Chanbox

An inbox for your YouTube subscriptions

Chanbox gathers the new Videos from only the Channels you chose into one Inbox on your Mac. Watch each one or Archive it, until you're all caught up.

Get Chanbox for Mac

Free · Release 2026.18 · 84 MB · Apple silicon · macOS 26 or later

Chanbox isn't made by or affiliated with YouTube or Google.

The Inbox

Every new Video from your Channels waits in the Inbox, newest first, until you watch it or Archive it. Shown here with all of them, watched ones too.

Every Video in Chanbox as Tiles: Categories across the top with how many Videos wait in the Inbox for each, Channels down the side, and Video cards, one stamped Watched and two showing how far they were watched.
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    Your Categories

    File Channels under Categories you make, and see how many Videos wait in each.

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    The count that falls

    The Inbox counts what's new. Each Video you watch or Archive takes one off.

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    Watched or Archived

    Mark a Video watched, or Archive the ones you'll skip. Either way it leaves the Inbox.

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    Picks up again

    A Video you stopped partway shows how far you got, and plays on from there.

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    Stamped when watched

    Watched Videos are stamped with the day you watched them.

Watching

Open a Video and it plays in Chanbox, with what you'll do next right under it.

A Video open in Chanbox, ready to play, with buttons under it to mark it watched, open it on YouTube, Archive it or go on to the next unwatched one.
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    Plays in the app

    Videos play right in Chanbox. Links to YouTube open in your browser.

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    Mark watched

    A Video is marked watched when it ends, or whenever you say so.

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    On to the next

    Go straight to the next unwatched Video in the Inbox.

Only yours

Nothing gets in that you didn't choose, and what you've watched stays on your Mac.

Bring your Channels
Paste a @handle, a channel link or a video link, or import subscriptions.csv from Google Takeout.
No algorithm
No recommendations and no Shorts feed. A Channel's Shorts wait on their own tab, never among its Videos.
New Videos when you ask
Refresh checks your Channels for new Videos and Shorts. Nothing runs behind your back.
No account
Subscribe, Refresh and watch without signing in to Google or anything else.
On your Mac
Your Channels and what you've watched stay in Chanbox on your Mac, and nowhere else.

All caught up

That's everything new. Get Chanbox and start clearing your own Inbox.

Get Chanbox for Mac

Free · Release 2026.18 · 84 MB · Apple silicon · macOS 26 or later