Yattee: video player for Invidious and Piped built for iOS 15, tvOS 15 and macOS Monterey

Video player with support for Invidious and Piped instances built for iOS 15, tvOS 15 and macOS Monterey.

Features

Native user interface built with SwiftUI
Multiple instances and accounts, fast switching
SponsorBlock with selection of categories to skip
Player queue and history
Fullscreen playback and Picture in Picture
Stream quality selection
Favorites: customizable section of channels, playlists, trending, searches and other views
AirPlay support
Safari Extension for macOS and iOS for redirecting to the app
URL Scheme for easy integrations

Availability

Feature	Invidious	Piped
User Accounts	✅	?
Subscriptions	✅	?
Popular	✅	?
User Playlists	✅	?
Trending	✅	✅
Channels	✅	✅
Channel Playlists	✅	✅
Search	✅	✅
Search Suggestions	✅	✅
Search Filters	✅	?
Subtitles	?	✅

Installation

Requirements

Application is built using latest APIs, that’s why for now only recent software versions: iOS/tvOS 15 or macOS Monterey are supported.

How to install?

AltStore

You can sideload IPA files that you can download from Releases page.
Alternatively, if you have to access to the beta AltStore version (v1.5), you can add the following repository in Browse > Sources screen: https://alt.yattee.stream

Manual installation

Download sources and compile them on a Mac using Xcode, install to your devices. Please note that if you are not registered in Apple Developer Program then the applications will require reinstalling every 7 days.

Integrations

Safari

macOS and iOS apps include Safari extension which will redirect opened YouTube tabs to the app.

Firefox

You can use Privacy Redirect extension to make the videos open in the app. In extension settings put the following URL as Invidious instance: https://r.yatte.stream

macOS

With Finicky you can configure your systems so the video links across the entire system will get opened in the app. Example configuration:

{
  match: [
    finicky.matchDomains(/(.*\.)?youtube.com/),
    finicky.matchDomains(/(.*\.)?youtu.be/)
  ],
  browser: "/Applications/Yattee.app"
}

Screenshots

iOS

Player	Search	Playlists

iPadOS

Settings	Player	Subscriptions

tvOS

Player	Popular	Search	Now Playing	Settings

macOS

Player	Channel	Search	Settings

Tips

Settings

[tvOS] To open settings press Play/Pause button while hovering over navigation menu or video

Navigation

Use videos context menus to add to queue, open or subscribe channel and add to playlist
[tvOS] Pressing buttons in the app trigger switch to next available option (for example: next account in Settings). If you want to access list of all options, press and hold to open the context menu.
[iOS] Swipe the player/title bar: up to open fullscreen details view, bottom to close fullscreen details or hide player

Favorites

Add more sections using ❤️ button in views channels, playlists, searches, subscriptions and popular
[iOS/macOS] Reorganize with dragging and dropping
[iOS/macOS] Remove section with right click/press and hold on section name
[tvOS] Reorganize and remove from Settings > Edit Favorites...

Keyboard shortcuts

Command+1 – Favorites
Command+2 – Subscriptions
Command+3 – Popular
Command+4 – Trending
Command+F – Search
Command+P – Play/Pause
Command+S – Play Next
Command+O – Toggle Player

Contributing

Every contribution to make this tool better is very welcome. Start with creating issue to have discussion which can be later transformed into a Pull Request.

Review existing Issues and Pull Requests before creating new ones.

License and Liability

Yattee and its components is shared on AGPL v3 license.

Contributors take no responsibility for the use of the tool (Point 16. of the license). We strongly recommend you abide by the valid official regulations in your country. Furthermore, we refuse liability for any inappropriate use of the tool, such as downloading materials without proper consent.

This tool is an open source software built for learning and research purposes.

GitHub

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