Loop a video so it plays several times in a row

Overview

Choose a video, pick how many times it should play, ×2, ×3, ×4, ×5 or ×10, and tap Save. iEdit writes a new file in which the clip follows itself with no gap, so a 6-second clip looped five times becomes a 30-second video that plays straight through in any player, in a chat or on a social feed. The original is left as it is in your library, and the looped copy sits next to your other files in My files.

Where the container and codec allow it, the repeats are joined by copying the streams rather than re-encoding them, which keeps every frame identical to the source and makes the job quick. When a format cannot be joined that way, iEdit re-encodes with the phone's hardware encoder instead, keeping the location, device and date metadata. Either way the work is done on your device, shows its progress and can be cancelled, and finishes in the background with a notification.

Looping suits short moments that are over too soon: a boomerang-style clip, a product turning on a stand, a dance step to practise, a background clip that needs to fill a longer song. If you want it as a silent, auto-playing animation instead, Video to GIF is the companion tool. Nothing is uploaded, so looping works offline as well as it does at home.