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YTAudioBar
Now on MacOS: your free, ad-free YouTube music & podcast app
Stream and download any YouTube audio — music, podcasts, lectures — ad-free, no video, no RAM drain. A lightweight desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Maker here. I built YTAudioBar because I wanted to listen to podcasts, lectures, and music from YouTube without keeping a browser tab open just for audio — that tab load its full video decoder, ads, and RAM/battery cost for something I wasn't even watching.
It started as a Windows/Linux tray app. Since the first Product Hunt launch, the biggest changes are: full macOS support (native menu bar app, not a port), YouTube playlist search and import (not just single tracks), and a big performance pass — replaced polling with backend-pushed events, unified the whole audio pipeline on ffmpeg, and added 170+ tests across the frontend and backend.
It's built with Tauri + Rust, MIT licensed, completely free with no ads or limits. Happy to answer anything about the architecture or what's next on the roadmap.
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About YTAudioBar on Product Hunt
“Now on MacOS: your free, ad-free YouTube music & podcast app”
YTAudioBar was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #58 on the daily leaderboard. Stream and download any YouTube audio — music, podcasts, lectures — ad-free, no video, no RAM drain. A lightweight desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
YTAudioBar was featured in Music (53.5k followers), GitHub (41.4k followers), Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) and Audio (2.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 43.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted YTAudioBar?
YTAudioBar was hunted by ilyass anida. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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