Desktop app

Prerequisites

Rewyt relies on yt-dlp:

yt-dlp: For video info extraction and downloading. Nightly builds are recommended. If you use binaries, update with: yt-dlp --update-to nightly.

Additional dependencies

The following dependencies are optional, but strongly recommended in practice:

External JavaScript runtime: Required for full YouTube support
Proof-of-Origin (PO) token provider plugin: Required to avoid HTTP 403 errors

Install from binaries

Pre-built binaries for different platforms are available on the GitHub latest release page.

Linux	Windows	macOS
x64	x64	universal

Download the binary for your platform and unzip it to your working directory.