JLPT levels now appear on video sidebar recommendations, plus Discord community link.

New Features

• JLPT on sidebar — JLPT level now shown on video sidebar recommendations!
• Discord link — Added a link to our Discord in the settings popup

Bug Fixes

• JLPT accuracy — Improvements to JLPT level accuracy
• Settings toggle — Improvements to settings toggle behaviour

Filtering now covers auto-generated channels, with endscreen layout updates and extensive internal improvements.

New Features

• Auto-generated channels — Filtering now applied to auto-generated channels!

Bug Fixes

• Endscreen filtering — Updated endscreen filtering following new YouTube layout
• False positive — Fixed filtering false-positive with fypシ hashtag

Improvements

• Internal rewrite — Extensive rewrite to enable more cool features to come

Added refresh button for channel recommendations, with performance improvements and bug fixes.

New Features

• Refresh button — Added a refresh button to channel recommendations

Bug Fixes

• Settings button — Removed ‘open settings’ button from explore notification
• Channel filtering — Fixed channel video filtering following changes in v1.7.0
• Performance — Various extension performance and error handling improvements

Reveal hidden search results on demand, with dramatically improved page load times and welcome page.

New Features

• Reveal button — Button added to reveal hidden search results
• Welcome page — Added an on-install welcome page

Improvements

• Page load times — Improved by 2.5x!

Bug Fixes

• Playlist filtering — Playlists are now filtered on the search page
• Empty shelves — Empty content shelves are now filtered on the search page
• Kaomoji detection — Resolved edge case in Japanese language detection involving kaomoji

Filtering now covers search results, plus JLPT tuning and performance improvements.

New Features

• Search filtering — Added filtering for search results!

Bug Fixes

• JLPT tuning — More JLPT level estimation tuning

Improvements

• Performance — Various performance improvements

JLPT estimates now appear on search results, with new recommended channels and Ko-fi support.

New Features

• JLPT on search — JLPT level estimates now appear on search results
• New channels — Added 4 new recommended channels
• Ko-fi button — Added Ko-fi support button

Bug Fixes

• JLPT music tuning — JLPT level estimation tuning for music
• Firefox JLPT — JLPT level estimate now correctly appears on Firefox

Minor fix for the reveal comment button in light mode.

Bug Fixes

• Light mode — ‘Reveal comment’ button now uses correct highlight colour in light mode

New button to reveal filtered comments, plus stability improvements.

New Features

• Reveal comments — Added a ‘reveal comments’ button to show filtered comments

Bug Fixes

• Transcript warning — Addressed a known warning associated with loading video transcripts
• Reload handling — Reload handling improvements

Quick fix for menu color consistency on Firefox.

Bug Fixes

• Firefox colors — Corrected menu colours on Firefox

Introducing JLPT level estimates on videos to help you find content at your learning level.

New Features

• JLPT estimates — Videos now display an estimated JLPT level

Added new recommended channels with improved filtering deactivation behavior.

New Features

• New channels — Added 3 new recommended channels

Bug Fixes

• Navigation — Improved how filtering deactivates on page navigation

Visual fix for video alignment on key pages.

Bug Fixes

• Video alignment — Fixed alignment of videos on the home & subscription page

Updated filtering for subscription page following YouTube changes.

Bug Fixes

• Subscription filtering — Fixed filtering for subscription page following YouTube update

Updated filtering for home and related pages following YouTube changes.

Bug Fixes

• Home filtering — Fixed filtering for home and related pages following YouTube update

Major feature update adding recommended Japanese channels and channel page filtering.

New Features

• Recommended channels — Added recommended Japanese channels to home page
• Channel home filtering — Added channel home page filtering
• Channel shorts filtering — Added channel shorts page filtering

Bug Fixes

• False positive — Addressed false positive with ‘#fypシ゚’
• Shorts containers — Empty shorts containers are now properly hidden
• Notification hiding — No content notification on channel video section now hides after toggle off
• Back navigation — Navigating backwards to a channel now reapplies filtering