YouTube Music for macOS

A lightweight native macOS wrapper for YouTube Music with system integration.

Features

• Native macOS app — No Electron, just a lean WebKit wrapper
• Media key support — Control playback with your keyboard's play/pause, next, and previous keys
• Now Playing integration — See track info in Control Center with album artwork
• Discord Rich Presence — Show what you're listening to on Discord
• Frameless design — Clean, minimal window that blends with YouTube Music's UI
• Native scrollbars — macOS-style scrollbars for a consistent look

Screenshots

Control Center	Discord Rich Presence

Installation

Homebrew (Recommended)

brew tap 0xjemm/youtube-music-macos
brew install --cask youtube-music-macos
xattr -cr /Applications/YouTube\ Music.app

Manual

1. Download the latest release from Releases
2. Extract and drag to Applications
3. Run xattr -cr /Applications/YouTube\ Music.app (required for unnotarized apps)
4. Open and sign in to YouTube Music

Building from Source

1. Clone the repository
2. Copy Secrets.example.swift to Secrets.swift
3. Add your Discord Application ID (optional, for Discord Rich Presence)
4. Open youtube-music-player.xcodeproj in Xcode
5. Build and run (⌘R)

Discord Rich Presence Setup

1. Go to Discord Developer Portal
2. Create a new application
3. Copy the Application ID
4. Paste it in Secrets.swift

Requirements

• macOS 14.0 (Sonoma) or later
• Xcode 16+ (for building)

License

MIT