YouTube Switcher

Watch YouTube playlists with an adaptive switch or a touchscreen. Hold to move on, with sounds and animation to confirm every action.

What to play

Pick one: your own playlists, a ready-made one, a link, or a search

Your YouTube playlists

Sign in to choose from the playlists on your own account.

A good place to start. Playlists with a magnifying glass are built from a YouTube search and keep finding new videos.

Open any playlist on YouTube.com and copy the address from the browser bar.

Type anything and play the results like a playlist.

Switch and timing

How long to hold, and what a hold does

How long the switch or touch must stay held before anything happens.

Simple plays the next video on every hold. Choice opens a board of big buttons that light up one at a time; a hold picks the lit one. Settings with a teal bar are for Choice mode.

Switch availability

Make the switch briefly unavailable, and show when it is

After something happens, the switch stops working for this long — helpful for a learner who keeps pressing. Off keeps today's behavior.

A thick red edge appears around the screen whenever the switch is not available.

How thick the red edge is. Letting go of the slider shows it for a moment so you can see the change.

How thick the edge grows for a moment when the switch is pressed while it is unavailable. Set it the same as Border thickness for no pulse.

Lower lets more of the video show through the red edge.

Plays when the switch is pressed while it is unavailable.

When the video…

What happens when a video ends, and after a set amount of watching

Normally YouTube moves straight on to the next video. Choose a board to let the learner decide instead.

The video stops on a calm screen until a press, then whatever is chosen above happens.

It counts only while the video is playing, so it pauses while a board or the menu is open.

What happens once the playback timer above runs out.

The switch is unavailable (with the red border, if that is on) from the start of each video until the timer runs out or the video ends.

Normally a press during a red light just shows the switch is unavailable. The Take-a-rest board lets the learner choose to wait on purpose instead.

Normally a playlist starts on its first video. With this on, it starts somewhere different each time. Searches already pick a random video whether or not this is on.

Choice boards

Scanning speed, layout, and the buttons on each board

Choice mode Not in use while switch mode is Simple

The board that appears when the switch is pressed while a video is playing. The Video control board is the usual choice.

How long each button stays lit before the next one, from 1 to 15 seconds.

Lights the same button again, replaying its animation and spoken name, before moving to the next. Each repeat lasts as long as the scan speed.

How many playlists or videos a board offers. Fewer means a shorter scan.

Turns one long strip of thin buttons into a grid.

Fades the buttons that aren't lit, so the lit one stands out.

The video holds still while a board is open. Turn off to keep it playing.

Before scanning starts

While it waits on its own, the red unavailable border shows. The press that starts the scan does not choose anything.

Has no effect while "Wait for a press" is selected above.

When the scan reaches the end

Waiting leaves the board up with nothing lit. The press that starts the scan again does not choose anything. The Take-a-rest board always closes instead.

Boards and buttons

Each card is one board, with its buttons in scan order: the main buttons, then the bottom row. Use the arrows to reorder. More moves a button to the other row, removes it, or customises it for this board only. Add a button places another one. A new board can be opened by Switch press on the video opens, by the When the video settings, or by an Open a board button on another board. The Button library at the end changes a button everywhere it appears.

Each time playlist buttons appear on a board, they offer a different mix of playlists, in a new order. When every playlist fits on the board, only the order changes.

Each time video buttons appear on a board, they offer a different mix of videos from the playlist, in a new order. When every video fits on the board, only the order changes.

How long the red screen stays up after "Take a rest" is chosen.

Alternating is predictable. Random stops the learner from learning the sequence instead of reading the colour.

Swaps the green and orange buttons' left/right order from time to time, so position can't substitute for the colour.

How long the grey screen stays up before the board asks again.

Sounds and speech

Volume levels, what plays when a hold succeeds, and spoken button names

How loud the video plays. You will hear the change when the video resumes. On iPhone and iPad the device volume buttons control the video instead.

The charge-up, success, choice and other feedback sounds. Letting go of the slider plays the success sound at the new level.

Spoken button names in Choice mode. Letting go of the slider says a short sample when Spoken labels is on.

Plays when a hold succeeds and the video changes. Pick Random for a different sound each time. The charge-up sound while holding stays the same.

Choice mode Not in use while switch mode is Simple

Plays when a hold picks the lit button.

Plays as soon as a board appears, before scanning starts, so a press that opens a board is always heard, even with Wait before scanning set. Picking a button that opens another board plays the Choice sound instead.

Reads each button's name aloud as it lights up.

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