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

Yattee

Last update: Dec 27, 2022

Related tags

Video app

Overview

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.

Comments

New player component for 4K and better controls: mpv?

I understand the limitations of the iOS native video player, but I didn't see a request for it here. The VLC player solution seems like a good proposition, hopefully it can be implemented.

4K video quality with working playback speed adjustment on my Apple TV and iPad would be perfect!
enhancement help wanted

opened by Deagan 19
Invidious not refreshing subscriptions

I'm on the latest beta build (1.3 build 16) v1.3-rc on both my Apple TV and iPhone, my subscriptions don't seem to refresh automatically and also not when done manually. My subscriptions on the Invidious site do change.

opened by Jenni32222 10
Invidious seems to crash app

Using beta 4 release on an iPhone XS Max running iOS 15.1. Using the app using Piped will simply work and play videos, however when adding an Invidious instance, thumbnails and videos will not work. When trying to play a video, the app will freeze and crash after a couple of seconds.
bug iOS

opened by Jenni32222 8
more (missing) resolutions and Format support for AVPlayer in v1.4

Currently, AVPlayer in v1.4 (as of build 82) supports only 3 resolutions and 1 format: 720p (stream), 360p (stream), 144p (stream).

and there are missing resolutions like 240p, 480p, 1080p and also the format like HLS.

I hope this is fixed.

ps. I'm reporting more of AVPlayer recently because I find this convenient from time to time. hope AVPlayer looks as normal as possible.

opened by bachig26 5
SponsorBlock not working for outros/end of videos (iOS)

SponsorBlock doesn't seem to skip outros, they appear in the seek bar (as coloured red), but aren't skipped. I think this might actually have to do with SponsorBlock not skipping sections that go to the end of the video in general, rather than the "outro" subset being the issue, but I haven't found a test case that has an ending that isn't an "outro" yet (or an outro that isn't an ending). However SponsorBlock works fine for skipping sections that aren't at the end of videos.

(Note: this doesn't seem to effect intros/skipped segments that start at the beginning of videos, so this seems to be an issue just for endings).

Also, this is a separate issue to #162 which was resolved.
bug

opened by DEFCON001 5
[Enhancement] PiP option from popup menu's
From the image below, you may see the options available as in/from popup options when you press and hold the videos/contents.

This issue is to request to add an Open in PiP directly in the popup menu for easy access.

Mainly, I'm addressing this request from my experience as this will really help in most use case. One doesn't need to open the video page and put the video in PiP and go back to the other app. This will reduce the few steps and hassle for PiP access.

enhancement
opened by bachig26 5
[Request] distribute the yattee through AltStore

This issue is to request for the possible distribution of the yattee app through the Altstore, an alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices.

What I found in the Alstore Readme.md, he began to support other developers to distribute their apps if they want to do it, in addition to the .ipa based install.

opened by bachig26 5
Saved Playlists

I’m having issues with playlists with Invidious, the playlists I’ve saved on the website don’t seem to be syncing over to the app. Playlists I’ve created are syncing just fine, but with saved playlists the playlist is syncing but the videos inside aren’t
enhancement

opened by jacklroberts 4
PWA Support

Make yattee support PWA for iOS devices including iPhones & iPads similar to how revolt.chat does their pwa support for their discord alternative platform

opened by UnixPhonez 4
[Bug] [iOS] app crash after video playback

yattee app gets crashed and terminated after the video playback ended.

in my case, this issue happened in fullscreen mode. This error occurs to me at least 2 out of 5 times of the app use. and sometimes, after the end of the video, the app goes to the Favorites page [this problem happened at the normal portrait mode].

yattee version: v1.3.2 iOS version: 15.4
bug unreproducible

opened by bachig26 4
[UI Interaction Improvement] Make the player hide action more inertial.

For example like when hiding the player in Apple Music, it feels more “inertial” ie. the panel moves along with my finger. It feels more natural and fluid:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/72332949/146665026-61db0564-90ab-456f-b189-81ab25630c3e.MOV

In Yattee it feels like flicking, unresponsive and less intuitive:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/72332949/146665061-afd7c85d-21e7-4fda-b7f1-b7b0b2ac7187.MOV

opened by chadify 4
Option to disable auto play
Guidelines

[X] I have searched the issue tracker and I haven't found feature request like this

Type

Usability improvement

Describe the feature

Sometimes I just want to read the comments of a video without loading the video data.

