rewyt Rewind & play
YouTube live streams
Rewyt is a desktop app for rewatching live streams beyond YouTube's limits
Available for Linux, macOS, and Windows
With Rewyt, you can rewind and play back past moments of ongoing YouTube live streams, far beyond the YouTube player limits. Clip and save your favorite moments. Share timestamps HH:mm:ss with others.
rewyt
- 1. (n.) from Old English "rewyt," meaning navigation, voyage
- 2. (v.) to rewatch YouTube live streams, navigating through past moments
Rewind a YouTube live stream and play it back. Watch specific moments you missed or quickly browse the stream.
Clip and save moments
Highlight an interval and save it as a video file with ypb. Great for keeping the interesting moments.
Or capture frames for a time-lapse:
Share timestamps
Copy the timestamp of a moment you found, or paste one to jump right to it. Perfect for sharing with others.
More about Rewyt
Rewyt is built for personal use like watching streams and keeping favorite moments, not for redistributing content elsewhere. If you do share a clip or screenshot, please credit the creator and their channel. Also, don't forget to support the people you watch by subscribing, liking, and commenting directly on YouTube. Read the usage disclaimer as well.
Rewyt runs on top of ypb, a playback proxy that gives access to past moments in YouTube live streams. When you open a stream, ypb fetches its info with yt-dlp, including the media segment URLs. When you rewind to a moment, ypb generates a dynamic MPEG-DASH manifest that starts from that moment. The player then streams the video from YouTube through ypb. More in the full overview.
Get Rewyt
Latest release: v2026.10.1 (1 October 2026)
Not sure which to choose? Compare the installation options.
Desktop app
Download pre-built binaries. Requires yt-dlp, FFmpeg, etc.