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24 alternatives to YT Music

An unofficial Mac app for YouTube Music

YT Music is an unofficial Mac app that wraps the YouTube Music web player into a native desktop application. It is designed for Mac users who want to listen to music from YouTube Music with a dedicated app rather than… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. YT Music launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
YouTube Music for Mac▲10
A Mac app wrapper for YouTube Music
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
2
YT to MP3 Converter ▲64
Convert & download YT videos online for free
2023 · its alternatives →
3
YouTube Music▲254
Google's YouTube app built just for music
2015 · music.youtube.com · its alternatives →
4
YTranscribe▲107
The app that helps you learn music faster
2023 · ytranscribe.com · its alternatives →
5
YTMP▲104
Play YouTube videos as audio in background without ads
2021 · ytmp.itsvg.in · its alternatives →
6
Softorino YouTube Converter▲332
Download YouTube video & audio. Watch and listen offline
2015 · softorino.com · its alternatives →
7
Kiwi Music Player▲85
Listen to any track on youtube on this Mac App
2015 · its alternatives →
8
YTMDesktop App▲6
Free cross platform Desktop Player for YouTube Music
2020 · ytmdesktop.app · its alternatives →
9
A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp▲319
A clean and minimal youtube frontend, without all the ads and whistles - christian-fei/my-yt
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
10
playAppleMusic.com▲89
An (unofficial) web player for Apple Music
2018 · playapplemusic.com · its alternatives →
11
DaftCloud for macOS▲269
The Unofficial SoundCloud App for macOS
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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YTT Tech – My curated database of instructional YouTube Videos▲206
2021 · ytt-tech.com · its alternatives →
13
Headset▲187
Personal music player for Youtube and Reddit
2017 · headsetapp.co · its alternatives →
14GM
Google Music for Mac▲193
2014 · kbhomes.github.io · its alternatives →
15
YouTube-dl wrapper with added features to easily manage YouTube audio▲91
A simple, configurable youtube-dl wrapper to download and manage youtube audio - RijulGulati/yt-audio
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
16
Lofimusic.app, an open source Background Music Progressive Web Appfree▲136
Listen to Lo-fi music radio Taiki on the Lofimusic open-source player: an installable Progressive Web app (PWA) written in Go (Golang).
2020 · lofimusic.app · its alternatives →
17
yt downloader▲6
mp3 yt downloader
2024 · its alternatives →
18
Sndtst▲124
8-bit video game music
2014 · sndtst.com · its alternatives →
19
Music Widget for Apple Music on macOS▲98
A take on the classic iTunes Widget
2021 · marioaguzman.github.io · its alternatives →
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YTBmp3▲52
Terminated.
2017 · manerrors.com · its alternatives →
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Bop.fm (YC S13) iOS App – Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud in One Music App▲39
The latest macOS offers the world’s best way to play — and add to — your collection of music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
2014 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Backtube▲53
Playlist sharing, music streaming aggregator
2021 · its alternatives →
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yt to mp3▲8
yt to mp3
2024 · its alternatives →
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YouTag - The Ultimate iOS YouTube Player▲6
Swift project to play songs based on user curated playlist
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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