Apne PiP Player
About
Who makes this, and why it works the way it does.
Why it exists
The work that pays the bills often sits in a spreadsheet, a billing portal or a form, while the thing you need to follow is a video in another tab. Switching between the two loses your place in both. Browsers have had a picture-in-picture button for years, but it hands you a window with play, pause and little else: no speed, no subtitles, no way to mark the moment you want to come back to.
Apne PiP Player started as a fix for that, for one desk, and grew into the rest of it because each missing control turned out to be missing for everyone.
How it is built
It is a Manifest V3 extension for Chrome and Edge, written in plain JavaScript with no framework and no bundler. There is no account system, and no third-party analytics. Everything it remembers about you is in your own browser, and you can read or delete all of it from the settings page. If you want to help, two switches in Settings will send anonymous counts and error reports — they are off until you turn them on, and the privacy policy lists every field.
The code sticks to what the browser offers directly: the Document Picture-in-Picture API for the window, the Web Audio API for volume boost, and the extension's own storage for notes and settings.
Who makes it
Subhash Kaler, in Sikar, Rajasthan. He handles medical scheme claims at a hospital by day and builds small tools that remove the repetitive parts of that work. This is one of them, published because the problem was not specific to one desk. His other tools and extensions are at subhashkaler.com.
What it costs
Nothing, with no paid tier planned. If it saves you time, the useful thing you can send back is a bug report or a feature you miss.