YTM Desktop
There is no official YouTube Music app for macOS. YTM Desktop turns the web player into a lightweight, native app with its own Dock icon, media keys, Control Center integration and background playback.
Spotify and Apple Music have Mac apps. YouTube Music only has a browser tab that gets lost between twenty others, ignores your keyboard's play button and stops when you close the wrong window.
YTM Desktop fixes exactly that, and nothing more. It's a few hundred lines of Swift around Apple's own WebKit, so it starts fast, uses little memory and looks like it belongs on your Mac.
All of YouTube Music – your library, playlists, mixes, lyrics and Premium – inside a window that behaves like a real Mac app.
Play/pause, next and previous from your keyboard, Touch Bar or AirPods – no browser extension needed.
One clean entry in Control Center with artwork, previous / play / next and a scrubber – just like Apple Music.
Closing the window only hides it. Click the Dock icon to bring it back; quit with ⌘Q when you're done.
Artwork and gradients run all the way under the window buttons, the search is centered and the UI never rubber-bands.
Sign in once with your Google account. The app talks only to YouTube Music – no analytics, no telemetry, no ads of its own.
Native Swift + WebKit instead of a bundled Chromium. Universal binary for Apple Silicon and Intel.
Dark, full-bleed and focused on the music. Keyboard shortcuts for everything you do often.
YTM Desktop is not notarized by Apple (that needs a paid developer account), so macOS asks you to confirm the first launch once.
Download YTM-Desktop.zip and move YTM Desktop.app into your Applications folder.
Open the app once. When macOS blocks it, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. Or run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/YTM Desktop.app"
Click Sign in and log in with your Google account (email + password). You stay signed in from now on.
No. On macOS Google only offers YouTube Music in the browser. YTM Desktop wraps the official web player (music.youtube.com) in a native Mac window, so everything works exactly as on the website.
Yes. You sign in with your own Google account, so Premium, your library, uploads and playlists are all there. Free accounts work too, ads included, just like in the browser.
macOS only gives passkeys and Password AutoFill to Safari and apps that Google has officially associated with its domain. Choose “Try another way” → “Enter your password” on the Google sign-in page. You only need to do this once.
None. The app has no analytics and no server of its own. It's a single Swift file you can read in a few minutes. Your Google session is stored by macOS's WebKit, like in Safari.
Any Mac with macOS 14 Sonoma or newer. The download is a universal app for Apple Silicon (M1 and later) and Intel.
Für alle, die ihr YouTube-Music-Abo einfach wie eine richtige App auf dem Mac nutzen wollen: kostenlos, Open Source, ohne Tracking.