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    ytmdesktop

    ytmdesktop/ytmdesktop

    A Desktop App for YouTube Music

    web
    app
    desktop
    discord
    electron
    electron-application
    TypeScript
    GPL-3.0
    6.7K stars
    638 forks
    6.7K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 1, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 4 days ago, with 81 contributors on GitHub.

    Gained 6% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • A desktop application that provides a dedicated YouTube Music player across Windows, macOS, and Linux using Electron and TypeScript.
    • Offers a native app experience with offline capabilities and system integration, unlike browser-based YouTube Music access.
    • Use for enjoying YouTube Music with native desktop controls and notifications on multiple operating systems.
    • Use for integrating YouTube Music playback with Discord and scrobbling services for enhanced social and tracking features.
    • Use for developers wanting to build or customize a cross-platform music player leveraging Electron and modern JavaScript tooling.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    GPL 3.0

    Copyleft: distributing software that includes it generally requires releasing your source under the same license.

    Community files

    • README: present

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    • GPL-style copyleft: including it in distributed software generally requires releasing your source under the same license.

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    From the README

    To build for your platform you need to run yarn make, however please see the information below regarding the required additionally Software, Tools and Packages which are needed to successfully package into a nice installer file.

    To download the full suite of Tools/Software needed to build the app it is recommended to install the suite of build tools that electron provide which includes Visual Studio, Python and other tools.

    npm i -g @electron/build-tools

    This will start downloading and installing, and may require a few prompts here and there to finalise everything.

    Excerpt from the ytmdesktop/ytmdesktop README on GitHub (GPL-3.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    638+49

    Open issues

    310-27

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