Lifetime Mac
Video, audio & media

Yate

Audio tag editor built for libraries with tens of thousands of tracks

Price: $20 once

PerpetualUpdates included, forever

Price read on 2manyrobots.com, the page Buy direct opens.

The catch

One licence covers two Macs at a time, so a third means deactivating one

The full picture

Two concurrent activations per licence, which is fine for a laptop and a desktop and awkward for anything more. The interface is dense, and the real power sits in Actions and scripting, which costs you an afternoon before it starts saving you days. It is macOS only. It edits tags and files, so it is neither a player nor a library manager, and it will not fix anything your player caches separately.

Seats
2 MacsTwo concurrent activations; a third Mac means deactivating one first.
Developer account
None needed

What it looks like

Images belong to their developers.

What you’re buying

Yate is for the person whose music lives on a drive rather than in a streaming account, and who has noticed that the same artist is filed under three spellings, half the classical recordings credit the conductor as the artist, and about four hundred albums have no cover. It reads and writes tags across the formats that actually turn up in a ripped or downloaded library, checks releases against MusicBrainz, Discogs and last.fm, and can identify a mystery file by its acoustic fingerprint when the tags are simply absent.

The part that justifies the $20 is Actions: small scripted routines you assemble once — normalise this field, strip that junk, pull artwork at a sane size — and then run across thousands of files unattended. The licence does not expire, updates are included with no version wall, and one purchase activates two Macs at a time, which is the only real limit on it.

If your library is a few hundred tracks bought from one store, the Music app's own Get Info will do, and Yate's window will look like a spreadsheet you did not ask for. It is also not a player or a library manager: it fixes the files, and leaves playing them to something else.

What owners report

Points that recur across the discussions below. A report of what users say, not our verdict: we don’t review software.

Praised

  • Owners repeatedly credit the combination of Discogs and MusicBrainz lookups for matching obscure releases that Picard alone misses
  • The developer's responsiveness and willingness to help is raised unprompted in more than one thread

Details

The price in full

$20.00 USD for a perpetual licence. Licences do not expire and all updates are free. A single licence covers two concurrent activations. The full app is downloadable with no feature limits for a 14-day trial.

The Yate page at 2manyrobots.com
The developer’s own page. 2manyrobots.com, captured 22 Sep 2026
Free trial
Yes
Works offline
Partly
Apple Silicon
Native
On Setapp
No
Minimum macOS
not stated
Developer
2manyrobots

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