Alternatives to Open Video Downloader
A cross-platform desktop interface for youtube-dl that downloads videos and playlists from many websites. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Open Video Downloader
A cross-platform desktop interface for youtube-dl that downloads videos and playlists from many websites.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Open Video Downloader.
Parabolic
A desktop interface for yt-dlp with batch and concurrent downloads, subtitles, metadata and a choice of output formats.
Parabolic is an MIT-licensed desktop interface for yt-dlp with concurrent downloads, subtitles, metadata and audio format choices on all desktop platforms.
Stacher
A desktop GUI for yt-dlp that downloads online video and audio and organizes a library.
Stacher is a freemium yt-dlp front end that can manage yt-dlp and ffmpeg and includes a searchable library, with Linux builds for Debian-based systems.
youtube-dl-gui
A cross-platform graphical front end for yt-dlp and youtube-dl with a download queue.
youtube-dl-gui is an open-source front end for yt-dlp and youtube-dl with a download queue on all three desktops, though parts of its interface are dated.
ytDownloader
Open-source desktop app for downloading video and audio from hundreds of websites.
ytDownloader is an open-source Electron desktop app for hundreds of sites, with Flatpak and Snap builds and many interface translations.
yt-dlp
A command line downloader that saves audio and video from thousands of sites, with precise control over formats.
yt-dlp is the command line downloader itself, with thousands of supported sites and fine format control, but no graphical interface.
ClipGrab
A free, open-source desktop app for downloading online videos and converting them to MP4 or MP3.
ClipGrab is a GPL-3.0 desktop app that downloads and converts to MP4 or MP3 in one step, though its macOS version is still a beta.
4K Video Downloader Plus
A desktop app for saving videos, playlists and channels from YouTube and other video sites.
4K Video Downloader Plus is a closed-source freemium app that saves playlists and channels up to 8K, with some features behind a Premium license.
MediaHuman YouTube Downloader
A desktop app that downloads videos, playlists and whole channels from YouTube and other sites.
MediaHuman YouTube Downloader is a free but proprietary app that downloads whole playlists and channels and extracts MP3 audio on macOS, Windows and Ubuntu.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Open Video Downloader as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
cobalt
Paste a link and save the media, with no ads or trackers.
Open Video Downloader is a lightweight Tauri desktop interface for youtube-dl that handles playlists, with unstated license terms and site support tied to the underlying downloader.
Downie
A macOS app that downloads videos from YouTube, Vimeo and over a thousand other websites.
Open Video Downloader is a free Tauri app that wraps youtube-dl for playlists and single videos on macOS, Windows and Linux, with license terms not stated.
Media Downloader
Download supported online media through a desktop interface.
Open Video Downloader is a lightweight Tauri interface for youtube-dl that handles playlists, though its license terms are not stated.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Tartube
Desktop front end for youtube-dl that downloads and organizes videos from channels and playlists.
MeTube
A self-hosted web interface for yt-dlp that downloads video and audio from YouTube and other sites.
JDownloader
A Java download manager that fetches files and videos from many hosting sites through plugins.
Seal
An Android app that downloads video and audio from websites, built on yt-dlp.
YTDLnis
An Android app that downloads audio and video from websites using yt-dlp.
