Loop any part of a YouTube video

A YouTube looper repeats a video, or just one section of it, on its own until you stop it. This one is free and runs in the browser: paste a YouTube link, set where the section starts and ends, and it plays that part over and over, at any speed from 0.25x to 2x. No account, no extension, and the video keeps playing in YouTube's own player.

Not by itself. YouTube's own Loop, in the player's right-click menu, repeats the whole video from the beginning. Repeating one section needs a start point and an end point, an A-B loop, which is what this page adds on top of YouTube's player.

Paste the link above and the whole video starts looping. Play it to where your part begins and press Start loop. Let it run to where the part ends and press the same button, which now says End loop. It jumps back to the start and keeps repeating that part until you stop it. You can also drag the two red handles on the bar. If the video has chapters in its description (Verse, Chorus, Solo), Loop a chapter sets both points in one tap.

Yes, it is free, and Playback shows no ads of its own. Looping, slow motion, the speed steps, mirror and sharing need no account and have no paid version. YouTube may play its own ads before a video, as it does wherever its player appears, and those pay the person who made the video.

Yes. Drag either red handle on the bar under the video. The picture follows your finger, and letting go of the end handle plays the last two seconds into the repeat, so you can hear whether the join is clean before you share it. A start, an end, and an A-B loop between them.

Yes. Slow-mo drops it to 0.75x, then 0.5x, then back to normal. If you need something in between, open Fine tune: half, three-quarter, normal and 1.25x are one press each, and More moves the speed in steps of 0.05 from 0.25x to 2x. The number shown is the speed YouTube's player reports back, so it is always the speed you are really hearing. YouTube keeps the pitch the same when it slows down.

The loop lives in the link: the video, the start, the end, the speed and your note. Press Copy link, or Share on a phone, and whoever opens it lands on the same loop and reads the note first. There is nothing to sign up for. Your recent loops are also remembered on this device, and never leave it.

Yes. Replay, Start loop and Play are sized for a thumb, and the handles are easy to grab. On Android you can install Playback from Chrome's menu and then use Share in the YouTube app to send a video straight here. Turn on Keep screen on in Fine tune and the phone will not dim and lock in the middle of a loop. Some phones need one tap on the video itself before sound is allowed to start; that rule is the browser's.

On any YouTube video, change youtube.com in the address to playback.tv and press Enter. The video opens ready to make a Playback, with its time kept. It works in a phone's browser too, where m.youtube.com becomes m.playback.tv. Paste that same address into the box above instead and it opens here, as a loop. A youtu.be link, the kind YouTube's Share button gives, swaps too: change youtu.be to playback.tv.

Yes. The loop is held by a timer as well as by the screen clock, so it carries on behind a chord chart or a set of notes. In a hidden tab the browser lets timers run about once a second, so the wrap can land a fraction late there and is exact again when you come back.

You can set them to a tenth of a second. YouTube's player then starts from the nearest point it can, which is usually within a fraction of a second. If a loop clips the first note or word, open Fine tune and move the start a little earlier.

No. It plays through YouTube's own player, with YouTube's own controls, captions and fullscreen all working. Playback only tells that player where to start and where to go back to. The video stays on YouTube and stays its uploader's.

No. A loop is never copied, so there is no file to make a GIF from, and a link to it keeps the moment playing from the original video. To make a GIF from a video that is yours, ThumbCrafted's free GIF maker turns a moment of your own clip into a captioned GIF on your device.

Three things a bare loop cannot do. Make it a Playback: give it a name, say what to notice, and it gets a page of its own. Start a Cut: add more loops, from this video or from others, and one link plays them back to back. Or Compare it: put two takes side by side and play them together.