Yanks

Your audio software inventory – local first.

Yanks scans the audio plugins installed on your computer (VST3, VST2, Audio Units, CLAP) and your Max for Live devices, groups them into products across formats, and keeps track of vendors, versions and licenses, with your own favorites, categories and notes. Everything stays on your machine; the public catalog at yanks.yetano.app is optional.

macOS · Apple Silicon

M1 and newer Download (16 MB) SHA-256 43bf555b6ca36e331b1911549215205c4cc5939ebefcf8600389ab89f5140570

macOS · Intel

Not tested regularly Download (18 MB) SHA-256 75ff7931b955215513763cb36e713683fe436c45ecce2c6070081401ad6b9d47

Windows · 64-bit

Windows 11 (Windows 10 should work) Download (21 MB) SHA-256 434e79fdfb780a8823f7d847e8991238c125925ace32b7191b27bec5b11f42bd

The installer downloads and installs the newest Yanks (now 0.17.0) for your user account – no administrator rights needed – and checks that the package is signed by us. Yanks then offers updates itself; you can switch the automatic check off in the installer or in About. Checksums: SHA256SUMS.

Opening it the first time

The installers are not yet signed with an Apple or Microsoft certificate, so your system warns before the first start. What Yanks installs is verified all the same: the installer accepts only packages signed with our key.

macOS

Open the downloaded zip; it unpacks to Yanks Installer.
Double-click it. macOS says it cannot verify the developer – click Done.
Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down to “Yanks Installer was blocked” and click Open Anyway, then confirm. (On macOS 14 and earlier: right-click the installer, choose Open, then Open again.)
Yanks is installed to ~/Applications/Yanks.app.

Windows

Run Yanks-Setup-windows-amd64.exe.
If SmartScreen shows “Windows protected your PC”, click More info, then Run anyway.
Yanks appears in the Start menu; uninstall it from Settings › Apps.

Checking a download

Compare the file's SHA-256 with the one above:

# macOS
shasum -a 256 Yanks-Installer-macos-arm64.zip
# Windows (PowerShell)
Get-FileHash .\Yanks-Setup-windows-amd64.exe

With yet

If you use yet, the Yetano package manager, you can install Yanks without the installer – then it never checks for updates on its own:

yet install --trust yetano.app/yanks/yanks:latest

Privacy

Your inventory, notes, licenses and settings stay on your computer.
The update check asks our registry which Yanks versions exist – nothing about your computer or your plugins.
The public catalog is off until you switch it on; it downloads the catalog and matches it on your machine.
Nothing else is sent without you choosing it.