YouTube simply launched its personal year-end recap and I am scared to even look

If Spotify Wrapped deserves credit score for something, it is kickstarting the pattern of music streaming providers providing yearly listening recaps. Apple Music, YouTube Music, and Amazon Music have all begun providing end-of-year recaps like Spotify does, and now, for the primary time ever, YouTube is increasing it to movies as properly.

YouTube has introduced a brand new end-of-year roundup expertise referred to as YouTube Recap. Just like Spotify Wrapped, it offers you an in-depth have a look at your video-watching habits over the previous yr, highlighting your most-watched channels, matters, and developments based mostly in your viewing historical past. In keeping with YouTube, customers can faucet via as much as 12 interactive playing cards, every showcasing completely different pursuits, deep dives, and standout moments from the yr.

YouTube Recap may also assign you a “persona sort” based mostly on the sorts of movies you watched. Examples embrace “The Talent Builder,” for customers who gravitate towards instructional or how-to content material, and “The Sunshiner,” for individuals who watch movies centered on positivity and good vibes.

YouTube Recaps is now obtainable to customers within the US on each YouTube’s web site and cellular app, and can roll out to customers worldwide this week. The expertise is free for all customers, which means it would not require a YouTube Premium subscription.

Find out how to discover your YouTube Recap

You’ll be able to expertise it on cellular and desktop

To seek out your YouTube Recap, merely choose the “You” tab on YouTube, which is offered on each the cellular app and desktop. On cellular, you may see the “You” tab within the bottom-right nook of the app. On desktop, it seems on the left aspect of YouTube’s homepage, under subscriptions.

If you open the “You” web page on YouTube, you may see a banner that claims “Your 2025 Recap is right here.” Clicking or tapping it can begin your expertise. For those who do not see that, it is possible as a result of YouTube Recaps remains to be rolling out. You must see it quickly, so preserve checking.

Whereas YouTube Recaps is primarily centered in your video-watching habits, it does additionally embrace music highlights if you happen to’ve listened to plenty of music on YouTube this yr. Although YouTube does level out that YouTube Music’s recap expertise offers you a a lot deeper dive into your favourite music, genres, and podcasts over the previous yr.

I am actually excited to see YouTube lastly introduce its personal Spotify Wrapped-like expertise, though I’ve to confess I am a bit nervous about checking mine due to how a lot time I spend watching YouTube movies. Nonetheless, it is enjoyable to get a private overview of every part you’ve got watched over the previous yr — not simply what you’ve got listened to.

YouTube used to launch its annual YouTube Rewind movies to spotlight the platform’s greatest developments, however it hasn’t executed one since 2019, which I am okay with, since these weren’t that nice anyway. YouTube Recap gives a way more private different, and it is obtainable to everybody, not simply YouTube Premium subscribers. YouTube Recap might be obtainable till the tip of the yr, so you might have loads of time to verify yours out.