Juno For YouTube For Apple Vision Pro 2024 REVIEW — MacSources

Juno provides the best possible way to watch YouTube content.

One of the apps I use on a daily basis is YouTube. I always check-in with creators I follow and look up various tricks and tips about technology. Because of my daily use of YouTube, I was hesitant to dive into content on the Apple Vision Pro since YouTube does not have a visionOS native app yet. Fortunately, Juno for YouTube exists.

Juno for YouTube was developed by Christian Selig as a way for Vision Pro users to consume YouTube content in an app rather than through Safari. He came up with the idea when trying to find a work around for the YouTube app problem. He reused some code from another app he developer (Apollo) and built a YouTub client for visionOS utilizing YouTube’s APIs. Below is a snippet from Selig’s blog about the development of Juno.

How does it work technically? YouTube has a few different APIs. They have a “Data API” for fetching information (thumbnail, duration, etc.) for a video, that requires an API key, auditing, and you can only call so many times a day. This API doesn’t actually get you the video…