A tab keeps growing. Meiro stays put.

A YouTube Music tab opens around 300 MB, then swells the longer you listen, up to 800. Meiro stays near 100 all day, because it draws its own window instead of carrying Chromium around.

MeiroTypical use

100MB

A browser tabGrows with use

300–800MB

One dot is 20 MB. Meiro can drop to about 99 MB. The fainter dots are what a tab picks up as you keep listening.

What Meiro leaves out

Chromium
The window is drawn natively. There is no browser engine to carry around.
Ads
Meiro plays the audio stream. With no page, there is no ad slot to fill.
Telemetry
No analytics of its own, and no account needed to listen.
Video
The song plays. The picture does not.

A player, not a web page

Tired of Electron? Me too. That is why Meiro is not a glorified web page, but an actual desktop app.

Recommendations, new releases and what you played last, without a tab to find.

Songs, albums, artists and playlists, with filters. Recent searches are kept.

The queue, the lyrics and related songs on one screen. A small player follows you while you browse.

The line being sung is the line that is lit. Switch to plain text to read ahead.

Liked songs, your playlists and the artists you follow. Sort a playlist or search inside it.

How much you listened to, day by day. The history stays on your computer and you can delete it.

Home with recommendations and recent plays

The cover picks the colour

Meiro takes a colour from the album art and builds the whole window from it. Pick a song in the queue, or press play, and watch this page follow.

Made to stay open all day

Ten bands, ten presets

Pick a preset and the bands move. Volume levelling keeps every song at a similar loudness.

Every action has a key

Rebind any of them in Settings.

Play or pauseSpace
Previous track⇧⌘J
Next track⇧⌘L
Volume up⇧⌘I
Volume down⇧⌘O
Mute⇧⌘M
Shuffle⇧⌘S
Repeat⇧⌘R

Tray mini player

Close the window and the music keeps playing. On macOS and Windows the tray opens a small player.

Media keys

Your keyboard keys, the Now Playing widget on a Mac and the media controls on Linux.

Last.fm

Scrobbles what you play, while you want it to. Pause it any time.

Discord

Shows the track, the cover and a time bar on your profile, if you turn it on.

Recent songs, saved

Songs you played lately load faster next time. You choose how many to keep.

Updates itself

Checks for a new version once a day. You can turn it off.

Download Meiro

Free and open source. CI builds every release from the source you can read on GitHub.

macOS A universal .dmg for Apple Silicon and Intel. Not notarized yet. Download Windows A portable .zip or the setup .exe. The Windows build is untested. Download Linux AppImage, .deb, .rpm or .tar.gz, for amd64 and arm64. The .deb and .rpm install the tray library for you. Download

Meiro is beta and unofficial. It uses YouTube's private interfaces, so a change on YouTube's side can break browsing, playback or sign-in until an update ships. See the known issues. Minimal builds are on the same releases page.

YouTube Music,without the bloat.