The short answer: Free, and it plays straight from YouTube — no account, no download. Paste a YouTube link, drag two handles to mark the bars you want, and that section repeats on its own. Slow it to a quarter of full speed when it is too fast, speed it up when you are ready, save the loop with a name, and come back to it tomorrow.
Last updated: August 2026
Learning a solo, a riff or an odd bar by ear means playing the same four seconds over and over. On an ordinary player that is a fight with the scrub bar: you overshoot, you rewind too far, you lose the thread. The YouTube Looper turns those four seconds into a loop that repeats until you stop it, at whatever speed you can actually play.
You never have to get the loop right on the first attempt — the handles stay draggable while the audio keeps playing, so you can tighten the section by ear, in time, without stopping.
The speed control on the right opens a slider covering 0.25× to 2.0×. Half speed is where most difficult passages become learnable: slow enough to hear which finger lands where, fast enough to keep the shape of the phrase.
The usual way to use it is to start slow and climb — set the loop, drop to 0.5×, play it until it is clean, then move up a notch at a time until you are at full speed. Because the loop keeps running, you can change speed mid-practice without losing your place.
The YouTube Looper page also lists loops other people have published — most popular (by likes and comments) or most recent. Opening one loads their exact A and B points in your player, so the work of finding the right four seconds is already done.
Saving a community loop makes your own copy. The original is never changed by anyone practising from it.
Nothing but a browser. There is no installation, no plugin and no download; the video plays from YouTube in the standard embedded player, and the looping, speed and saving happen around it. It works on a phone as well as a laptop, which matters when the instrument is already in your hands.
Does it change the pitch when I slow a song down? No. Slowing playback keeps the song in its original key, so what you learn at 0.5× is the same notes you will play at full speed.
Can I loop just two bars? Yes. Drag the time labels above the handles rather than the handles themselves — that gives fine control, and the loop can be as short as you need.
Do my loops stay after I close the page? Saved loops do. Press Save, give the loop a name, and it will be in your list next time. Unsaved changes are not kept, and the page warns you before you leave with any.
Is it free? Yes, the looper is free to use.
Is this the same thing as a loop pedal? No, and the difference is worth knowing before you pick one. A loop pedal — and our multi-track looper — records *you*, then plays your own layers back so you can build an arrangement on your own. A looper for YouTube does the opposite: it repeats a section of somebody else's recording so you have something to practise against. If you are learning a part, you want this page. If you are stacking your own parts, you want the other one.