Watch any video in black and white
Filmina's free Black & White look turns the video you're watching to black and white, with its full range of tones, on YouTube, Netflix and any other site; Warm Sepia gives it the brown of an old print. Noir Mono and Lighthouse go darker and grainier with Pro. Only the video changes: the page around it keeps its colors.
Free to start. No account, nothing uploaded. Chrome, Edge and Brave; Firefox in beta.
Try it on a canal bridge
Pick a look, then slide its Amount to bring some of the color back.
Now showing Look: Black & White
Video: Tears of Steel (© 2012 Blender Foundation) and Big Buck Bunny (© 2008 Blender Foundation), licensed CC BY 3.0; Tears of Steel cropped to 16:9. Graded in your browser by the extension's own renderer; nothing is uploaded.
Four kinds of black and white
The same frame with each, drawn by the extension's shader.
Free
Black & White
Pure black and white with every tone kept, from deep black to clean white.
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Free
Warm Sepia
A warm brown monochrome, like an antique print.
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Pro
Noir Mono
Deep blacks, crushed shadows and a vignette, for drama.
Why watch in black and white
To see a film the way it was shot, to make old footage look its age, or to make a video a little less eye-catching: some people turn their phones grey for the same reason.
On Netflix and other protected services
Black and white is a change of color, which protected services let a browser make, so it works on Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video and HBO Max too.
Only the video
Filmina changes the video and nothing else. To turn the whole screen grey, use your system's grayscale color filter: under Accessibility, Display on a Mac, or Accessibility, Color filters on Windows.
Turn it on in three steps
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Add Filmina to Chrome
It is free and needs no account. Edge and Brave work too.
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Show the rail on a video
Play something, click the Filmina icon in the toolbar and press Show rail, or press Alt+Shift+S. The rail sits beside the player.
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Pick black and white
Open Looks and tap Black & White under Mood, or Warm Sepia under Era. Click it again to bring the color back.
Questions
Common questions
- Add Filmina, show the rail on the video, open Looks and tap Black & White. It is free, and clicking it again brings the color back.
- Yes. Black and white is a change of color, which Netflix lets a browser make, so Filmina's looks work there just as on YouTube.
- Black & White and Warm Sepia are free on every plan. Noir Mono and Lighthouse are part of Pro.
- Yes. The look's Amount slider fades from the original colors at 0% to full black and white at 100%.
- No, only the video. For the whole screen, use the grayscale color filter in your system's accessibility settings.
Try it on your own videos.
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