YouTube Desktop is a simple Desktop application for watching YouTube, built using ElectronJS.

• 🎵 Background Playback (Minimize to system tray)
• 🎮 Discord Rich Presence integration
• 🚫 Built-in Adblocker
• ⚙️ Control for Hardware Acceleration

Download the latest release for Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

For Windows, a standard Executable is provided, as well as a Squirrel package. DEB and AppImage packages are available for Linux distributions.

To run, just launch the executable via the Desktop Shortcut, or the Executable directly.

To build locally, clone the repository and install the dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/BartuAbiHD/youtube-desktop.git
cd youtube-desktop
npm install

To run the application locally.

npm run test

To build the application installer.

npm run make

• electron
• electron-forge
• electron-store
• publisher-github

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