Native & fast
A real Mac app written in SwiftUI, with mpv's copy-back hardware decoding doing the heavy lifting.
Open source · Apache 2.0
The video player your Mac deserves.
macmpv wraps a fully hardware-accelerated mpv engine in a clean, native SwiftUI interface. It plays everything, streams torrents, and gets out of the way.
macOS 26 or newer · Apple Silicon · All releases
Everything a player should do
And nothing it shouldn't.
Plays everything
Any format FFmpeg supports — MP4, MKV, WebM, FLAC and dozens more — plus HTTP, HTTPS, RTMP and RTSP streams.
Torrent streaming
Drop in a magnet link or .torrent file and watch while it downloads — streamed to the player over localhost.
Built-in queue
Drag and drop, reorder, repeat one or all, and jump between episodes with next/previous.
Subtitles, tuned
Size, outline, color, background and sync delay — all adjustable. They even move out of the way of the controls on their own.
Pick up where you left off
Per-file resume positions and saved intro/outro markers, so binge sessions remember everything.
Native shortcuts
Full-screen playback, screenshots, speed control and scrubbing — all with the keyboard commands you already know.
Everything ships inside
mpv, the FFmpeg libraries and ffprobe are bundled in the app — no Homebrew, no extra installs.
Get macmpv
Free, open source, and yours to keep.
1
Download the dmg
Grab the latest release — about 29 MB.
2
Drag to Applications
Open the dmg and drop macmpv into your Applications folder.
3
Open it
The first launch asks macOS for permission — see the note below. Then just play.
The + Torrents build plays magnet links with zero setup — WebTorrent
is bundled. The standard build is smaller; add torrents later with
npm install -g webtorrent-cli if you ever need them.
Questions
Do I need mpv or FFmpeg installed?
No. The app bundles libmpv, the FFmpeg libraries and ffprobe inside the .app — nothing else to install.
What about torrent playback?
Magnet links and .torrent files stream on the fly. The standard download needs WebTorrent CLI (npm install -g webtorrent-cli); the macmpv + Torrents build above bundles it, so torrents work out of the box.
Does it run on Intel Macs?
Not from the download — the dmg is built for Apple Silicon. Intel users can build from source on the GitHub repo.
Is it really free?
Yes — open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Star the repo if you like it.