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Pear Desktop

Electron-based desktop app offering YouTube Music playback with plugin support for ad blocking, audio downloads, lyrics, Discord presence, audio compressor, age bypass, scrobbling, keyboard shortcuts, video quality changes, SponsorBlock, custom theming, and notifications.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2.  Dark Mode
  3.  YouTube Downloader
  4.  No registration required
  5.  MP3 Downloader
  6.  Picture in Picture
  7.  Portable
  8. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
  9.  Built-in Ad-blocker

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  • Developed by

    GR flagPear Devs
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
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  • Alternatives

    36 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Audio & MusicVideo & Movies

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  •  1,720 Forks
  •  636 Open Issues
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Ad-free, very lightweight, multiple languages, with the option to sync with your YT Music account

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What is Pear Desktop?

Electron wrapper around YouTube Music featuring:

  • Native look & feel, aims at keeping the original interface
  • Framework for custom plugins: change YouTube Music to your needs (style, content, features), enable/disable plugins in one click

Available plugins:

  • Ad Blocker: Block all ads and tracking out of the box
  • Audio Compressor: Apply compression to audio (lowers the volume of the loudest parts of the signal and raises the volume of the softest parts)
  • Blur Nav Bar: makes navigation bar transparent and blurry
  • Bypass age restrictions: bypass YouTube's age verification
  • Disable Autoplay: Makes every song start in "paused" mode
  • Discord: Show your friends what you listen to with Rich Presence
  • Downloader: downloads MP3 directly from the interface (youtube-dl)
  • Exponential Volume: Makes the volume slider exponential so it's easier to select lower volumes.
  • In-App Menu: gives bars a fancy, dark look
  • Last.fm: Scrobbles support
  • Lyrics Genius: Adds lyrics support for most songs
  • Navigation: Next/Back navigation arrows directly integrated in the interface, like in your favorite browser
  • No Google Login: Remove Google login buttons and links from the interface
  • Notifications: Display a notification when a song starts playing (interactive notifications are available on Windows)
  • Picture in picture: allows switching the app to picture-in-picture mode
  • Playback Speed: Listen fast, listen slow! Adds a slider that controls song speed
  • Precise Volume: Control the volume precisely using mousewheel/hotkeys, with a custom hud and customizable volume steps
  • Quality Changer: Allows changing the video quality with a button on the video overlay
  • Shortcuts: Allows setting global hotkeys for playback (play/pause/next/previous) + disable media osd by overriding media keys + enable Ctrl/CMD + F to search + enable linux mpris support for mediakeys + custom hotkeys for advanced users
  • Skip-Silences - Automatically skip silenced sections
  • SponsorBlock: Automatically Skips non-music parts like intro/outro or parts of music videos where the song isn't playing
  • Taskbar Media Control: Control playback from your Windows taskbar
  • Touchbar: Custom TouchBar layout for macOS
  • Tuna-OBS: Integration with OBS's plugin Tuna
  • Video Toggle: Adds a button to switch between Video/Song mode. can also optionally remove the whole video tab