Salsa Loop

Slow it down. Loop the tricky part. Repeat until it's in your body.

Salsa Loop helps you learn dance moves from YouTube videos. Share a video from the YouTube app (or paste its link), mark where the move starts and ends, slow it down, and dance along while it repeats.

How it works

1. In the YouTube app, tap Share → Salsa Loop. Or copy the link and tap Paste in the app.
2. Hearing a song on Spotify? Tap Share → Salsa Loop there too: Salsa Loop finds the same song on YouTube. (Spotify itself can't be slowed down by other apps.)
3. While the video plays, tap Set loop start on the first beat of the move, then Set loop end.
4. The loop repeats at 75% speed. Pick another speed any time.
5. Press play and get to your spot: there's a short countdown first.

Tips

• Turn your phone sideways for a full-screen video.
• Pinch the video to zoom in, for example on the feet.
• Mirror flips the video, so the teacher's left is your left.
• Drag the loop's edges to fine-tune it, or its middle to move it.
• Practice settings (the sliders icon) has a pause between repeats, a spoken "5, 6, 7, 8", speeding up as you go, and counting in 8s once you've tapped the beat.

Sharing with your partner or class

• Tap the share icon on a loop (or ⋯ → Share…) to send it. Anyone with Salsa Loop opens it right on that loop, at that speed, with your name and cue. Without the app, the link still shows the loop and plays it on YouTube from the right spot.
• Tap the share icon on a routine to send all its loops at once, for example to your whole class.
• Your own videos are sent as the video file, because a link can't carry them.

The library

Loops and routines shared by dancers, free to use: Library on the home screen, or on the web. To publish your own: open a loop or routine, tap Share, then Publish to the library. See the library rules; anything reported is hidden until we've checked it.

Questions

What does the unlock add? Your own videos, hands-free practice of routines and sharing. It's a one-time purchase through Apple, shared with your family. Bought it on another phone? Open any unlocked feature and tap Restore purchase.

Can I use Instagram or TikTok videos? Those apps don't let other apps play their videos. Save the video to Photos (in TikTok: Share → Save video), then add it with From your phone.

A video says it can't be played. Some video owners don't allow their videos to be played outside YouTube. Try another video of the same move.

I don't hear the "5, 6, 7, 8". iPhones don't play spoken audio while the silent switch is on. The count is also shown big on screen.

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