Kaset

A native macOS client for YouTube Music and YouTube, built with Swift and SwiftUI.

Features

🎵 Native macOS Experience — Apple Music-style UI with Liquid Glass player bars, clean sidebar navigation, and a source toggle for Music ↔ YouTube
🎧 YouTube Music Support — Full playback of DRM-protected YouTube Music content via your existing Premium subscription
▶️ YouTube Support — Browse regular YouTube recommendations, search, subscriptions, Shorts, Watch Later, history, comments, and video playback with native controls, captions, quality selection, and picture in picture
🎛️ System Integration — Now Playing in Control Center, media key support, Dock menu controls
📳 Haptic Feedback — Tactile feedback on Force Touch trackpads for player controls and navigation
🎶 Track Notifications — Get notified when a new track starts playing
🔊 Background Audio — Music continues playing when the window is closed; stops on quit
🎚️ Equalizer — System-wide 6-band parametric EQ with Spotify-style presets, applied to WebKit playback output
⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts — Full keyboard control for playback, navigation, and more
🧭 Explore — Discover new releases, charts, and moods & genres
🎙️ Podcasts — Browse and listen to podcasts with episode progress tracking
📚 Library Access — Browse playlists, liked songs, and subscribed podcasts; create playlists, add songs to playlists, and delete your own playlists
🕓 History — Revisit recently played tracks
🔍 Search — Find songs, albums, artists, playlists, and podcasts
🌍 Localized — Available in English, French, Korean, Indonesian, Turkish, and Arabic
✨ Apple Intelligence — On-device AI for natural language commands, lyrics explanations, and playlist refinement on macOS 26+
📜 Lyrics — View plain and synced lyrics with line-by-line highlighting when timing data is available, plus AI-powered explanations and mood analysis on macOS 26+
📃 Queue Management — View, reorder, shuffle, and clear your playback queue
📣 Share — Share songs, playlists, albums, and artists via the native macOS share sheet
🔗 URL Scheme — Open songs directly with kaset://play?v=VIDEO_ID; app-targeted YouTube watch and youtu.be links play in YouTube mode
🤖 AppleScript Support — Automate playback with scripts, Raycast, Alfred, and Shortcuts
🧩 Extensions — Load WebKit Web Extensions, including uBlock Origin Lite

Requirements

macOS 15.4 or later
Apple Intelligence features require macOS 26.0 or later
Google account for YouTube Music and YouTube personalization

Installation

Download

Download the latest release from the Releases page.

Homebrew

bash
brew install sozercan/repo/kaset

Note: The app is not signed.
If you downloaded the app manually, you can clear extended attributes (including quarantine) with:
bash
xattr -cr /Applications/Kaset.app

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup, architecture, and coding guidelines.

We welcome AI-assisted contributions! You can submit traditional PRs or prompt requests — share the AI prompt that generates your changes, and maintainers can review the intent before running the code. See the AI-Assisted Contributions section for details.

Disclaimer

Kaset is an unofficial application and not affiliated with YouTube or Google Inc. in any way. "YouTube", "YouTube Music" and the "YouTube Logo" are registered trademarks of Google Inc.