An option to disable auto play would be welcome.
enhancement
opened by bbsixzz 0
display sponsorblock stats
Guidelines

[X] I have searched the issue tracker and I haven't found feature request like this

Type

New feature, Improvement to existing feature

Describe the feature

display sponsorblock stats in the menu of sponsorblock
enhancement
opened by nobaraos12 0
Piped VOD playback issue
Guidelines

[X] I have searched the issue tracker and I haven't found bug report like this

Current Behavior

After a live stream is finished and turns into a VOD, for a couple of hours afterward it isn't watchable. It will only play the last few seconds, and nothing earlier. Scrubbing back further in the video does work. I mostly notice this with the WAN show as most people I follow don't live stream.

Expected Behavior

The VOD would play from the beginning.

Device & OS Version

iPhone 8+, IOS 16.1.2

App Build

1.4.2 build 112

App Settings

No response

Crash log

No response

Screenshots, Videos and other files

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/52843537/210128632-a60daa6d-7f12-437f-ab85-f1687f0eb404.mov
bug
opened by Insprill 0
Match options - control buttons and action buttons
Guidelines

[X] I have searched the issue tracker and I haven't found feature request like this

Type

Usability improvement

Describe the feature

Please match control options, settings is already available in both for example.

I find it much easier to use the larger action buttons in general, I was looking to add Music Mode as an action button.

enhancement
opened by bbsixzz 0
Option to disable badge count subscriptions
Guidelines

[x] I have searched the issue tracker and I haven't found feature request like this

Type

Usability improvement

Describe the feature

Can you please allow disabling of the subscription badges?

Cheers
enhancement
opened by bbsixzz 0

Releases(v1.4.2)

v1.4.2(Dec 6, 2022)
What's Changed

Improved channels

Show banner and thumbnail

Show number of total videos views and verified status (if available)

Add menu for switching content types (Videos/Playlists/Live streams…)

Moved Subscribe/Favorite actions to the menu (iOS)

Removed background from player controls

Fixed issue where some URLs opened via Share Sheet would not be parsed properly

Fixed issue with saving video watching time/status

Fixed issue with SponsorBlock segments not resetting after switching to local video playback

Fixed issue where closing and opening player would change visible tab

Fixed issue where any account credentials would be incorrectly marked as valid

Performance improvements (Search and others)

Added Chinese (Simplified) localization, updated other languages

Other minor improvements

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.4.1-beta.1...v1.4.2
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Yattee-1.4.2-iOS.ipa(13.05 MB)
Yattee-1.4.2-macOS.zip(37.17 MB)
Yattee-1.4.2-tvOS.ipa(13.58 MB)
v1.4.1-beta.1(Nov 25, 2022)

• Playing video files and URLs • Play any MPV/AVPlayer supported video and audio from Files app (iOS) • Play any video and audio from your hard drive (macOS) • Play video and audio from a URL (all platforms) • New "Home" tab • Replaces and includes "Favorites" • Includes files quick actions buttons: open from Files, paste URL, show "Open Videos" • Includes recently added Documents and button to refresh (iOS) • Includes history of last played items and button to clear history • Settings > Browsing: • Show/Hide tab • Show/Hide quick actions buttons • Number of history items to show • Number of recent documents to show (iOS) • Show/Hide Favorites • Show/Hide toolbar button for open • Favorites order is now managed from settings • "Documents" tab (iOS) • Allows to store files via iTunes File Sharing • Allows directory traversing and deleting files from context menu • Refresh with pull to refresh • New "Open Videos" view • Text field for pasting URLs • Option to select playback mode and if queue should be cleared before opening videos • New layout for player buttons • Video actions buttons: • Share • Add to Playlist • Subscribe/Unsubscribe • Hide Player • Close Video • New switcher for details pages, floats on bottom, possible to swipe between buttons to switch pages, lowers opacity when not in use • Inspector tab presenting video/audio track and file details • Settings > Player: • Show/Hide labels for buttons switcher • Show inspector page always or only for local files and URLs • Toolbar position: left, center, right • Playback rate will be now preserved between app restarts • More available playback rates for MPV: 0.25, 0.33, 0.5, 0.67, 0.75, 1, 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, 2, 3, 4 • Safari extension is removed... • ...and replaced with ability to open local files, files from other apps and links from Share Sheet. Yattee is listed among apps as capable of opening video/audio files and web links. • Tapping on channel image opens channel page • When video cannot be loaded, alert will display button to retry loading • Fixed wobbliness of rotation lock on iOS 16 (Hopefully) • Option "Honor system orientation lock" is again available • Added Ukrainian, Romanian and Czech translations, updated other languages • Locations settings moved before Advanced, manifest URL moved to Locations • Fixed issue where switching backend while asset is loading would cause app to play two simultaneous streams • Fixed reported crashes • Other minor improvements

