16 Free YouTube Music Clients for Linux, Windows, macOS and Android
YouTube Music is a popular streaming service offering access to millions of songs, playlists, and music videos. While it provides a vast library and personalized recommendations, using the default YouTube Music app has some downsides, including intrusive ads, limited offline access, and restricted background playback.
Free YouTube Music clients for Linux, Windows, macOS, and Android offer a better experience by removing ads, enabling offline playback, and supporting background listening.
These clients enhance the YouTube Music experience, providing users with more control and a seamless, ad-free music experience across different platforms.
Here, are our top picks.
1- InnerTune (Android)
InnerTune is a free and open-source privacy-focused YouTube Music Player for Android systems. You can download it and use it for free from F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid or built it from the source-code.
Features
- Play songs from YT/YT Music without ads
- Background playback
- Search songs, videos, albums, and playlists from YouTube Music
- Login support
- Cache and download songs for offline playback
- Synchronized lyrics
- Lyrics translator
- Skip silence
- Audio normalization
- Adjust tempo/pitch
- Dynamic theme
- Android Auto support
- Personalized quick picks
- Discord Rich Presence support
z-huang2- YouTube Music (Desktop)
This is a free YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader). It has dozens of useful plugin that extend its features which makes it a reliable free YouTube Music app for end-users.
It works on Windows, Linux and macOS.
th-ch3- YouTube Music Desktop App
Yet another free YouTube Music app client for Windows, Linux and macOS.
Features
- Media key support
- Built-in lyrics viewer
- Desktop notification
- Taskbar media controls
- Autoupdate
- Mini Player
- Background player
- Integrates with Discord, Last.fm, Rainmeter
ytmdesktop4- ViMusic (Android)
ViMusic is a free and open-sourceAndroid application for streaming music from YouTube Music.
Features
- Play (almost) any song or video from YouTube Music
- Background playback
- Cache audio chunks for offline playback
- Search for songs, albums, artists videos and playlists
- Bookmark artists and albums
- Import playlists
- Fetch, display and edit songs lyrics or synchronized lyrics
- Local playlist management
- Reorder songs in playlist or queue
- Light/Dark/Dynamic theme
- Skip silence
- Sleep timer
- Audio normalization
- Android Auto
- Persistent queue
- Open YouTube/YouTube Music links (
watch,playlist,channel)
vfsfitvnm5- SpMp (Android & Desktop)
A YouTube Music client with a focus on customisation of colours and song metadata, built using Compose Multiplatform for Android and desktop
Features
- Edit song, artist, and playlist titles
- Select multiple songs for batch actions on any screen
- Customisable colour theming throughout the app
- Use a colour from the current song's thumbnail
- Or use a custom colour set per-song or globally
- Display app UI and metadata like song titles in separate languages
- In-app YouTube Music login
- Display time-synchronised lyrics from KuGou and PetitLyrics
- Timed lyrics are displayed in a toggleable bar above every app page
- Furigana (readings) display above Japanese kanji within lyrics
- Pin any song, playlist, album, or artist to the top of the main page
- Customisable Discord rich presence
- Easily insert songs at any position in the queue
toasterofbread6- YouMusic (Android)
YouMusic is an Ad-Free and Free YouTube Music/MP3 Download and Listening Application - The first version of YouMusic is live. Now you can use all premium features of YouTube for free and without ads. Make your own music library with any song from YouTube. No ads, free, and simple.
Features
- Play songs without ads
- Browse almost any YouTube Music page
- Search songs, albums, videos and playlists from YouTube Music
- Open YouTube Music links
- Save songs, albums and playlists in local database
- Download music for offline playback
- Like songs
- local playlist management
- Add links to your favorite YouTube Music playlists
- Export downloaded songs via SAF
- Material design player
- Lockscreen playback
- Cache songs
- (Synchronized) lyrics
- Skip silence
- Audio normalization
- Stat for nerds
- Persistent queue
- Custom themes
- Dark theme
- Localization
- Proxy
- Backup & restore
- Support Android Auto
TeamYouDown7- Drip (Desktop)
Drip is a free and open-source YouTube Music client for Desktop.
Spsden8- RiMusic (Android)
RiMusic is a multilingual Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music. It began as an extension of ViMusic, then acquired its own identity.
