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Reverse YouTube Playlist
Play a playlist backwards, from the last video to the first. Paste a channel link to watch it from its very first video.
How to reverse a YouTube playlist
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Copy a playlist or channel link
Copy a playlist link (it contains “list=”), a channel link or a channel's @handle.
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Press Play in reverse
The order is flipped, so the last video in the playlist plays first. For a channel, that is its oldest video.
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Keep watching
Skip ahead or jump to any video in the queue. Your place is saved in this browser.
Who reverses a YouTube playlist
YouTube usually puts the newest video first. That is fine for news, but it gets in the way whenever the story starts at the beginning.
- Courses and tutorials
- Many teachers add each new lesson to the top of their playlist. Reverse it so lesson one plays first and every lesson follows in order, without scrolling to the bottom to find where to start.
- Series and web shows
- Story channels, game playthroughs and build logs only make sense from episode one. Reversing the playlist, or the whole channel, gives you the series the way the creator released it.
- Podcasts from the first episode
- Found a podcast with hundreds of episodes on YouTube? Start where the hosts started, and hear the running jokes and long stories build up in the right order.
- An artist's work from the start
- Reverse an artist's uploads or a discography playlist to hear how their sound changed, from the first release to the latest.
Reverse vs sort vs shuffle
Three ways to change what plays next on YouTube, and when each one is the right choice.
| Compare | Reverse (this page) | Sort on YouTube | Shuffle |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it does | Plays the list from the last video to the first. | Reorders a list by date or popularity. | Plays every video once, in a random order. |
| Works on | Any public playlist or channel. | Only your own playlists, or a channel's Videos tab. | Any public playlist. |
| Press play and go | Yes, the whole queue plays here. | Only for your own playlists. A sorted Videos tab is for browsing. | Yes, with the Playlist Randomizer. |
| Changes the playlist | No. The playlist on YouTube stays as it is. | Yes. Everyone sees the new order. | No. |
| Best for | Courses, series and podcasts from episode one. | Tidying a playlist you own. | Music and long mixes. |
Watch a YouTube playlist in the order it was made
Many playlists and channels list the newest videos first. Reversing them lets you follow a series from the start.
- Oldest first
- Flip any playlist so its earliest video plays first.
- Whole channels too
- Paste a channel to watch its videos from the very first one.
- Broken videos skipped
- Deleted, private and non-embeddable videos are skipped automatically.
- Pick up where you left off
- Close the tab and come back later. The same order and position are waiting in this browser.
Frequently asked questions
Paste the playlist link above and press Play in reverse. The last video plays first, and the queue shows the full reversed order.
A channel's Videos tab can be sorted by oldest, but there is no button to play them in that order. Paste the channel link here to play its videos from the oldest.
Paste the channel link here and press Play in reverse. The first video in the queue is the channel's oldest video. Shorts and live streams are left out.
Some videos can't be played outside YouTube because their owner turned off embedding, and deleted or private videos can't be played at all. TubeKit skips them and moves on to the next video.
No. The playlist stays as it is on YouTube. TubeKit only changes the order it plays in on this page.
YouTube playlists hold up to 5,000 videos. Very long playlists and large channels may be read in part, and then the reversed order starts from the last video that was read.
Yes, this page. Most playlist reversers are browser extensions, but TubeKit runs right in your browser. Paste the link to play a YouTube playlist in reverse, with nothing to install and no sign-in.
Yes. Paste a music.youtube.com playlist link. The songs play in reverse through the YouTube player on this page.
Yes. Open this page in your phone's browser and paste the link. Some phones need one tap on the video to start playback, after that the queue moves on by itself.
Not on YouTube, since TubeKit never signs in to your account. Your place in the reversed queue is saved in this browser. To keep a copy of the list, use the Playlist Exporter.
More free YouTube tools
- Playlist RandomizerTruly shuffle every video in a playlist
- Play All VideosPlay a whole channel, newest or oldest first
- Playlist Length CalculatorTotal length and watch time of any playlist
- Playlist ExporterExport to CSV, Excel, TXT, JSON or Markdown
- Link & Title ExtractorCopy every video link or title, one per line
- YouTube to NotebookLMAdd a whole playlist to NotebookLM in batches