macOS: • Hide mouse cursor with in full screen on Mac

tvOS: • Settings are accesible via Home page button and now are again displayed full screen • Added "Close video" button to AVPlayer controls • Fixed issue with "Remove from Favorites" button appearing randomly where it should not • Fixed issue where after finishing playing video in AVPlayer screen would stay blank with no way to close
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Yattee-v1.4.1-beta.1-iOS.ipa(13.04 MB)
Yattee-v1.4.1-beta.1-macOS.zip(37.16 MB)
Yattee-v1.4.1-beta.1-tvOS.ipa(13.57 MB)
v1.4-beta.1(Oct 28, 2022)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/acf962b4a0b23febc5bd25bb283663e50453354d...0433d2e8751f4af39f91c1beb2eb5605eb911623
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Yattee-v1.4-beta.1-macOS.zip(36.98 MB)
v1.4-alpha.7(Aug 17, 2022)
Added Quality Profiles

Quality Profile defines stream selection preference for loaded videos. You can create multiple quality profiles and use automatic switching depending on the device conditions: charging status and network status (Wi-Fi or Cellular). Options are available depending on device type and capabilities. You can switch profiles manually from video settings overlay. Each profile can have defined name (optional), player backend, maximum resolution and preferred stream formats.

New layout for video settings overlay

Videos in related and queue now have all context menu options available

Keyboard will automatically hide on scroll in Search (requires iOS 16)

Locations management

Locations list by country is provided

On first run app will ask for closest country

Random public instance of the country is selected on startup

Locations settings

Change preferred country of instances

In case of problems you can switch to other instance in the region

Private instances can be added as a Custom Location

There's no more need to specify app type while adding instance, it's automatically detected

Comments support for Invidious

Subtitles support (for Invidious and MPV)

Select language from the settings overlay in player controls

Switching to other videos preserves language selection

Overlay for settings in player controls can be closed with tap outside of it

Player adapts size to the video aspect ratio

Added portrait full screen mode

Swipe to close gesture closes full screen

Added lock orientation button

Added playback modes:

Queue in order

Queue shuffled

Loop one video

Autoplay (1)

Title bar in full screen controls opens overlay with details/queue

Added player setting for system controls buttons:

Changed default system controls buttons to restart current/play next

Improved rotation detection

Improved rotation animations

Improved loading list of available live streams

Improved PiP close animation

Improved AVPlayer performance

Added live stream indicator/button to seek to live

Added "Proxy videos" option to Invidious instances settings

Added more details to server error messages

Added setting "Close player when closing video"

Added setting "Rotate to portrait when exiting fullscreen"

Added error messages when cannot login to the account

Keyboard will hide when opening search results

Improved search performance

Improved fullscreen rotation animation on iPhone models with notch

Improved performance of player controls overlays

Using button "switch back to player" in PiP no longer pauses the video

PiP opens automatically when app enters background when AVPlayer is used

Removed channel name on thumbnails in channel view

Video title can break into two lines

Added Advanced settings

MPV cache settings - adjust if you encounter buffering issues

Manifest URL - can create your own instances manifest file and set its URL here Public manifest for reference is available here: https://r.yattee.stream/manifest.json

Minor controls bar improvements

Removed comments source setting

Added chat links to settings

Fixed handling end of file with MPV

Fixed settings layout

Fixed applying safe area insets

Fixed issue where player could get stuck in partially-visible state

Fixed issue where videos on channel/playlist page would move when toggling player visibility

Fixed some reported crashes

Fixed restarting playing watched videos

Fixed player source instance setting

Fixed parsing some video links

Fixed removing video title from system controls when video is closed

Fixed applying safe area insets when rotation is locked

Fixed issue where "Add to Playlist" window cannot be closed when there is no playlists

