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Install yattee with Homebrew Cask

Alternative and privacy-friendly YouTube frontend. Version 1.5.1 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.

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macOS

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brew install --cask yattee

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overview

Package summary

Alternative and privacy-friendly YouTube frontend

Commands and aliases

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history

Project history and usage

Yattee is an open-source, privacy-oriented video player for macOS and other Apple platforms. It can consume video through alternative and self-hosted backends instead of requiring the official YouTube client.

Project history

Yattee began as an AGPL-licensed, privacy-oriented video player for Apple platforms. Its first-generation client emphasized alternative YouTube frontends, custom playback, Picture in Picture, background audio, and SponsorBlock.

The Yattee 2 effort broadened the design around a self-hosted yt-dlp-powered Yattee Server and added more media sources, synchronization, downloads, and native interfaces across Apple devices.

Adoption history

Yattee is distributed across Apple's platforms, including macOS, iOS, and tvOS. Its official installation instructions cover GitHub releases, TestFlight, AltStore, source builds, and the Homebrew cask for macOS.

The project has grown around privacy-oriented alternatives to direct YouTube use, supporting Invidious and Piped and later adding the self-hosted Yattee Server backend.

How it is used

Users configure one or more content sources, then browse, search, subscribe, queue, and play videos. The player supports high-resolution playback, Picture in Picture, background audio, SponsorBlock, playlists, history, and configurable controls.

Newer builds also support local files, SMB and WebDAV sources, offline downloads, and iCloud synchronization.

Why package nerds care

Yattee combines a native SwiftUI interface with open, replaceable video backends. That makes it notable to users who want a package-managed macOS video client without being locked to the official YouTube application or website.

Its Homebrew cask complements the project's direct, notarized GitHub releases and built-in update mechanism.

Timeline

  • First generation: Yattee established a native Apple-platform client around Invidious and Piped.
  • 2026: The Yattee 2 rewrite entered public testing with Yattee Server integration.
  • 2026: Yattee 2 public betas expanded to Apple TV and macOS.

Related projects

  • Yattee Server
  • Invidious
  • Piped
  • SponsorBlock
  • DeArrow
  • yt-dlp

Sources

  • Official documentation: https://docs.yattee.stream/
  • Official installation wiki: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/wiki/Installation-Instructions
  • Official releases: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/releases
  • Official repository: https://github.com/yattee/yattee

security posture

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Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

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freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-11-04
manager version1.5.1
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/yattee/yattee

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  • infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/yattee/yatteenone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keycask:yattee
Version1.5.1
Package managerHomebrew Cask
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/cask/yattee
Homepagehttps://github.com/yattee/yattee
Repositoryhttps://github.com/yattee/yattee
Source archivehttps://github.com/yattee/yattee/releases/download/v1.5.1/Yattee-1.5.1-macOS.zip
SHA-25646def4264ad5f8d5dfdf38ff0f503e38e1a62e2c510059960b0c292ec3dc1e62
Bottlenot recorded
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew cask API
Taphomebrew/cask
Full Tokenyattee
Names
  • Yattee
Artifacts
App
1
Target
1
Zap
1
Deprecatedno
Disabledno

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