YouTube,
on your wrist.
YTWatch is a standalone player for YouTube built for Apple Watch. Browse, search and play videos straight from your wrist over Wi‑Fi or cellular. Your iPhone can stay in your pocket — or at home.
No iPhone required.
Most watch apps are a remote control for your phone. YTWatch isn't. It talks to YouTube directly from the watch, so it keeps working when your phone doesn't come along.
Wi‑Fi or cellular
Streams over whatever connection your watch has. On a cellular model, that's anywhere you have signal.
iPhone optional
Browsing and playback never need your phone nearby. Sign in once on iPhone and everything follows you to the wrist.
Made for going light
Workouts, commutes, a run around the block — anywhere carrying a phone is one thing too many.
A full YouTube client, sized for a watch.
Not a stripped-down viewer. Explore, search, channels, comments and full playback controls — all reworked for a screen you look at for six seconds at a time.
Explore
Trending videos by category — Music, Gaming, News, Sports, Fashion and more — with optimized thumbnails and live API data.
Search
Fast full-library search across videos, channels and playlists, with auto-complete, filters for date, duration and relevance, plus voice search via Siri.
Channels
Complete channel pages: subscriber and video counts, trailers, descriptions, sorting by newest or most popular, and one-tap subscribe.
Full playback controls
Play and pause, seek, playback speed, resolution and volume — with the Digital Crown for precise scrubbing.
Video details
Title, description, upload date, view count, creator info, engagement metrics, tags and category — everything at a glance.
Comments
Read threads with replies, like counts and author profiles — and post your own when you're signed in.
Local watch history
Recently watched videos stay on the watch so you can pick one back up instantly. It never leaves your device.
Shorts & livestreams
The Shorts shelf and live content show up right in the feed, playable without leaving the app.
It's your YouTube, not a generic feed.
Sign in with your Google account on iPhone and everything carries over to the watch. Sign-in uses Google's official OAuth flow — YTWatch never sees your password.
- Home feed — personalized recommendations with infinite scroll, a Shorts shelf and livestreams.
- Subscriptions — your channel list, latest uploads, activity indicators and quick unsubscribe.
- Playlists — create and manage them on the watch, synced with every other device you use YouTube on.
- Liked videos — your whole collection, in sync.
- Like, subscribe, comment — act on a video from the wrist, not just watch it.
Every pixel earns its place.
A wrist is not a small phone. The whole interface was rebuilt around glanceable reading, one-handed control and battery you still have at 6pm.
Wrist-first interface
Large touch targets, generous type and haptic feedback on every meaningful action.
Digital Crown support
Scrub through a video frame by frame and set volume without a finger over the screen.
Tuned for battery
Smart loading and caching keep the radio quiet and the thumbnails light.