Desktop App for YouTube Videos

Smart App for YouTube turns the site you already use into a calm, native Mac experience — the full YouTube you know, wrapped in a real Mac app and surrounded by tools the browser never gave you: a private library, focus filters, a true transcript reader, beautiful exports, and Apple Intelligence running entirely on your Mac.

No account. No tracking. Everything the app remembers stays on your Mac.

A REAL MAC APP AROUND THE VIDEO
- Native sidebar — Home, Watch, Discover, Library and Tools — with audio that keeps playing while you browse
- Smart watch bar with live title and thumbnail, speed chip, chapters, description links and one-click actions
- ⌘K command palette, Discover with search, official hubs and one-click topics
- Illustrated onboarding, a full user manual and a ⌘/ shortcut cheat sheet

PLAYER SUPERPOWERS
- Speed from 0.75× to 3× with per-channel memory and an optional default
- Loop, chapters and play-through-queue autoplay
- Float on top with adjustable opacity and click-through
- Picture in Picture, sleep timer with audio fade, pause on screen lock
- Media keys, Now Playing and a mindful focus timer

YOU CHOOSE WHAT YOU SEE
- Opt-in distraction filters — Shorts, comments, related videos and more (all off by default; playback is never touched)
- Zen presets and video brightness, contrast, saturation and grayscale controls
- Light, dark or system appearance, accent themes and custom CSS

A LIBRARY THAT'S ACTUALLY YOURS
- History with exact positions and Continue Watching
- Session restore and a reorderable Watch Later with play-next
- Color-tagged Collections with Play All
- Timestamped notes (⌘⌥N)
- Frames gallery — capture with ⌘⌥S, multi-select, batch export, drag anywhere
- Quote cards from any transcript line

TRANSCRIPTS, DONE RIGHT
- Click-to-seek reading and find-in-transcript
- On-device translation into 8 languages
- A cached transcript library and clean, paginated PDF export

APPLE INTELLIGENCE — PRIVATE, ON YOUR MAC
- Video Analysis that works even without captions (topics + keyword chart)
- Summaries, AI chapters, ask-this-video, study notes, quizzes, mentioned resources and term explanations
- Ask Your Library: one question answered across every saved transcript, with clickable citations
- A weekly AI recap — nothing ever leaves your Mac

KNOW YOUR HABITS
- Watch Stats with charts and a 15-week heatmap
- PDF reports and a daily watch Balance ring

PART OF YOUR MAC
- Siri & Shortcuts, Spotlight, menu-bar controller, Dock menu
- macOS Focus filter, read-aloud and frame OCR

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, no analytics, no trackers. App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected. Terms, Privacy Policy, support email and refund help are built into the app.

Requirements: macOS 26 or later. AI features require Apple Intelligence on Apple silicon.

Privacy Policy: https://gavcris.app/#privacy
Terms of Agreement: https://gavcris.app/#terms

Smart App for YouTube is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by YouTube or Google LLC. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC.