Never miss a go-live again.
Subscribe to YouTube channels from your menu bar. The second they go live, your Mac tells you — watch on the desktop or jump straight into the stream.
The feature list
01
Go-live alerts
Native macOS notification the second a channel starts streaming.
HumbleWATCHES checks your channels quietly in the background and fires a real macOS notification the moment one goes live — no browser tab, no refresh ritual. Click the alert and you're in the stream. Channels and whole groups can be muted, so the ambient stuff never pings you.
02
Desktop PiP
Float any stream over your work. Even over full-screen apps.
Pop any live stream into a small floating window that stays above everything — your editor, your browser, full-screen apps included. Widescreen or vertical 9:16, open as many as you like (they stack neatly from your chosen corner), and pin one in place so a stray drag can't move it.
03
Scroll to volume
Wheel over the player. 0 to 100. A proper OSD.
Hover a floating player and roll the scroll wheel — volume moves in crisp steps with a big monospace percentage and a veil that darkens as you turn it down. No hunting for a slider inside a YouTube embed. It feels like hardware.
04
Jump to stream
One click into the full YouTube player when you want chat and chaos.
Sometimes the floating window isn't enough. One click from the panel or the notification takes you straight to the full YouTube player — chat, chapters, and all. HumbleWATCHES gets you there; YouTube does the rest.
05
Groups & favorites
Vibe Coders, Ambient, Webcams, Idle — organize channels your way.
Sort channels into groups you name yourself, collapse the ones you don't need, and star the channels that matter — live always outranks offline, stars settle the rest. Each group has its own alert setting — so Vibe Coders pings you and Ambient Streams never does.
06
Countdowns
Scheduled streams tick down in the panel so you never wonder when.
Scheduled streams and premieres show a live countdown badge right on the card — "IN 2H 29M" — so the panel answers "when's the show?" at a glance. No calendar maths, no timezone guessing.
07
Tweet it
Someone's live. Tell everyone in one click.
Every card and alert has a share button that opens a pre-filled post — channel, title, link — from a template you can edit with tokens like {name} and {url}. One click to the compose window, zero clicks spent typing.
08
Featherweight & private
~5 MB, native, no dock icon. No account either.
A native app that lives in the menu bar and nowhere else — no dock icon, no Electron, no sign-up, no API key required. It polls harder only when a stream is imminent and naps the rest of the time, so your battery won't notice it. Your channel list stays on your Mac.
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