Cinewide

Black bars gone. Nothing cropped.

Cinewide is a Chrome extension for ultrawide monitors. It finds the real picture inside a video, even when the black bars are part of the video itself, and fits it to your screen without cropping it.

Coming to the Chrome Web Store. Free to use. No account needed.

One press

Smart

Before: a 2.39:1 film inside a 16:9 video. On a 21:9 screen it has black bars on all four sides.
After Smart: the picture is as wide as the screen, and all of it is there.

Fill

Before: a 16:9 video on a 21:9 screen. Bars at the sides.
After Fill: the screen is full. The top and the bottom of the picture are cropped, and Cinewide says so.

The pictures are illustrations, made from stills of the film Sintel. They are not screenshots. Sintel: © Blender Foundation, www.sintel.org, CC BY 3.0.

How it works

  1. Open a video.
  2. Press Smart: its key, the button Cinewide shows on the video, or the Cinewide icon in the toolbar.
  3. One press per video. Cinewide keeps the picture right for that video, and the same key again puts it back as it was.

What it does

Smart

Finds black bars that are part of the video itself and takes them out, without cropping the picture.

Fill

Fills the screen. The edges of the picture are cropped, and Cinewide tells you.

The ratio key

For video whose picture cannot be measured, such as protected streams: 2.39:1, 2.0:1, 1.85:1 and 16:9, one press each.

Adjust

Zoom and move the picture by hand, on top of any mode.

On any site

On YouTube, Vimeo and Twitch from the start. On every other site, only when you press: a key, or the Cinewide icon in the toolbar.

Nothing is changed for good

Cinewide changes how your browser shows the video, not the video. Press again and it is as it was.

English and Vietnamese

Cinewide speaks Vietnamese in a browser that is in Vietnamese, and English in any other.

No tracking

No analytics. Nothing about what you watch or where you watch it is ever sent.

Pricing

Free

$0 for good

  • Smart, Fill, the ratio key and Adjust, on every site, with no limit of time or of use.
  • Choose what a press does on one site, and keep one adjustment as a preset.
  • No account.

Pro

$14.99 a year

  • Auto Apply: Cinewide applies itself automatically on the sites you turn on, with no press.
  • A choice for as many sites as you like, and as many presets.
  • Sync: your settings, site choices and presets on all your computers.
  • Try it for 7 days, once, with no card. Nothing is charged when the trial ends.
  • When Pro ends, nothing you made is deleted. Everything of Free goes on working.

An account is needed only for the trial, for Pro and for sync. Prices are in US dollars. Tax may be added at checkout, depending on your country.