Obsidian
darkDeep black, cool violet accent.
Manifest V3 · one-time unlock · no account
YouTube ships two looks.
Reskin gives it seven.
Flagship, hand-tuned themes with the taste of a Linear or an Arc — not a 2012 skin pack. Switch the entire site in one click, tune every color, and sync it across your devices.
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↑ This is a live render. Pick a theme — the whole frame re-skins, exactly like the extension.
01 / Themes
Seven flagship skins. None of them look like a skin pack.
Each theme is a restrained 2–3 color story, contrast-checked for legibility, and tuned against the same bar as Linear or Arc. Hover any tile to see its full palette ramp.
Aurora
darkMidnight teal, luminous green accent.
Cobalt
darkDeep navy, electric blue accent.
Cream
lightWarm paper white, soft terracotta accent.
Sakura
lightSoft pinks, warm white, cherry accent.
Kick
darkDeep slate void with striking neon green.
Cyberpunk
darkNeon pink accents on a deep violet void.
New drops, regularly
Pro unlocks every future theme — no add-on purchases, ever.
02 / Features
Free makes YouTube better. Pro makes it yours.
The free tier is genuinely useful on its own. Pro adds the depth power users want — a real CSS editor, cross-device sync, and per-page control.
Pro
A real CSS editor, not a color picker with delusions
Drop into the full stylesheet that powers your theme. Override anything YouTube renders — every rule is scoped and live.
theme.csslive
1ytd-watch-flexy {2 --reskin-accent: #8b7cff;3 --reskin-bg: #0b0b0f;4 backdrop-filter: blur(12px);5}6/* round every thumbnail */7ytd-thumbnail img {8 border-radius: 14px;9}Pro
Synced across every device
Saved presets ride chrome.storage.sync. Sign into Chrome on a new machine and your themes are already there.
Laptop
Desktop
Free
Applies instantly, survives navigation
No reload, no flash. The injection engine re-applies on YouTube's in-app navigation — watch page, Shorts, search.
Pro
Per-page overrides
Run a calmer theme on the watch page and something louder on Shorts. Different surfaces, different moods.
03 / How it works
From install to your own theme in under a minute.
No account, no setup wizard, no learning curve. Install, click, done.
01
Install in one click
Add Reskin from the Chrome Web Store. It asks for exactly one permission: access to youtube.com. Nothing else.
02
Pick a theme
Open the popup, choose a preset, toggle live preview. The whole site re-skins via injected CSS variables — no reload.
03
Tune & save
Nudge the background or accent. Go Pro to save unlimited presets, write custom CSS, and sync it everywhere you sign in.
Privacy by architecture
The trust signal isn't a promise. It's the permission model.
One permission
Access to youtube.com — and nothing else. No <all_urls>, no broad reach.
Zero data collected
No watch history, no analytics, no account data. Reskin only styles the page.
Nothing leaves your browser
Themes live in chrome.storage. The only network call is the Pro license check.
04 / Pricing
One price. Paid once. Yours forever.
No subscriptions, no upsells, no tiers to decode. Free to install, $4.99 to unlock everything — including every theme we ship next.
Free
No account$0forever
Enough to make YouTube genuinely better, today.
- 4 flagship preset themes
- Live preview before applying
- Instant apply, survives navigation
Reskin Pro
One-time$4.99once · yours forever
No subscription. Pay once, unlock everything — including themes that don't exist yet.
- Every theme — including Pro drops, forever
- Background & accent color tweaks
- Unlimited custom presets, synced across devices
- Full custom CSS editor
- Per-page theming overrides
- All future themes at no extra cost
05 / FAQ
The honest answers.
Privacy, durability, and how the one-time unlock actually works.
No. Reskin only touches presentation — the CSS of the page you're already viewing. It never reads your watch history, account, or video data, and nothing is transmitted anywhere. The single exception is a license-key check to Polar.sh when you unlock Pro, handled in an isolated background worker that never runs on the YouTube page itself.
Reskin themes through the CSS variables YouTube itself exposes (the --yt-sys-color and --yt-spec token systems), which are far more stable than chasing auto-generated class names. Where a stable token doesn't exist, those rules are isolated and commented so they're quick to patch — and updates ship as theme drops you get automatically.
Yes. $4.99 once, through Polar.sh, and you own it. No subscription, no recurring charge. That includes every future theme drop — you never pay again for new content.
Google's policy steers software-license purchases off-platform, so the Pro unlock is handled by Polar.sh. It's the same one-time-unlock model used across the author's other extensions, and it keeps the checkout clean and the extension itself free to install.
Yes. YouTube is a single-page app that re-renders on in-app navigation, so Reskin's injection engine re-applies your theme on every navigation event — home feed, watch page, Shorts, and search all stay themed without a reload.
On Pro, yes. Saved presets are stored in chrome.storage.sync, so signing into Chrome on a new device brings your themes with you automatically.
Make YouTube look the way you'd build it.
Install free in seconds. Unlock everything for the price of a coffee — once.