PilPod v2.1.0  ·  Manifest V3  ·  Tab Sleep & Wake API
Manifest V3 · Chrome Extension

Your Browser's
Media Command
Center

PilPod consolidates every media tab — YouTube, YouTube Music, or any site playing audio or video — into one precision control panel: volume control, timeline scrubbing, 1-click global mute/pause, Picture-in-Picture, and instant search. Built for the kind of user who has 40 tabs open.

Precision native volume control across all tabs simultaneously
Live search jumps directly to any tab or media stream
100% local — zero telemetry, zero tracking, zero servers
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PilPod
0B
Data Sent to Servers
∞
Tabs Supported
1-Click
Mute & Pause All
MV3
Manifest Version
Architecture

Built for the Power User.
Engineered for the Long Haul.

PilPod speaks the browser's native language — tab lifecycle events, a single-source-of-truth service worker, and direct media element control.

TabRegistry & Service Worker
A persistent service worker maintains a live registry of all open tabs, consuming chrome.tabs lifecycle events in real-time. No polling. No stale state. Every tab creation, update, and removal is captured instantly and surfaced to the popup with zero latency.
chrome.tabs API · Service Worker
Tab Sleep & Wake
Take control of your browser's memory. PilPod lets you put any tab to sleep with one click via chrome.tabs.discard — and wake it just as fast. Sleeping tabs are clearly marked in the list, so you always know what's live and what's parked.
Memory Management · Tab Discard
Desktop Companion (Optional)
Control your tabs and media from outside the browser with the PilPod desktop app. Strictly opt-in and local-only: the extension connects exclusively to 127.0.0.1 on your own machine — disabled by default, one click to disconnect, and nothing ever touches the internet.
Opt-in · Loopback Only
Native Player Bridging
PilPod drives players through their own APIs — direct HTMLMediaElement control everywhere, and the native YouTube player interface where available — with a Web Audio gain stage for volume boosts past 100%. No keyboard hacks, no DOM fragility.
HTMLMediaElement · Web Audio API
Global Action Hub
Instantly silence or halt your entire browser. PilPod provides dedicated 1-click global commands to Mute All or Pause All tabs instantly, alongside native Picture-in-Picture (PiP) support for background videos.
1-Click Control · Picture-in-Picture
Privacy

Your Browser.
Your Data.
Yours Alone.

PilPod is architected with a strict local-first, zero-server philosophy — no analytics SDK, no update pings, no crash reporting, no telemetry of any kind. Even the optional desktop app connection never leaves your machine (loopback only, off by default).

✓ 100% Local-First
Zero Telemetry
No analytics, no crash reports sent anywhere
No 3rd Parties
No ad networks, trackers, or external SDKs
Local Processing
All logic executes on your device, period

Ready to take control?

One extension.
Every media tab.

Free forever. No account. No subscription. Install and command your browser's media like a pro in under 10 seconds.

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