Download Clicker for YouTube 1.20 (Mac) Free

YouTube can be a real pain at times. Endless ads, lack of proper integration with the OS, pop-out players that work about half the time, and music tabs that you can never find or control properly.

Clicker for YouTube was designed to offer a better alternative to your browser, allowing you to watch YouTube from an app that’s actually built in a native programming language and supports the features your OS and Mac are capable of.

No more YouTube tabs in your browser

As the new M1 Macs have shown, efficiency is the name of the game for Apple, and using browser-based apps is distinctly inefficient. A dedicated app written in Swift, like Clicker for YouTube, is always going to run more smoothly and use fewer resources.

On top of that, you won’t have to click through dozens of browser tabs to find that one clip you want to pause. This app can be opened and accessed from your Dock or menu bar, and you can keep your browser for things browsers are actually better at, like browsing.

Built-in ad-blocker and mini-player

Using YouTube without an ad-blocker is a dismal experience, and Google seems to be looking for yet more ways to monetize content via advertisements. Thankfully, Clicker for YouTube comes with its own ad-blocker, so you won’t have to worry about any of that.

While most browsers now include pop-out players that allow you to watch videos while doing other things, they are very much hit-or-miss. They often don’t work properly, and positioning them is a nuisance. Clicker’s mini-player seems to work flawlessly; it sticks to the corners of the screen automatically, and it features the beautiful rounded-corner design popularized by Big Sur.

Other useful features

macOS 11 users will be able to control playback in Clicker via the Now Playing menu bar icon, and MacBook Pro owners will have a range of controls in their device’s Touch Bar.

If you like to keep ambient noise videos running in the background when going to sleep, you’ll love the sleep timer feature. It can play videos for a certain amount of time, after which your Mac will go into sleep mode, preserving battery life .

YouTube has many faults, and Clicker for YouTube deals with quite a lot of them. It is a great way to enjoy video content on your Mac, a clear improvement over the in-browser experience, and it is fully compatible with Apple’s new M1 Macs .