Pear Desktop is a free and open-source client app that plays YouTube Music on Windows, macOS and Linux. It also adds useful plugins such as ad-free playback, SponsorBlock, song downloads, synced lyrics and many plugins you can turn on or off.

Pear Desktop is built by the pear-devs team. This is a group of open-source volunteers.

YTM Desktop is another open-source YT Music client for Windows, macOS and Linux distros. It is developed by Adlerluiz.

A plugin is a small feature you can enable in Pear Desktop. Each plugin does one job, such as blocking ads. Open the Plugins menu and enable the ones you want.

Open the Plugins menu, find the option called "Do Not Track" and turn it on. Also, enable the SponsorBlock plugin to skip sponsored segments in songs and videos.

Pear Desktop runs on almost every modern Linux distribution, including Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pop OS, Fedora, openSUSE and Arch Linux. It ships as AppImage, deb, rpm, snap, flatpak and a plain tarball, so you can pick the format your system likes.

Yes. Pear Desktop is completely free and open-source. There is no price, no trial and no account needed to install it. You can also look at the full source code on GitHub at any time.

Yes. The code is open for anyone to read, and the app is built in public on GitHub. To stay safe, always download it from this website or the official GitHub releases page, and avoid copies from unknown sources.

No. Pear Desktop works with a normal free YouTube Music account. If you already have Premium, you can still sign in and enjoy your usual benefits.

Yes. There is a downloader plugin you can turn on in the Plugins menu. Once it is on, you can save songs for offline listening in common audio formats.

Yes. Turn on the synced lyrics plugin, and Pear Desktop displays the song's lyrics.

Pear Desktop can update itself on most systems, so you get new versions automatically. You can also visit peardesktop.com at any time to manually grab the latest build.

Pick the installer if you want a normal setup that adds Pear Desktop to your Start menu and keeps it updated. Pick the portable file if you want to run the app straight from it without installing anything, for example, from a USB drive.

Yes. There is a build made for Apple Silicon Macs with M1, M2, M3 and newer chips, plus a separate build for older Intel Macs. The macOS Download page helps you choose the right one.

No. Pear Desktop is made for computers running Windows, macOS and Linux. On phones and tablets, you can use ReVanced or Morphe.

You can open an issue on the GitHub page. Share what happened and the steps you took, and the team or the community can look into it.