The YouTube Music
player for macOS menubar.

Faster and Easier Access to YouTube Music from the Menubar.

macOS 12+ 9 languages Free download

Petit is an unofficial third-party app. Not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google.

Petit Player app screenshot

Everything stays in reach.

  • Menubar Fast

    Access the petit player directly from the menu bar anytime, anywhere, whatever you are doing.

  • Menubar Media

    Enjoy YouTube Music anywhere via our Picture in Picture (PIP).

  • Menubar Media

    Change the playback status directly from the menu bar without having to open the player.

  • Shortcut

    OS X native media key support. Turn the player on/off and change playback status via hot keys in anywhere.

  • Supported Sites

    Currently, only YouTube Music is supported.

  • Languages

    Supports 9 languages: English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, German, Portuguese, French, and Turkish.

Recent release notes

v0.1.4 2026-05-05 ↓ dmg
  • Hardened media-key handling so headphone connect/disconnect events cannot start playback.
  • Media keys now only pause playback; play and toggle signals are ignored.
  • Added a short cooldown to suppress repeated device-triggered pause events.
v0.1.3 2026-04-30 ↓ dmg
  • Fixed Google account login in the built-in browser by injecting Chrome browser signals.
  • Added a Home button to the navigation bar (← → ⌂ ↺).
  • Fixed a colored background flash that appeared during page transitions.
  • YouTube Music Premium upsell pages are now automatically redirected to the home page.
v0.1.2 2026-04-06 ↓ dmg
  • Fixed an issue where the settings menu appeared behind the app window when clicking the gear icon.
v0.1.1 2026-04-05 ↓ dmg
  • Keyboard shortcuts can now be customized. Go to Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts → Customize Shortcuts...
v0.1.0 2026-04-04 ↓ dmg
  • Completely rewritten from Electron to native Swift/AppKit. Lighter and faster.
  • PiP improved with larger controls, higher quality artwork, and artist name display.
  • Media keys (play/pause, next, previous) are now supported.
  • Shuffle/Repeat icons in menubar now show active/inactive state.
  • Wide Mode added. Expand the player window beyond default width from settings.
  • Keyboard shortcuts changed to Ctrl+Option combos to avoid conflicts with other apps.
  • Added "Import Login from Chrome" in right-click menu for when Google sign-in is blocked in the embedded browser.
  • 9 languages supported: English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, German, Portuguese, French, and Turkish.
  • Track change notifications removed.
v0.0.12 2020-05-17
  • Fix auto play issue.
v0.0.11 2020-04-23
  • Enable pip window resizing.
  • Show pip control buttons while mouse hovers on pip window.
  • Change app icon.
v0.0.10 2020-03-31
  • Stop support changing play time in "now playing" (also in sidebar).
v0.0.9 2020-03-30
  • Relaunch re-supported
  • Minor bug fix
v0.0.8 2020-03-29
  • Auto Updater minor fix
v0.0.7 2020-03-28
  • Support Auto Update
v0.0.6 2020-03-27
  • Support changing play time in "now playing" (also in sidebar).
  • Support notification when music changes.
  • Support repeat status changing.
  • Fix a bug occurred by dragging.
v0.0.5 2020-03-20
  • Offline mode supported.
  • Bug fix.
v0.0.4 2020-03-15
  • Picture in Picture (PIP) is supported.
  • Keyboard shortcuts are supported (Toggle window, Toggle Play & Stop, Play previous song, Play next song)
  • Added direct buttons to play / pause in the menu bar, play previous song, play next song.
  • English is supported.
  • Bug fixes and UI improvements.
v0.0.3 2020-02-13
  • "Launch at login" is supported.
v0.0.2 2020-02-10
  • Support Touchbar.
v0.0.1 2020-02-07
  • Back / Forward / Refresh buttons are added at the top of the screen.
  • Normal shutdown function is added by right clicking on the icon in the menu bar.

Credits

Contributors

Joonyoung Yi [LinkedIn] [Github]
Kangmin Ahn [LinkedIn] [Github]

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Special Thanks To

This product was inspired by the unofficial Bugs Music Player created by a high school student. (Related article)

Backers

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License

This product is free. You can use it freely regardless of personal or business purposes.

Petit YouTube Music Player is a third-party application for YouTube and not a website operated by YouTube.

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