01 Spatial controls
Controls sized for your hands
Play, pause, skip 15 seconds, jump to live, change channels, captions and picture quality, all as big glass buttons. Pinch the picture to bring them up; they fade while you watch.
Pinch Remote
Spatial TV Controls for YouTube TV on Apple Vision Pro.
A free Safari extension that swaps YouTube TV’s small, mouse-sized controls for big ones you use with a look and a pinch. Live TV in Vision Pro, made easy.
- Free
- No account
- No ads
- No tracking
- visionOS
02 Live guide
A guide you can read from the couch
Every channel shows a live preview, with what’s on now and next up front. Scroll sideways for later tonight.
03 Channel surfing
Flip channels without leaving the game
Swipe up for a row of every channel, each one live, and switch in about a second.
04 Home
Everything that’s on, at a glance
Live games, shows and genres in big rows, with live video on anything airing now.
05 Library
Your shows and recordings
New episodes and recordings as large tiles. Add a show, a game or a whole season in one tap.
Install
- Device
- Apple Vision Pro
- Browser
- Safari
- Service
- A YouTube TV subscription
- Price
- Free
- Get Pinch Remote from the App Store on Vision Pro.
- Open Settings › Apps › Safari › Extensions › Pinch Remote, turn it on, and allow tv.youtube.com.
- Open tv.youtube.com in Safari, sign in, and pick a channel.
Supported services
YouTube TV, for now. Pinch Remote is built so that other live TV services can be added later; if there’s one you’d use, say so.
Why it’s free
Pinch Remote is a small utility, not a business. There’s no subscription, no in-app purchase, no ads and nothing collected about you. It runs entirely in Safari on your headset, on top of the YouTube TV account you already have.
Support
Questions, bugs or ideas: support@pinchremote.com.
It isn’t showing up on tv.youtube.com.
Check that the extension is on and allowed for tv.youtube.com, then reload the page. If Safari asks, choose Always Allow on This Website. The guide fills in after you visit Live once.
Something stopped working.
YouTube TV changes its website from time to time, which can break parts of Pinch Remote until it’s updated. Use the door button to switch to YouTube TV’s own interface in the meantime, and email what you saw; a screenshot helps.
Does it block ads or download shows?
No. Ads play as usual, and recordings use YouTube TV’s own Library. Pinch Remote never copies or saves video.
Is it made by Google or YouTube?
No. It’s an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Google or YouTube.
Privacy policy
Pinch Remote is built so that no one, including us, sees your data. This policy covers the Pinch Remote app and its Safari extension.
What we collect
Nothing. Pinch Remote has no accounts, analytics, advertising, crash reporting or servers of its own, and it doesn’t send information to us or anyone else.
What stays on your device
The extension keeps a few settings in Safari’s extension storage on your headset: favorite and recent channels, whether Pinch Remote’s interface is on, and a copy of the channel guide so channel changes are fast. It never leaves your device, and removing the app deletes it.
YouTube TV
The extension only runs on tv.youtube.com. It reads the page you’re viewing and talks to YouTube TV as you, using the session you’re already signed in with, to show your guide, library and controls. That traffic is between your browser and YouTube TV, the same as using the site directly, and is covered by Google’s privacy policy. Pinch Remote doesn’t collect, store or share your YouTube TV information.
Children
Pinch Remote doesn’t knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.
Changes
If this policy changes, it will be updated here with a new date.