Native, end to end
SwiftUI and Liquid Glass — real materials, real vibrancy, native menus and media keys. Built for the Mac, head to toe.
A player for all
your music.
A native Mac YouTube Music client in SwiftUI with Liquid Glass — a Dynamic Island for your music, offline downloads, and on-device lyrics. Your entire library in one window.
open source · GPL-3.0 · built in SwiftUI
Everything built in. No extensions. No cloud. No account required.
Native SwiftUINotch islandOffline downloadsOn-device lyricsLocal-only stats
The idea
All your music. One player.
Sign in with your Google account and your whole YouTube Music world — playlists, likes, recommendations — flows straight into a native Mac app. One library, one queue, one beautiful player.
Inside Rift
Your whole library, home.
Featured playlists, recently played, and your top artists — the moment you open Rift.
Now Playing, in full.
Full-window album art, a live scrubber, and transport — Liquid Glass throughout.
Lyrics that keep time.
Synced lyrics with optional on-device transliteration and translation — even non-Latin scripts.
Every artist, in depth.
Bio, monthly listeners, top songs, albums, and one-tap radio — all native.
Search all of YouTube Music.
Trending charts, your recents, and top artists — the full catalog, one field.
Your playlists, your way.
Liked Music, your playlists and downloads — local-first, synced when you sign in.
HomeNow Playing
Lyrics
Artist
Search
LibraryBuilt like it belongs
Everything a player should be.
A living notch
Album art and an equalizer peek beside the camera while music plays. Hover, and the island blooms into a full transport.
Offline, properly
Download songs and keep them. Streams cache for instant replay. Your library doesn’t vanish with your Wi-Fi.
Lyrics, translated on-device
Built-in synced lyrics — and optional local AI (Apple Intelligence or Ollama) that transliterates and translates them. Nothing leaves your Mac.
Your listening, charted
Top songs, top artists, listening clocks by hour and weekday — computed and stored on your Mac only.
Radio that never stops
Queue runs out? Rift keeps going with recommendations seeded by what you actually play — and resumes where you left off across launches.
On-device AI
Understand and translate lyrics with local models. No API key. No account. No data leaving your machine.
The notch
It lives in the notch.
A Dynamic Island beside your camera: album art and a dancing equalizer while you play. Hover, and it expands into a full transport — scrub, skip, like, all without leaving what you’re doing.
The island lives in the notch when you have one, and tucks away when you don’t.
Made for macOS
It behaves like a Mac app because it is one.
Swift and SwiftUI throughout, with Liquid Glass materials and system integration wherever it counts.
Media keys & Control CenterMenu-bar playerBackground playbackSystem share sheetGlobal shortcutsResume across launchesNear-gapless preloadingAnonymous mode, no account
Your listening stays
on your Mac.
History, stats, likes, playlists — stored locally, computed locally. No telemetry, no analytics, no cloud middleman. Credentials live in the macOS Keychain and nowhere else.
No telemetryNo analyticsKeychain-only credentials
Where this is going
The YouTube Music client the Mac deserved.
Your full catalog, your playlists and likes, real recommendations, two-way sync — all in a native Mac app that behaves like one.
Connected — YouTube Music
Install in a minute
Download, drag to Applications, done.
Free and open source, in active development on the way to 1.0 — expect sparks.
Requires macOS 26 Tahoe · Streaming uses yt-dlp under the hood.
Built in the open
Free. Open source. Built for people who miss real Mac apps.
Star on GitHubProtocol & design references — ytmusicapi · OuterTune · Atoll · pear-desktop.