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, configurable categories to skip
• Player queue and history
• Fullscreen playback, Picture in Picture and AirPlay support
• Stream quality selection
• Favorites: customizable section of channels, playlists, trending, searches and other views
• URL Scheme for integrations

Availability

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

Installation

Requirements

Only iOS/tvOS 15 and 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

macOS

With Finicky you can configure your system to open all the video links in the app. Example configuration:

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

Experimental: Safari

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

Expermiental: 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

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

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.