(experimental) Safari extension to redirect to Yattee

Updated MPV to version 0.34.1

Other minor changes and improvements

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/65621176f4a965af1aecad89f69e19c4e54f34d7...v1.4-alpha.7
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.7-iOS.ipa(18.47 MB)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.7-macOS.zip(36.55 MB)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.7-tvOS.ipa(16.63 MB)
v1.3.5(Aug 17, 2022)
What's Changed

Fixed reported crash

Fixed issue where "Add to Playlist" window cannot be closed when there is no playlists

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.3.4...v1.3.5
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Yattee-1.3.5-iOS.ipa(2.40 MB)
Yattee-1.3.5-macOS.zip(5.93 MB)
Yattee-1.3.5-tvOS.ipa(2.90 MB)
v1.4-alpha.6(Jun 27, 2022)
What's Changed

Added support for video chapters (1)

Improved player controls UI

Timeline shows chapters and SponsorBlock segment categories in tooltip while seeking

Timeline shows by default video length without SponsorBlock segments, changes to full length while seeking

Rate, stream quality and MPV performance status moved to new overlay, added rate increase/decrease buttons

Loading streams, opening stream and buffering status is displayed

Button to return to beginning of the SponsorBlock segment appears after skipping

Video title and channel name is displayed in full screen

Improved video details UI

Simplified and more condensed layout

Changed buttons

Added swipe for switching between sections

Added new current video menu (channel avatar), visible when browsing and playing

Added Chapters tab

Added support for opening links to channels, playlists and searches (2)

Added deep links for favorites, subscriptions, popular, trending and search (3)

Added setting for thumbnails quality

Added setting for closing video after playing last item in the queue

Added "Share" action to video context menu

Added "Add to last used playlist" action to video context menu

Added "Add to playlist" actions to related videos

Adding video to playlist is performed in background

Improved performance of loading video streams (4)

Improved performance of player queue (5)

Improved performance of playing playlists

Player now defaults to MP4 formats for hardware decoding with MPV

System overlays (home indicator, multi-task indicator on iPad) are autohidden (6)

Music Mode (7)

Improved MPV player performance

Added swipe player action in full screen

Improved player swipe animation

Fixed crash that occurred on background playback

Fixed issue where app would not load audio track with MPV

Fixed and improved skipping outros

Fixed issue with incorrect video date displayed in the user playlists

Fixed issue where some of first frames of the video were dropped

Fixed issue where player would not stop playing when entering background

Fixed orientation lock when closing video from fullscreen

Player will close when swipe threshold is reached

Added player setting to show playback performance statistics

Added support for connecting to HTTP instances

Fixed issue with views count text being cut off

Fixed crash on sharing video link

Notes

Chapters are available with Piped (with thumbnails). In case chapters are unavailable the app will try to find them in the video description

Example links:

yattee://channel/UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw

yattee://c/DudePerfect

yattee://playlist?list=PLDIoUOhQQPlXr63I_vwF9GD8sAKh77dWU

yattee://search?search_query=Relaxing+music

Available links:

yattee://favorites

yattee://subscriptions

yattee://popular

yattee://trending

yattee://search

Now only streams for current instance are loaded

Video details are loaded when adding to the queue for faster switching to next item, and after restarting app it is loaded on demand

Due to baffling complexity of implementation, on versions earlier than iOS 16 the overlays are always autohidden. On iOS 16 it will only hide when in full screen playback

Activate from video context menu or from player controls to load just the audio track to save bandwidth and loading time. Video track will be restored if you leave Music Mode.

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.6-iOS.ipa(11.55 MB)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.6-macOS.zip(36.09 MB)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.6-tvOS.ipa(10.49 MB)
v1.4-alpha.5(May 29, 2022)
What's changed

Added slide gesture for hiding player (#44) (iOS)

Added buttons in player controls (#106)

Close video

Next video in the queue

Restart current video

Added option to video context menu to start playing in PiP (#137) (iOS)

Added button to browser controls to close current video

Changed tab navigation to use overlays instead of sheets for channels and playlists (iOS)

Fixed orientation changes handling (#121) (iOS)

Fixed action of closing video (#94)

Removed most of defaults Favorites list (#101)

Minor controls UI improvements (controls will get soon re-implemented for better UI and performance)

