moosikWhich YouTube Music desktop player fits how you listen?
Compare Moosik, Cellar, Nixie and YTMDesktop+ for local history, cross-device listening, queue editing and Discord.
If you already pay for YouTube Music, the choice is often about what happens around the song: finding it again, keeping a queue across restarts, or listening with a friend. We make Moosik. For this November 2026 comparison, we checked what each project documents publicly. Choose the job you care about first.
Find a track by when you heard it
For a listener who uses one computer and remembers an artist but not a title, Moosik has a concrete workflow: open Recently played, select Last 7 days, search the artist and choose Play next. It records local listens from the moment you start using it. See the search and resulting queue in Moosik.
For someone who starts an album on one computer and finishes on another, Cellar documents synced history and cross-device resume. It also supports Last.fm and Libre.fm for listeners who already keep their plays there. Moosik’s detailed local ledger stays with its installation.
Build a queue you want to keep
Moosik lets you select several upcoming tracks, move them together, and save the current mix as a private playlist. Cellar also documents multi-selection and queue reordering. If your main concern is returning to exactly where you left off, Nixie documents restoration of the queue, track, position and shuffle state. It also offers selectable loudness targets and a build for Intel Macs. Moosik’s Mac installer requires Apple Silicon.
Listen with a friend on Discord
Moosik 0.1.26 lets a friend open a song independently or follow the host’s pauses, skips and seeks. YTMDesktop+ also documents a Listen Along button on Discord and publishes builds for Windows, macOS and Linux. For Moosik’s version, see the setup and try the interactive demo.
A quick way to decide
Take one track you remember playing yesterday and five songs you want to play next. On the same computer, try finding the first track, moving the five upcoming songs together, and reopening the player. Use songs heard in that client for the history test. This makes the difference between a searchable history, a recently played list and a restored queue apparent in a few minutes.