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Flow-Desktop

A modern, feature-rich YouTube and YouTube Music client with local recommendation for Desktop built with Rust and Tauri.

  • Completely free
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Features described in its GitHub repository: subtitles, playlists, lyrics display and equaliser.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Native video playback with quality and codec selection, SABR/DASH/HLS support, chapters, subtitles, playback speed, queues, mini-player, and Picture-in-Picture.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “YouTube Music home, search, artists, albums, playlists, queue management, synchronized lyrics, repeat, shuffle, and equalizer controls.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “YouTube Music home, search, artists, albums, playlists, queue management, synchronized lyrics, repeat, shuffle, and equalizer controls.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “YouTube Music home, search, artists, albums, playlists, queue management, synchronized lyrics, repeat, shuffle, and equalizer controls.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Flow-Desktop is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub Flow-Tube/Flow-Desktop (GPL-3.0-only)

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