Hovercap

Picture‑in‑Picture that keeps the captions.

Chrome's floating video drops captions and gives you only play and pause. Hovercap pops any video into a floating window with its captions and the controls you'd expect from a real player.

Coming soon to Chrome Free · Collects no data
A video in Hovercap's floating window, with its caption shown above the playback controls.

Everything Chrome's floating video leaves out

Captions come with you

The captions the site is showing appear in the floating window, at the size you choose. On YouTube you can switch them on from the window itself.

Real controls

A seek bar with time preview, 10-second skip, volume, playback speed and keyboard shortcuts. They appear on hover and stay out of the way.

Google Meet call controls

On a Meet call, the floating window shows the main speaker with buttons to mute, turn your camera off, raise your hand and leave.

Private by design

Hovercap only runs on the tab you click it on. No servers, no analytics, no tracking, and no access to all your websites.

See it in action

The caption size control open at 130 percent in the floating window.
Make captions bigger or smaller without leaving the window.
The floating window's controls, with the volume slider open.
Seek, skip, volume, speed and captions, shown on hover.

How to use it

  1. Open any page with a video.
  2. Click the Hovercap button in your toolbar, or press Alt+P.
  3. Click it again to close the window and put the video back.

Keyboard shortcuts

Space KPlay or pause
← →Back or forward 5 seconds
J LBack or forward 10 seconds
↑ ↓Volume
MMute
CCaptions on or off
+ −Caption size
< >Playback speed

Your viewing stays yours

Hovercap reads the video and captions inside your browser and sends nothing anywhere. It saves only two settings: whether captions are on and how big they are. Read the privacy policy.