Other minor fixes and improvements

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/b306819af9c788b13eab86b88c417dcfdeb710b4...v1.4-alpha.5
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.5-iOS.ipa(11.54 MB)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.5-macOS.zip(37.22 MB)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.5-tvOS.ipa(10.54 MB)
v1.3.4(May 22, 2022)
What's Changed

Added support for user playlists with Piped accounts

Channel subscriber count is retrieved without additional query with Piped

Other minor fixes and changes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.3.3...v1.3.4
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Yattee-1.3.4-iOS.ipa(2.39 MB)
Yattee-1.3.4-macOS.zip(5.89 MB)
Yattee-1.3.4-tvOS.ipa(2.89 MB)
v1.4-alpha.4(May 22, 2022)
What's Changed

Added Picture in Picture for iOS

Added playback rate option

Added 4K, 60fps resolution (#118)

Added 8K resolutions

Added resolutions for 50fps and 48fps (#120)

Format VP9/WEBM is now preferred for MPV (#128)

Fixed displaying watch history of videos in the queue

Fixed behavior of restoring last played video

Fixed disabled state of play/pause buttons

Improved player drawing performance on some devices

Includes changes from stable 1.3.3 release:

User playlists support for Piped accounts

Channel subscriber count is retrieved without additional query with Piped

Other minor changes and fixes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.4-alpha.3...v1.4-alpha.4
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.4-iOS.ipa(11.54 MB)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.4-macOS.zip(37.20 MB)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.4-tvOS.ipa(10.53 MB)
v1.4-alpha.3(Apr 3, 2022)
You are encouraged to leave your feedback in the release discussion. Ideas on player controls are welcome but please do not report bugs/improvements requests focusing on the current controls which will be rebuilt in the near future to meet needs of each supported platform.

What's Changed

Fix drawing player on some devices

Improve entering full screen on macOS

Improve handling queue

Screen should no longer dim (iOS)/start screen saver (tvOS) while playing

Other minor improvements

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/622dd5ba8abb64d0872412b3eaf7e4167b826cc9...v1.4-alpha.3
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.3-iOS.ipa(11.52 MB)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.3-macOS.zip(37.17 MB)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.3-tvOS.ipa(10.51 MB)
v1.3.3(Mar 27, 2022)
What's Changed

Keyboard closes automatically when Search Suggestion is tapped (#72)

Added placeholders when videos are loading

Open channel with tap on its name in the thumbnail (#87)

Fixed displaying video date in Subscriptions

Fixed "Remove All" for Search History (#80)

Fixed crash on reorganizing Favorites (#81)

Fixed "Subscribe/Unsubscribe" buttons behavior (#84)

Fixed menu commands

Other minor changes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.3.2...v1.3.3
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Yattee-1.3.3-iOS.ipa(2.38 MB)
Yattee-1.3.3-macOS.zip(5.88 MB)
Yattee-1.3.3-tvOS.ipa(2.88 MB)
v1.4-alpha.2(Mar 27, 2022)
You are encouraged to leave your feedback in the release discussion. Ideas on player controls are welcome but please do not report bugs/improvements requests focusing on the current controls which will be rebuilt in the near future to meet needs of each supported platform.

What's Changed

tvOS build is now available

Added new quality settings

Fix drawing player on some devices

Fix closing fullscreen on closing player

Includes fixes from 1.3.3 release

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.4-alpha.1...v1.4-alpha.2
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.2-iOS.ipa(11.52 MB)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.2-macOS.zip(37.17 MB)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.2-tvOS.ipa(10.51 MB)
v1.4-alpha.1(Mar 20, 2022)
What's new

New player built with MPV

4K playback support

Much better at keeping playing high quality adaptive streams

New player controls

Player gestures: tap twice on the left/center/right of player to go back 10s/play-pause/go forward 10s

Dislikes counter from Return YouTube Dislike - disabled by default, to enable in Player settings

Reorganized browser toolbars

Player always stays in same bottom-most place

Better translucency effect

Fixed parsing video date in subscriptions

Other minor changes

What's missing (comparing to v1.3)

Picture-in-Picture and AirPlay

Subtitles

Playback rate change

tvOS build is not yet available - coming in the near future

Known issues

Player queue may not work properly

Video may close prematurely

Multiple seeks may cause crash

Some FPS may be dropped when presenting controls

Scrolling may stuck on iOS 14 during playback

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/main...v1.4-alpha.1
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.1-iOS.ipa(11.51 MB)
Yattee-1.4-alpha.1-macOS.zip(37.15 MB)
v1.3.2(Feb 26, 2022)
What's Changed

