The most powerful and customizable media player for macOS
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Built on mpv with a native SwiftUI interface. GPU-accelerated playback, real-time GLSL shaders, full streaming via yt-dlp, 200+ settings, and zero tracking. Free forever, with an optional Pro upgrade.
- Plays everything. All major video and audio formats with hardware-accelerated decoding via VideoToolbox.
- Real-time GLSL shaders. Apply and customize shaders during playback with a built-in shader gallery. Anime4K, adaptive sharpening, CAS.
- Stream anything. Full yt-dlp integration for YouTube, Twitch, SoundCloud, and hundreds of sites. SponsorBlock, browser cookies, quality switcher.
- HDR & EDR. Extended dynamic range output for HDR content; accurate tone mapping presets for SDR.
- 200+ settings. Obsessively customizable playback, video, audio, subtitle, and interface options. Searchable across every tab.
- Best-in-class subtitles. Auto-load, online search via OpenSubtitles and SubDL, one-tap styling presets, SDH support, dual tracks, full ASS/SSA styling.
- Night mode. Dynamic-range compression that evens out loud and quiet passages so late-night dialogue stays clear without sudden blasts.
- Up Next queue. Line up what plays next without reordering your playlist, with pinch-to-zoom and pan, plus on-disk stream caching for instant backward seeks.
- Deep macOS integration. A menu bar mini player, Shortcuts and App Intents, Spotlight library indexing, and a Focus filter, alongside Now Playing and media-key support.
- Music mode. Dedicated UI with album art display, audio visualizer, gapless playback, ReplayGain.
- Audiophile equalizer. A dedicated Equalizer tab with a 10-band parametric EQ, adjustable per-band width, and 18 saveable presets. Device Equalization brings AutoEQ corrections for 6,000+ headphones and earphones, matched to your output device automatically, plus crossfeed, loudness compensation, channel balance, mono, and per-device EQ memory.
- Synced lyrics. Karaoke-style, time-synced lyrics in music mode. Fetched automatically from LRClib or loaded from local .lrc files, with the active line highlighted and click-to-jump on any line.
- Playlists & library. Drag-and-drop playlists with thumbnails, media library with folder scanning, session persistence.
- Picture-in-picture. Compact floating mini player that stays on top.
- Seekbar thumbnails. Hover over the seekbar to preview frames at any moment.
- Album art & video previews in Finder. Every song and video gets real album art (audio) or a representative video frame (video) as its Finder icon. Works for MKV, WebM, Opus, OGG, FLAC, DSD, and 20+ formats macOS normally shows as a generic music note or filmstrip. Quick Look preview works too.
- Chapter navigation. Full support for video chapters with quick navigation. MKV chapters, YouTube chapters, SponsorBlock segments.
- Smart shortcuts. Customizable keyboard shortcuts plus trackpad gestures. Pinch to zoom, swipe to seek, two-finger tap to pause.
- mpv under the hood. Built on libmpv for battle-tested, high-performance media playback.
- Truly native macOS. SwiftUI + AppKit, not an Electron wrapper. Quick Look extensions, Dock menus, system integration that feels Apple-built.
- 36 languages. Fully localized with searchable settings in every language. RTL support for Arabic and Hebrew.
- Built for accessibility. Full VoiceOver labeling of the playback controls, with support for Reduce Motion, Increase Contrast, and Reduce Transparency. Optional trackpad haptics.
🎨 A built-in GLSL shader gallery. Browse, stack, and toggle shaders in real time. Anime4K upscaling, adaptive sharpening, CAS, custom presets. The whole library is one click away during playback.
🖼️ Universal Finder thumbnails. Every song and video shows real album art or a representative video frame as its Finder icon, including the formats macOS normally renders as a generic music note or filmstrip (MKV, WebM, Opus, OGG, FLAC, DSD, and 20+ more). Quick Look previews work too. A background helper keeps thumbnails fresh even when Corvus Player is fully closed.
🔍 Settings you can actually find. Searchable across every tab, with deep-linking from quick-action prompts. 200+ options, but you'll never have to hunt for them.
🌐 36 languages, fully translated. Including the searchable settings and onboarding. RTL layout flip for Arabic and Hebrew. The language picker is one click away.
⚡ GPU-accelerated playback on Apple Silicon. Built on mpv with VideoToolbox decoding and Metal rendering. 4K HDR plays smoothly; the CVDisplayLink-driven render loop keeps frame pacing rock-solid even during fullscreen transitions.
🎵 A real music mode, not an afterthought. Album art display, audio visualizer, gapless playback, ReplayGain, compact floating mini player. Works as your media library and your music player.
🎬 Streaming without the browser. Paste any URL: YouTube, Twitch, SoundCloud, hundreds of sites via yt-dlp. SponsorBlock, browser-cookie auth, quality switcher, subtitle fetching all built in.
🛡️ Built for privacy. Zero accounts, zero telemetry, zero analytics. License validation happens locally against a Keychain-stored key. The only network calls Corvus Player makes are the ones you ask for.
mpv · SwiftUI · AppKit · Metal · VideoToolbox · yt-dlp · Sparkle · OpenSubtitles
Free forever. No accounts, no analytics, no telemetry, no tracking. Corvus Player makes zero network requests unless you're streaming. License validation happens locally against a Keychain-stored key; no phone-home.
Corvus Player is proprietary software. It bundles several open-source libraries, including FFmpeg and mpv, used under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 (LGPL-2.1) with no GPL-licensed components. These libraries are linked dynamically and ship as separate, replaceable files inside the app.
The complete corresponding source for the LGPL libraries (FFmpeg n8.1.2 and mpv v0.41.0, built from their unmodified upstream releases with the configuration noted in the license file) is available on request at corvusdevs@outlook.com. Full per-library license details, including the LGPL-2.1 text, are in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt.
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