Features
- Multilingual support: English, Italian, German, Russian, French, Spanish, Czech, Turkish, Romanian and more. Contributions for other languages are welcome
- UI Mode, change style from RiMusic to classic ViMusic style and viceversa
- Play songs from YouTube Music
- Change your favorite language from settings
- Auto cache songs for offline playback with a custom cache size
- Download songs or entire playlists for offline playback (not cache)
- Background playback with stop when app swipe out from task manager
- Minimized player optimizations
- Listening statistics
- Audio visualizer on player with many type of effects. THIS FEATURES REQUIRE MIC PERMISSION, ONLY AVAILABLE IF ACTIVATED FROM SETTINGS. BY DEFAULT IT IS DISABLED
- News, mood and musical genres
- New albums from favourite artists
- Search for songs, albums, artists and playlists
- Bookmark artists and albums
- Import online playlists
- Local playlist management
- Export/Import local playlist, can share with friend RiMusic playlist
- Reorder songs in playlist or queue
- Persistent queue
- Clear queue
- Share menu with support for YouTube and YouTube Music links
- Fetch, display, edit and translate synchronized, or not, songs lyrics
- Light, Dark, Dynamic, PureBlack and ModernBack themes
- Sleep timer with customizable time
- Audio control panel: control volume of app and device, playback speed and pitch
- Audio normalization
- Audio auto-skip silence
- Android Auto support
- Android TV support
- Check for Updates, which can be enabled or disabled in settings
fast4x9- SimpMusic (Android)
This is a FOSS YouTube Music client for Android with many features from
Spotify, Musixmatch, SponsorBlock, ReturnYouTubeDislike. You can download it for free from F-Droid store as well as IzzyOnDroid Store.
Features
- Play music from YouTube Music or YouTube free without ads in the background
- Browsing Home, Charts, Podcast, Moods & Genre with YouTube Music data at high speed
- Search everything on YouTube
- Analyze your playing data, create custom playlists, and sync with YouTube Music...
- Spotify Canvas supported
- Play 1080p video option with subtitle
- AI suggestions songs
- Notification from followed artists
- Caching and can save data for offline playback
- Synced lyrics from Musixmatch, LRCLIB, Spotify (require login) and YouTube Transcript and translated lyrics (Community translation from Musixmatch)
- Personalize data (*) and multi-YouTube-account support
- Support SponsorBlock, Return YouTube Dislike
- Sleep Timer
- Android Auto with online content
maxrave-dev10- YouTube-Music (macOS)
This is an open-source simple Mac app wrapper using WKWebView for YouTube Music that allows YouTube Music to run as a standalone process.
Features
- Media Keys
- Keyboard shortcuts
- "Now Playing" Notification Center widget
- Touch Bar media controls and scrubber
- System notifications when a new track plays
steve228uk11- Unofficial-Desktop-YouTube-Music
This is yet another YouTube Music player that is built using Electron to work on desktop as macOS, Linux and Windows.
Features
- Super lightweight.
- Faster performance than Spotify, with a larger selection of songs.
- Discord Rich Presence.
- Full YouTube Music functionality.
- Log in.
- Saves login credentials.
- Create, delete, and manage playlists.
- Loop, like, dislike, and share songs.
- Spotify-like desktop functions.
- Persistent window that hides when closed.
- Control the window with the tray icon.
- Pause, play, skip, and go back to the previous song using the tray.
- Pause, play, skip, and go back to the previous song using the Windows thumbar buttons.
- Media key support.
- Optional open on startup that defaults to off.
- Paste song links to jump to them.
- Works with most YouTube links, even incomplete/invalid ones.
- Automatic updates.
- Windows progress bar support.
- Togglable always on top button.
- Song downloader.
- Not easy and not coming soon.
- Adjustable playback speed.
- Advertisements play at 16 times speed.
Kyza12- Music You (Android)
Music You is a free Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music.
Features
- Background playback
- Cache songs for offline playback
- Material You
- Multilingual support
- Quick picks selection customization
- Search for songs, albums, artists, videos and playlists
- Bookmark artists and albums
- Import playlists and manage local playlists
- Fetch, display and edit songs lyrics or synchronized lyrics
- Open YouTube and YouTube Music links by default
- Player features, such as sleep timer and persistent queue
- Audio features, such as skip silence and audio normalization
- Other features, such as Android Auto support and invincible service
DanielSevillano13- LibreTube
LibreTube is a free and open-source YouTube frontend app for Android systems.
14- OuterTune (Android)
OuterTune is a free and open-source Material 3 YouTube Music client for Android.
Features
- Play, search, and save all your songs, videos, albums, and playlists from YouTube Music
- Background playback & AD free
- Advanced account sync
- YouTube Music account login support
- Fully fledged syncing of songs, playlists and albums — both to and from your account
- Library management
- Cache and download songs for offline playback
- Personalized quick picks
- Local media playback
- Play local and Youtube Music songs at the same time
- We don't use MediaStore's broken metadata extractor!
- Synchronized lyrics (LRC format, also includes multi-line support)
- Audio normalization, tempo/pitch adjustment, and various other audio effects
- Dynamic Material theme & localization
- New integrated library screen design
- Android Auto support
DD3Boh15- YTerMusic (desktop)
YTerMusic is a TUI based Youtube Music Player that aims to be as fast and simple as possible. It is written in Rust language.
It is available for Windows, Linux and macOS.
Features
- Play your Youtube Music Playlist and Supermix.
- Memory efficient (Around 20MB of RAM while fully loaded)
- Cache all downloads and store them
- Work even without connection (If musics were already downloaded)
- Automatic background download manager
- Playlist selector
- Error message display in the TUI
- Enable connection less music playing
- A download limit to stop downloading after the queue is full
- Mouse support
- Search
- Custom theming
ccgauche16- YouTube Music (Desktop)
Beautiful Youtube Music desktop app that includes several customizations for users and developers.
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