What is Yattee

Yattee is a privacy-focused video streaming client for iOS, macOS, and tvOS. It lets you watch video content without tracking, ads, or account requirements.

Key Features

Player

• MPV engine -- PiP, AirPlay audio, background audio, Now Playing, auto best-stream selection
• Storyboard thumbnails, chapter markers, and sponsored segment markers
• Subtitles with multi-language support and appearance customization
• Quality selector with resolution, codec, bitrate, and size info
• Pinch to zoom and pan with snap options
• Lock orientation and lock controls
• Details panel -- Info, Comments, Queue and more pages with configurable presets and section ordering
• Corner layout on iPad and Mac
• iPhone Duo -- tabletop and book posture layouts, exterior display support

Media Sources

• Yattee Server -- self-hosted backend powered by yt-dlp, supporting YouTube and 1000+ other sites
• Invidious -- YouTube frontend
• Piped -- YouTube frontend
• PeerTube -- decentralized video platform
• Local folders, Samba shares, and WebDAV servers
• Network auto-discovery for Samba and WebDAV
• Optional auth and self-signed certificate support
• Multiple accounts per Invidious or Piped instance, with account playlists and Invidious watch history
• Direct media links -- play them without Yattee Server

Customization

• Control presets -- with export/import and iCloud sync
• 20+ configurable buttons -- across 3 layout sections with glass and plain styles
• Volume and brightness sliders - configurable in player controls
• Mini player -- configurable tap action (PiP or expand), reorderable controls
• Player pill -- configurable buttons and comments pill mode
• Gesture config -- 3-zone taps with 9 actions, horizontal seek, panscan pinch
• Swipe actions -- 9 configurable actions on video lists
• Customizable tab bar and sidebar -- reorder, hide, set startup tab
• Home screen -- reorderable sections with card and list layouts
• Themes and icons -- 3 app icons, 9 accent colors

Library and Sync

• Bookmarks -- with tags, notes, search, and multi-source support
• Playlists -- with YouTube/Invidious/Piped import and multi-source support, and editing of Invidious and Piped account playlists
• Continue Watching -- with cross-device sync
• Downloads -- background, batch, queue management, resumable
• Watch history -- with configurable retention
• Per-channel notifications -- for new uploads
• iCloud sync -- across iOS, macOS and tvOS

Community Enhancements

• SponsorBlock -- auto-skip with progress bar visualization
• DeArrow -- community-sourced titles and thumbnails
• Return YouTube Dislike -- restore dislike counts

Multi-Device

• Remote control -- play, pause, seek, send videos, view playback status
• Handoff -- video, channel, playlist, search with playback position

Privacy

• No tracking, ads, or accounts required
• Incognito mode -- disables history recording
• Configurable retention -- watch history and search history limits

Open Links

• Batch URL input -- up to 200 URLs
• Parallel extraction via yt-dlp with Yattee Server
• Clipboard URL detection
• YouTube playlists and @handle channels open straight into their details
• Share via privacy frontends -- share links to your Invidious or Piped instance instead of YouTube

Automation

• Shortcuts and Siri -- actions and voice commands for playback and player controls
• URL scheme with x-callback-url support; Yattee 1.x links work too

Advanced

• Custom MPV options management
• In-app log viewer with filtering and export

Supported Platforms

Platform	Minimum Version
iOS	18+
macOS	15+
tvOS	18+

Next Steps

Ready to start? Head over to the Getting Started guide to install Yattee and add your first video source.