Fixed issue which caused playlist not to open when history saving is disabled (#57 by @Rbot427)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.3.1...v1.3.2
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Yattee-1.3.2-iOS.ipa(2.30 MB)
Yattee-1.3.2-macOS.zip(5.82 MB)
Yattee-1.3.2-tvOS.ipa(2.87 MB)
v1.3.1(Jan 24, 2022)
What's Changed

Fixed selecting stream quality (#54)

Fixed showing Account/Settings buttons when only Search section is visible (#56)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.3...v1.3.1
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Yattee-1.3.1-iOS.ipa(2.30 MB)
Yattee-1.3.1-macOS.zip(5.82 MB)
Yattee-1.3.1-tvOS.ipa(2.87 MB)
v1.3(Jan 20, 2022)
What's Changed

Improved watch history

Display progress of watching while browsing videos lists

Mark watched videos with badge or decreased opacity

Select badge color or make it dependent on system color scheme

Customisable percentage of when to mark video as watched

Customisable default action for watching (resume or restart), options in videos context menus

Reset watching status when playing video again

Added setting to show or hide list of played videos in player view

Added infinite scroll to Search

Added infinite scroll to Comments

Added "Play/Shuffle All" buttons to channel/user playlists

iOS, tvOS: Redesigned Settings

macOS: Player is now a separate window

macOS: Added "Toggle Sidebar" button

macOS: Added "Check for updates" button in Updates settings

Added setting: Pause when player is closed

Added settings for Picture in Picture:

Close PiP when starting playing other video

Close PiP when player is opened

Close PiP and open player when application enters foreground (iOS/tvOS)

Added setting to display channel subscriptions count

Added setting to show/hide username in accounts switcher button

Improved search suggestions layout by separating buttons to start search for query and append text

Added channel thumbnail in player. Tap and hold/right click to open

Added setting to disable thumbnails rounding

Decreased size of thumbnails badges

iOS, macOS: Added refresh action to Subscriptions/Popular/Trending (pull to refresh/CMD+R)

Added Help section in Settings

Added help link for adding Invidious account

Added details of SponsorBlock categories in Settings

Added context menu to close current video from player bar

Backported blur effect to thumbnail badges/player controls for iOS 14/mac OS Big Sur

Improved performance during loading video details

iOS (experimental): Added setting to lock portrait mode when browsing videos

iOS (experimental): Added settings to handle entering fullscreen on rotation:

Honor system rotation lock

Lock landscape when entering fullscreen via rotation

iOS (experimental): Added option for rotating and locking landscape when entering full screen with button

Other fixes and improvements

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.2...v1.3
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Yattee-1.3-iOS.ipa(2.30 MB)
Yattee-1.3-macOS.zip(5.81 MB)
Yattee-1.3-tvOS.ipa(2.87 MB)
v1.3-rc(Jan 9, 2022)
What's Changed

Fixed search suggestion layout when query is corrected by server

Fixed restoring player queue when restarting the app

iOS: Fixed opening channel from video details

Other minor improvements

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.3-beta.6...v1.3-rc
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Yattee-1.3-rc-iOS.ipa(2.30 MB)
Yattee-1.3-rc-macOS.zip(5.81 MB)
Yattee-1.3-rc-tvOS.ipa(2.87 MB)
v1.3-beta.6(Jan 7, 2022)
What's changed

Fixed Refresh button which was displaying in videos listing background

Added details of SponsorBlock categories

Decreased size of thumbnails badges

iOS: mark rotation features as experimental

iOS (experimental): Added option for rotating and locking landscape when entering full screen with button

Other minor improvements

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.3-beta.5...v1.3-beta.6
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Yattee-1.3-beta.6-iOS.ipa(2.29 MB)
Yattee-1.3-beta.6-macOS.zip(5.81 MB)
Yattee-1.3-beta.6-tvOS.ipa(2.87 MB)
v1.3-beta.5(Jan 6, 2022)
What's Changed

Added infinite scroll to Search

Added infinite scroll to Comments

Redesigned Settings on iOS and tvOS

Added Help section in settings

Added help link for adding Invidious account

Added refresh action to Subscriptions/Popular/Trending (pull to refresh/CMD+R)

