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YouTube Music, without the browser.
A fast, free YouTube Music client. No account and no API key. A desktop app for Windows, a terminal app for Linux. Search, queue, download, read the lyrics, keep your playlists.
For Windows and Linux. Free and open source, under the MIT licence.
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A desktop app for Windows, and a terminal app for Linux.
Terminal app for Linux
curl -fsSL https://anas1412.github.io/ytmgo/install.sh | bash What you get
The same things in both apps.
Search with no key
Talks to YouTube Music’s own API directly. No account, no API key, no proxy. Exact songs with real metadata and covers.
Radio that follows you
When the queue runs dry, ytmgo adds what YouTube Music would play next, seeded by what you have actually listened to.
Downloads in one step
Keep any song, or a whole album in its own folder, as M4A or MP3. One at a time, with progress.
Playlists of your own
Make them, reorder them, or paste a YouTube or Spotify playlist link and keep it as it is.
Favourites, follows, likes
Heart songs, follow artists, like albums. Your history and favourites stay on your computer.
Synced lyrics
The current line follows the song. Lyrics are cached locally, so a replay is instant.
Your own music, too
Point ytmgo at your music folders and they show in the Library beside your downloads.
Artist and album pages
Open whoever made a song: their top songs, then the whole discography. One song becomes a catalogue.
Last.fm and Discord
Scrobble what you hear and show it in your Discord status. Last.fm connects in your browser; no password is typed into the app.
Windows app or terminal app
| What | Windows app | Linux terminal app |
|---|---|---|
| Runs on | Windows 10 and 11 | Linux, x86_64 and arm64 |
| You use it with | Mouse, with keyboard shortcuts | Keyboard first, with full mouse support |
| Drag and drop, right-click menu | Yes | No |
| Home with new releases from artists you follow | Yes | No |
| Playlists, favourites, lyrics, downloads | Yes | Yes |
| Last.fm, Discord, your own music folders | Yes | Yes |
| Visualizer and album art in the terminal | No | Yes |
| Updates | From inside the app, in one click | The install script, or your AUR helper |
| Needs installing first | Nothing, yt-dlp comes with it | mpv, yt-dlp and ffmpeg, which the script offers to install |
Free, and yours to read.
ytmgo is open source under the MIT licence. It keeps your library, history and settings on your own computer, and needs no account to use.