Features
- YouTube Search — Search videos via the Innertube client with automatic deduplication
- DASH Video Playback — Adaptive streaming via dash.js with full seeking support
- Custom Video Controls — Play/pause, ±10s seek, volume slider, 8 playback speeds (0.25×–2×), Picture-in-Picture, fullscreen, with auto-hide
- Media Session API — OS-level media controls from the system tray and lock screen
- SponsorBlock — Privacy-preserving hash-prefix lookup; auto-skips sponsors, self-promo, intros, outros, and more with colored progress bar markers
- Channel Subscriptions — Subscribe/unsubscribe with a reactive local database
- Subscription Feed — Home page aggregates the latest videos from all subscribed channels, sorted by date, with persistent caching
- Encrypted Local Database — RxDB with CryptoJS encryption on sensitive fields (channel IDs, names, thumbnails)
- Cloud Sync — Appwrite-powered authentication with bidirectional subscription sync and avatar upload
- Invidious Companion Sidecar — Bundled companion binary auto-launches on startup with health checking
- Stream Proxy — Custom
stream://URI scheme in Rust for proxying video streams with full Range header support - Everforest Theme — A beautiful custom color scheme built on daisyUI
- 3D Hover Effects — Video cards with CSS 3D transforms
Tech Stack
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Desktop Framework | Tauri 2 (Rust) |
| Frontend | React 19 + TypeScript 5.8 |
| Build Tool | Vite 7 |
| Routing | React Router 7 |
| UI | daisyUI 5 + Tailwind CSS 4 |
| Video Player | dash.js 5 |
| YouTube API | youtubei.js 17 |
| Local Database | RxDB 17 + IndexedDB + CryptoJS |
| Cloud Backend | Appwrite |
| Companion Server | Deno + Hono |