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About MediaHuman YouTube Downloader
MediaHuman YouTube Downloader saves online videos to disk. It can fetch a whole playlist or channel at once, download several videos simultaneously, and keep resolutions up to 4K and 8K with audio. It can also extract the audio track as MP3 and export to iTunes or the Music app.
Besides YouTube it works with Facebook, Vimeo, Dailymotion and other sites. It runs on macOS, Windows and Ubuntu, and version 3.9.23 was released in August 2026.
Strengths
- Downloads whole playlists and channels
- Supports 4K and 8K video with audio
- Extracts audio as MP3
- Builds for macOS, Windows and Ubuntu
Limitations
- Proprietary software
- Downloading may conflict with the terms of the sites involved
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to download from the developer's site.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- MediaHuman
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Saving YouTube playlists or channels for offline viewing
- Categories
- Video editing, Audio tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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yt-dlp
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Parabolic
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ClipGrab
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ClipGrab is open source under GPLv3 and converts downloads to MP4 or MP3 in one step, though its macOS version is still a beta.
Stacher
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ytDownloader
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Tartube
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Tartube is an open-source youtube-dl front end for Windows and Linux that organizes channels and playlists in a library and checks followed channels for new videos.
Open Video Downloader
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Open Video Downloader is a lightweight Tauri interface for youtube-dl that handles playlists as well as single videos, though its license terms are not stated.
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