You might not be together with your friends and family all the time. However, there are innovative tools that help you stay connected with your close ones. For instance, you might be thinking about watching YouTube simultaneously with your family members or friends. Fortunately, you can watch YouTube together, and there are tons of ways.
The built-in sharing option on YouTube gives you a chance to send the video’s link, but you’re not sure when all your friends will start watching it. Hence, you might pre-plan a watch party with your friends and family to enjoy the YouTube video together at the same time.
Here, we have listed a few popular applications that help you and your friends watch YouTube. These services even assist with video sync and playback control.
Let’s check them out for your next YouTube watch party.
Watch2Gether
This is one of the leading apps for watching YouTube together across the world. As a user, you need not sign up or register for Watch2Gether to enjoy YouTube. Simply create a room and send the room link to your friends so that they can join it.
Here are a few feature highlights of Watch2Gether:
- The software is supported on both smartphones and computers
- No registration needed
- Customisation of the background webpage is possible
- It features voice and video chats for participants
Users have to look for the YouTube video and copy the URL. Then, they must paste the URL on Watch2Gether to create a room. Users’ friends and family can join the room once the user shares the link.
On the other hand, YouTube isn’t the only platform that you can watch together on Watch2Gether. Instagram, Facebook, Dailymotion, Vimeo, and more platforms are supported by Watch2Gether.
Twoseven
Do you want to see how your friends and family react while watching the intended YouTube video? Twoseven is the best app to watch YouTube together. Just set up a live video, and you should be able to see your friends through their respective webcams.
Interestingly, Twoseven offers YouTube streaming for free. In addition to YouTube, you can stream and share the following services on Twoseven:
- Netflix
- Disney+
- Hulu
- Apple TV
- HBO Max
- Crunchyroll
- Vimeo
However, you might have to pay for a few of the supported services while enjoying the watch-together facility. To watch YouTube together on Twoseven, you must sign up for an account and log into that account. Add your friends and family members through email.
Next, you can click on Start Watching. In addition, you can choose whether to permit participants to use their mic and webcam components.
Moreover, you can adjust video playback and control settings. Copy and paste the YouTube video URL into the video player. Hit the play button once you are ready to watch.
SyncTube
Watch2Gether has been reported for a glitchy interface. On the other hand, users have complained about Twoseven for interrupted services. If you are looking for a simple interface, then you can try SyncTube. This particular application lets you begin watching YouTube videos without any delay.
We found the following features interesting for SyncTube:
- Users need not input any username or sign up
- Minimal and simple user interface
- It doesn’t bother users with advertisements
Start with creating a room on SyncTube and paste the YouTube video link there. You can stack multiple YouTube videos. Those videos will automatically be played on SyncTube one by one. Another fascinating feature of SyncTube is that you can control the privacy settings of participants.
For example, you can set user permission and video controls and maintain the security of the room. Random people can’t join your room. In addition, your friends can’t fast-forward or skip any video without your permission on SyncTube.
Metastream
Hosting a YouTube watch party is fun, and you can make it hassle-free with Metastream. This ad-free service from Samuel Maddock is one of the most recommended websites to watch YouTube together. Users must install the Metastream extension on Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, or any compatible browser.
Then, users can host the YouTube watching session. Additionally, the user can make sessions offline, private, or public.
In other words, users can decide on the number of participants to watch YouTube together. Metastream offers the following advantages to its users:
- The website is ad-free and open-source
- Users don’t have to sign up or register to avail of the hosting facility
- Metastream offers other streaming services such as Netflix, Twitch, Disney+, Crunchyroll, Hulu, etc., for watching together with your folks
You can navigate YouTube videos within the Metastream website itself. In addition, Metastream features a playlist rundown, user list, text chat, and more functionalities. Besides this, installing the Metastream extension to your browser is really easy and quick.
Scener
Scener is another in-demand website to watch YouTube together. This ad-free website is available through a browser extension. Users have to install its Chrome extension to host any Youtube watch session. In addition, it’s compulsory for users to sign up for the website before hosting a watch party.
Apart from hosting, participants should have individual accounts on Scener to join watch parties. This website features real-time text, audio and video chatting among the participants.
However, users might be unable to join an audio or video chat if they use a tablet or smartphone to join a watch party.
Here’s why we recommend Scener:
- It is supported on both mobile devices and computers
- The website lets users host watch parties on Netflix, Prime Video, Vimeo, Disney+, HBO Max, and more, apart from YouTube
The only con of Scener is its heavy interface. This might be distracting, and the learning curve might be a bit steep.
YouTube Fiesta
Youtube Fiesta is another cool website that will immediately catch your attention. It’s ideal for watching YouTube videos together with your family and folks. You can make a single user join or host an entire watch party on YouTube Fiesta. Enter a username and paste the YouTube video link to start the watch party.
Here are some highlights of YouTube Fiesta:
- It works perfectly on computers and smartphones
- YouTube Fiesta is ad-free
- Simple and interactive interface
- No sign-up needed
Apart from this, the host can decide whether he or she wants to give away playback controls to other participants. Overall, YouTube Fiesta is a colourful and well-designed webpage to entertain you with a YouTube watch party.
Alternative Ways to Watch YouTube Together…
If you don’t want to use the above-mentioned websites to watch YouTube together with your dearest ones, then there’s another way out. You need to rely on video conferencing applications and install them to watch YouTube with your friends and family at the same time. Make sure that you turn on the screen-share option. However, this might not always be useful due to unstable network speed.