Added setting to disable thumbnails rounding

Improved windows handling on macOS, fixed focusing

Improved search suggestion buttons area

Improved dismissing player animation in tvOS

Backported blur effect to thumbnail badges/player controls for iOS 14/mac OS Big Sur

Other minor improvements

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.3-beta.4...v1.3-beta.5
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Yattee-1.3-beta.5-iOS.ipa(2.29 MB)
Yattee-1.3-beta.5-macOS.zip(5.80 MB)
Yattee-1.3-beta.5-tvOS.ipa(2.86 MB)
v1.3-beta.4(Jan 2, 2022)
What's Changed

iOS: Added option to lock portrait mode when browsing videos

iOS: Added options to handle entering fullscreen on rotation:

Honor system rotation lock (#38)

Lock landscape when entering fullscreen via rotation

Added "Play/Shuffle All" buttons to channel/user playlists (#39)

Added option to show/hide history of played videos in player view

Added option to show/hide username in accounts switcher button

Added options for watched videos:

Use both badge/decreased opacity for marking videos

Select badge color or make it dependent on system color scheme

Reset watching status when playing video again

Improved performance when loading video details (#46)

Improved search suggestions layout by separating buttons to start search for query and append text

Fixed issue with displaying video time in system playback controls

macOS: Added "Toggle Sidebar" button

macOS: "Check for updates" button in Updates settings

Other minor changes

Known Issues

macOS: player window might not get focused correctly when Settings are opened

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.3-beta.3...v1.3-beta.4
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Yattee-1.3-beta.4-iOS.ipa(2.07 MB)
Yattee-1.3-beta.4-macOS.zip(5.39 MB)
Yattee-1.3-beta.4-tvOS.ipa(2.82 MB)
v1.3-beta.3(Dec 26, 2021)
What's Changed

Improved history of watched videos (#42)

Display progress of watching while browsing videos lists

Mark watched videos with badge or decreased opacity

Customisable percentage of when to consider video as watched

Customisable default action for watching (resume or restart), options in context menus

Fixed subscriptions not loading properly (#41)

Fixed recognising live videos when using Piped instances

Fixed video details alignment

Improved thumbnails loading

Fixed crash when switching from live video to regular video

Other minor changes

Known Issues

macOS: player window might not get focused correctly when Settings are opened

System player controls stop working properly after using Picture in Picture

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.3-beta.2...v1.3-beta.3
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Yattee-1.3-beta.3-iOS.ipa(2.04 MB)
Yattee-1.3-beta.3-macOS.zip(5.36 MB)
Yattee-1.3-beta.3-tvOS.ipa(2.77 MB)
v1.3-beta.2(Dec 19, 2021)
What's Changed

macOS: player is now a separate window

New setting: pause when player is closed (fix #40)

New settings for Picture in Picture

Close PiP when starting playing other video

Close PiP when player is opened

Close PiP and open player when application enters foreground (iOS/tvOS) (fix #37)

New player placeholder when playing in PiP, context menu with exit option

Likes/dislikes count is shown only when it's available

Improved loading of list of available streams

Added context menu to close current video from player bar

iOS: improved player queue rows buttons labels (added icons)

iOS: change effect of organizing favorites (fix #43)

tvOS: fix visibility of Subscriptions tab navigation item

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.3-beta.1...v1.3-beta.2
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Yattee-1.3-beta.2-iOS.ipa(2.01 MB)
Yattee-1.3-beta.2-macOS.zip(5.32 MB)
Yattee-1.3-beta.2-tvOS.ipa(2.78 MB)
v1.3-beta.1(Dec 17, 2021)
What's Changed

Added channel thumbnail in player. Tap and hold/right click to open

Video will start playing after intro instead of starting and then seeking to end of intro (if SponsorBlock is enabled)

Show errors when handling user playlists (with Invidious)

Add option to display channel subscriptions count

Minor changes to comments layout

Other minor fixes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.2...v1.3-beta.1
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Yattee-1.3-beta.1-iOS.ipa(2.00 MB)
Yattee-1.3-beta.1-macOS.zip(5.29 MB)
Yattee-1.3-beta.1-tvOS.ipa(2.77 MB)
v1.2(Dec 10, 2021)
What's Changed

Support for iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur

Comments for videos (for Piped)

Select instance to load comments from or disable (Services settings)

Replies and pagination

Open author channel with tap and hold/right click

Display comments in separate tab or below video description (Services settings)

New, custom UI for Search

Tapping suggestions updates text field

Tap top suggestion to search

Improved layout on iOS

Settings

Enable/disable storing recent videos and channels

Show/hide sections (Favorites, Popular, Trending...)

