A loop pedal for YouTube

What it is

TubeRepeat is a web page that drives YouTube’s own embedded player. You give it a link, mark two points on the timeline, and it keeps sending the playhead back to the first one every time it reaches the second. Around that sit the things practice actually needs: fine speed control, hundredth-of-a-second trimming, a rest between passes, saved sections, and a full keyboard map.

It is free, there is no account, and there is no premium tier holding features back.

How it works

The video is streamed and rendered by YouTube, inside YouTube’s player, on YouTube’s terms. Views count, ads run, and the creator is credited exactly as they would be on youtube.com. TubeRepeat never touches the video data — it only calls the player’s public controls for play, pause, seek and playback rate.

That is also why a few videos will not load. Uploaders can switch embedding off, and private, age-restricted and region-blocked videos behave the same way. When that happens the player says so and there is nothing on this end that can override it.

What it deliberately does not do

• It does not download videos. There is no save button, no MP3 conversion, and no plan to add either.
• It does not host or re-upload anything. Every video plays from YouTube.
• It does not want an account. Nothing you do here is tied to an identity.
• It does not send your practice anywhere. Saved sections stay in your browser.

Where your data lives

Sections, recent videos and settings are written to your browser’s local storage on the device you are using. They are never transmitted to a server, which also means they do not follow you between devices unless you move them yourself — the settings panel exports everything as a JSON file and imports it back.

Clearing site data removes them. Private browsing forgets them when the window closes. There is more detail on the privacy page.

Who it is for

Anyone who needs the same few seconds again. In practice that has meant musicians working out parts by ear, guitarists drilling a run, language learners shadowing a sentence, dancers taking a routine apart eight counts at a time, and coaches studying a few frames of technique. The practice guides are written for those jobs specifically.

Not affiliated with YouTube

TubeRepeat is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to YouTube or Google. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC.