INSTRUCTION CARD 6 OF 8
How many YouTube Shorts have I watched?
YouTube shows no count. Your watch history mixes Shorts with every other video, so the real number starts today: drag the cartridge below to your bookmarks bar, open Shorts, click it, and every Short you swipe ticks up a score in the corner.
Slot the cartridge
- Show the bookmarks bar: Ctrl Shift B, or ⌘ Shift B on a Mac.
- Drag the cartridge onto the bar.
- Open YouTube Shorts and click it. The score sits in the corner; click it again to hide it, and it keeps counting.
- After a reload, click it once more: today's score comes back.
We checked it on youtube.com on 25 October 2026: 11 Shorts swiped, 11 counted. It also counts TikTok and Instagram Reels in the browser on our test pages; on the real sites that is not checked yet.
What it can see
- Only the tab you click it in, while that tab is open: the address of the Short on show.
- It installs nothing and asks for no permission. It has no AI and needs no account.
- It sends nothing anywhere. The day stays in your browser. Your three letters and your score leave only when you press SEND THE DAY, inside the card's link.
Chrome, Edge, Brave and Firefox on a computer. Each site keeps its own count, so YouTube's score and TikTok's are two.
On your phone
highscroll is a free Android app that counts every TikTok and Reel you swipe and turns the day into a high score, with the distance your thumb ran. It has no internet permission and no account. Send the day as a card, and whoever opens it can add their own score to the table. What the app asks for, and why.
Android only. The lock that sends you home at your own number: US$2.99.