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@subhashhhhhh subhashhhhhh released this 09 Nov 15:52
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Velvet 1.0

Velvet is a native YouTube client for macOS. It uses much less memory than YouTube in a browser. This is the first public release.

Browse

  • Home, Subscriptions, Search, History, Watch Later, Playlists, Liked videos and channels.
  • Shorts, live streams and live chat.
  • Account notifications and optional macOS notifications for new uploads.

Watch

  • mpv playback with hardware decoding. Quality up to 4K and HDR.
  • Resume, captions, chapters, theater mode and loop.
  • SponsorBlock, DeArrow and Return YouTube Dislike.
  • Queue, playlists, series detection and Picture in Picture.
  • Downloads for offline viewing (they play in Velvet).
  • Comments, likes, subscriptions and Save to playlist.

YouTube links

  • Copy a YouTube link and switch to Velvet: it offers to open it.
  • Drag a link onto the window, use Open With, or add the bookmarklet from Settings › General to open the page that your browser shows.

Light on memory

  • Approximately 360 MB for a 1440p video. Safari uses approximately 1.4 GB for the same video.
  • No analytics and no telemetry. Your cookies stay on your Mac.

Requirements

  • macOS 15 or later.
  • Apple silicon or Intel. The Intel build is untested: it is built and checked, but nobody has run it on an Intel Mac yet. If you try it, please report what happens.

Velvet updates itself. It also updates yt-dlp and the JavaScript runtime.

Install

Homebrew (recommended; no Gatekeeper prompt):

brew install --cask subhashhhhhh/velvet/velvet

Or download the disk image for your Mac:

  • Apple silicon (M1 and later): Velvet-1.0-AppleSilicon.dmg
  • Intel: Velvet-1.0-Intel.dmg

Not sure which you have? Apple menu › About This Mac › Chip (Apple silicon) or Processor (Intel). Velvet needs macOS 15.0 or later.

Velvet isn't notarized by Apple, so the first time you open a downloaded copy macOS blocks it. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll to Security and click Open Anyway, or run:

xattr -cr /Applications/Velvet.app

Velvet updates itself from Settings › About. Checksums are in SHA256SUMS-1.0.txt.

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