Minor improvements and fixes

Set full screen views background based on color scheme on tvOS

Tap and hold related videos to queue

Tap and hold video title in player to close current video

macOS only

Updates framework and setting for receiving beta updates

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.1...v1.2
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Yattee-1.2-iOS.ipa(1.98 MB)
Yattee-1.2-macOS.zip(5.25 MB)
Yattee-1.2-tvOS.ipa(2.76 MB)
v1.2-rc(Dec 7, 2021)
What's Changed

Add updates framework for macOS (Sparkle)

Remove redundant query for replies when collapsed and expanded

Other minor changes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.2-beta.6...v1.2-rc
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Yattee-1.2-rc-iOS.ipa(1.98 MB)
Yattee-1.2-rc-macOS.zip(5.25 MB)
Yattee-1.2-rc-tvOS.ipa(2.76 MB)
v1.2-beta.6(Dec 6, 2021)
What's Changed

Add preference to display comments in separate tab or below video description

Improve search suggestions

Fix disabling comments on tvOS

Fix search field overflowing on macOS

Fix crash on dismissing channel playlist on iOS

Fix reloading favorites view

Smoother progressing to next video

Other minor changes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.2-beta.5...v1.2-beta.6
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Yattee-1.2-beta.6-iOS.ipa(1.98 MB)
Yattee-1.2-beta.6-macOS.zip(4.07 MB)
Yattee-1.2-beta.6-tvOS.ipa(2.76 MB)
v1.2-beta.5(Dec 5, 2021)
What's Changed

Comments improvements

Show text when there is no comments or comments are disabled

Show progress indicator for loading comments/replies

Improve layout of icons and text spacing

Fix option to disable comments

Fix login with Invidious accounts

Set full screen views background based on color scheme on tvOS (fixes #30)

Fix crash when video thumbnail cannot be loaded (fixes #28)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.2-beta.4...v1.2-beta.5
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Yattee-1.2-beta.5-iOS.ipa(1.98 MB)
Yattee-1.2-beta.5-macOS.zip(4.06 MB)
Yattee-1.2-beta.5-tvOS.ipa(2.76 MB)
v1.2-beta.4(Dec 4, 2021)
What's Changed

Comments for Piped (all platforms) (fixes #4)

Select instance to load comments from (default is Kavin's instance) or disable in Services settings

Replies support

Pagination support

Open author channel with tap and hold/right click

Fixed Favorites screen scrolling on macOS Big Sur

Improved search layout on iOS for better space use

Other minor UI fixes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.2-beta.3...v1.2-beta.4
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Yattee-1.2-beta.4-iOS.ipa(1.97 MB)
Yattee-1.2-beta.4-macOS.zip(4.04 MB)
Yattee-1.2-beta.4-tvOS.ipa(2.75 MB)
v1.2-beta.3(Dec 1, 2021)
What's Changed

Fix crash on opening player in iOS 14 (fixes #20) in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/21

Add settings for selecting visible sections (fixes #16) in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/22

Add setting for saving recents (fixes #14) in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/23

Fix search on tvOS in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/24

Add context menu to related items for queuing in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/25

Display build number next to version in https://github.com/yattee/yattee/pull/26

Known Issues

Favorites screen scrolling is broken on macOS Big Sur

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.2-beta.2...v1.2-beta.3
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Yattee-1.2-beta.3-iOS.ipa(1.92 MB)
Yattee-1.2-beta.3-macOS.zip(3.96 MB)
Yattee-1.2-beta.3-tvOS.ipa(2.72 MB)
v1.2-beta.2(Nov 30, 2021)
What's Changed

Fix video player and other views displayed as .sheet() on iOS 14

Fix tab navigation crash

Known Issues

Favorites screen scrolling is broken on macOS Big Sur

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/compare/v1.2-beta...v1.2-beta.2
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Yattee-1.2-beta.2-iOS.ipa(1.91 MB)
Yattee-1.2-beta.2-macOS.zip(3.93 MB)
Yattee-1.2-beta.2-tvOS.ipa(2.72 MB)