Developer Christian Selig of “Apollo for Reddit” fame has created what Google would not – a devoted YouTube app for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
Known as Juno for YouTube, the app lets Imaginative and prescient Professional homeowners browse the YouTube platform in a cleanly refined visionOS interface with out having to resort to the lackluster various, which is visiting the YouTube web site in Safari.
The video participant contains native controls for interacting with the video, together with resizing to create a house theater expertise in your front room, repositioning, dimming your room across the video, and extra.
As well as, there’s assist for facet ratio detection, and buttons to extend or lower playback velocity, toggle captions, and share movies. As you’d count on from a third-party app, no YouTube account is required to make use of Juno, and it will not auto-skip adverts, however YouTube Premium subscribers will take pleasure in the advantages that accompany the tier by means of the app.
Selig cautions that early adopters of the app could encounter just a few bugs, since he has solely been capable of develop and work together with it within the Imaginative and prescient Professional simulator. However that is unlikely to concern customers who’re accustomed to the developer’s repute and engagement with individuals who use his apps. Plus, he is getting a Imaginative and prescient Professional headset at the moment.
And here is a fast overview video exhibiting it in motion. I am trying ahead to making an attempt it on an precise machine tomorrow, I actually really feel like Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional goes to make such a tremendous YouTube expertise 🥳 pic.twitter.com/GY39eDF7bC
— Christian Selig (@ChristianSelig) February 2, 2024
YouTube stated earlier this month that it’s not growing a YouTube Imaginative and prescient Professional app, nor will it permit the YouTube iPad app to run on the machine. Netflix and Spotify have stated the identical factor. Netflix and Spotify will as an alternative be accessible by means of Safari, much like YouTube.
Juno for YouTube is priced at $4.99 and the app is already out there on the App Retailer for nascent Imaginative and prescient Professional homeowners to take a look at.
