Online Looper: Free Guitar Looping in Your Browser
An online looper is exactly what it sounds like: a looper that runs in the browser. You play a phrase, it repeats seamlessly, you layer more on top — same job as the pedal on a pedalboard, minus the pedalboard, the power supply, and the cables.
I built the one on this site because I play at my work desk and I wanted looping to cost zero setup. My guitar is always plugged into the computer anyway; the looper should be no further away than a browser tab.
▶ Open the online looper
Free, no download, no signup. Guitar, bass, vocals — anything your mic hears.
What an online looper is (and what it isn't)
Terms first, because search engines mash them together. A looper app is something you install on a phone. A DAW can loop-record, but you'll spend ten minutes in menus before you play a note. A looper pedal is hardware on the floor. An online looper — sometimes "looper online", "web looper", "browser looper" — is a web page that does the core job: record, loop, overdub.
That narrow scope is the point. When the tool is a tab, the distance between "I have an idea" and "I'm playing over it" is about four seconds. Every other option makes you pay a setup tax first, and the setup tax is why my hardware looper lives in a drawer (that story here).
What a browser looper does well
Quantized loops, mainly. This one locks recording to your BPM and bar count, gives you a count-in, and closes the loop exactly on the grid — so the loop can't drift, which is the failure mode that makes beginners give up on looping. Overdubs land as separate layers with their own volume, mute and delete, and Space/O run the whole thing from the keyboard. A USB page-turner footswitch turns it into an actual pedal, feet and all.
And it's free. Not free-trial free. Free.
What it can't do (yet)
Fair is fair: loops currently live in the browser session — close the tab and they're gone. Saving and WAV export are the next features on my list, but today this is a practice and sketching tool, not an archive. If you need a four-hour ambient set with MIDI sync and feedback routing, that's a job for dedicated software or serious hardware, and I'd rather tell you that than waste your evening.
One phone caveat: on Android, some vendors never expose USB audio interfaces to the browser. The built-in mic always works; the guide covers the details.
Three ways I actually practice with it
The rhythm/lead split
Record four bars of the chord progression you're working on, then solo over yourself. You find out immediately whether you actually know the changes or just the shapes.
Chord-tone targeting
Loop two chords. Improvise landing only on chord tones at each change, slowly. This is the exercise that turned "scale up and down" soloing into something musical for me, and it's unbearable to practice without a looper.
The timing mirror
Record a riff you think is tight, let it repeat five times, and listen. The looper is a merciless timing mirror — it shows you exactly where you rush. This is a big part of why I think a looper genuinely makes you a better player, not just a busier-sounding one (the full argument, if you want it).
Getting started in four steps
Pick your input when the page asks, set a tempo (tap T), press Space, play through the count-in until the loop closes, then O to overdub. That's the whole thing. For the full workflow — quantized vs free mode, layer management, latency calibration — read the loop station guide or the control-by-control user guide.
The two boxes that make it sound real
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You can start with a laptop mic, but the day you plug in an interface the browser stops sounding like a demo. On my desk: an Audient iD4 MKII for the clean signal, and a Line 6 POD Express in front of it so the loop records a finished amp tone instead of a dry DI. More options (including the budget NAM pedal I've been testing) in the guide's gear section.
Online looper FAQ
Is there an online looper that needs no download?
Yes — this one. It runs entirely in the browser (Web Audio API): open the page, allow the mic, record. Nothing to install, no account.
Can I use it with my audio interface?
Yes, and you should: pick the interface as the input when the looper asks for a mic. Desktop just works; Android USB is vendor roulette — details in the guide.
Does it work for bass, vocals or beatbox?
Yes. It records whatever input you select. The workflow is identical to guitar.
Online looper vs a looper pedal — which should I get?
Desk practice: the browser, because it's free and already set up. Stage: a pedal, because feet. Both is a fine answer too — the skills transfer completely. There's a full comparison in the loop station guide.
Is it really free? What's the catch?
Free, no signup, no limit. The honest catch: loops don't survive closing the tab yet (saving and export are being built). The site earns from the gear links above, which are marked as what they are.
Try it
The pitch is four seconds long: open the looper, tap in a tempo, record a bar of anything. If the repeat makes you grin, welcome to looping.