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24 alternatives to Rey

Re-imagined Youtube Music Player For Desktop (WebApp)

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Rey launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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YouTube Music▲254
Google's YouTube app built just for music
2015 · music.youtube.com · its alternatives →
2
Youtube Looper▲225
Loop any YouTube video or YouTube music song
2024 · youtubelooper.com · its alternatives →
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Music Player for YouTube▲12
2016 · zinamen.com · its alternatives →
4
YTMP▲104
Play YouTube videos as audio in background without ads
2021 · ytmp.itsvg.in · its alternatives →
5
Youtube Music for Desktop▲6
Youtube Music but on your Desktop
2021 · youtube-music.app · its alternatives →
6
Streamus (new version)▲140
Turns YouTube into the music player
2015 · its alternatives →
7
Headset – Desktop YouTube Music Player▲9
Desktop music player built on YouTube and Reddit
2017 · headsetapp.co · its alternatives →
8
Headset▲187
Personal music player for Youtube and Reddit
2017 · headsetapp.co · its alternatives →
9
YTMDesktop App▲6
Free cross platform Desktop Player for YouTube Music
2020 · ytmdesktop.app · its alternatives →
10
PlayTube▲69
Makes YouTube into great music streaming service (chrome)
2014 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
11
Simple access to your music from the web▲217
bespoke music player for web. Contribute to DusteDdk/dstream development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
12
YouTube MP3 Player▲4
Listen YouTube at background
2018 · yt-mp3.surge.sh · its alternatives →
13
YT Music▲119
An unofficial Mac app for YouTube Music
2018 · ytmusic.app · its alternatives →
14
Songstream Player▲74
Free, fast mp3 streaming with songs/playlist from YouTube
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
15
Music Mode for YouTube▲115
A distraction-free way to listen to music
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
16
Play▲92
Music lovers, rejoice. Music videos with insider song facts.
2017 · its alternatives →
17
MusicPlus▲5
Youtube Music Player for Mac, Windows & Android
2019 · musicplus.io · its alternatives →
18
Music Max▲62
A minimalistic music player for YouTube
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
19
Backtube▲53
Playlist sharing, music streaming aggregator
2021 · its alternatives →
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We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS▲71
Audio player for musicians and DJs
May 2026 · advanced-research.net · its alternatives →
21
Free Music▲66
Enjoy any song, anytime and save your internet data
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
22
Home Music School▲89
Learn to play any song on any instrument from YouTube!
2025 · homemusicschool.app · its alternatives →
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YouTube Musical Spectrum – visualizer for YouTube with musical notes▲72
Dear, This is an update from first submission [1]. New features: - add Hz scale - add YT Music support - add microphone recording - add scale (x and y) options to reduce CPU usage [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28135562
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Android Music Player That Can Download YouTube and Bilibili Music▲5
It's a music player designed for Android platform. However, you can build it for Linux that is my development environment. If you want to build a Macos, ios or Windows version, you can try it without guarantee it will work. It's based on Flutter and Rust.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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