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 nicely.

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, subjects, and developments primarily based in your viewing historical past. In keeping with YouTube, customers can faucet by means of as much as 12 interactive playing cards, every showcasing totally different pursuits, deep dives, and standout moments from the yr.

YouTube Recap will even assign you a “character sort” primarily based on the sorts of movies you watched. Examples embrace “The Ability Builder,” for customers who gravitate towards academic or how-to content material, and “The Sunshiner,” for individuals who watch movies targeted on positivity and good vibes.

YouTube Recaps is now out there 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, that means it would not require a YouTube Premium subscription.

The best way 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 accessible on each the cellular app and desktop. On cellular, you will see the “You” tab within the bottom-right nook of the app. On desktop, it seems on the left facet of YouTube’s homepage, beneath subscriptions.

Once you open the “You” web page on YouTube, you will see a banner that claims “Your 2025 Recap is right here.” Clicking or tapping it should begin your expertise. For those who do not see that, it is seemingly as a result of YouTube Recaps remains to be rolling out. It is best to see it quickly, so maintain checking.

Whereas YouTube Recaps is primarily targeted in your video-watching habits, it does additionally embrace music highlights in case you’ve listened to a number 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 slightly 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 all the pieces 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, but it surely hasn’t achieved 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 out there to everybody, not simply YouTube Premium subscribers. YouTube Recap might be out there till the tip of the yr, so you’ve gotten loads of time to examine yours out.