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yt-dlpOnionMedia X
Free

Released into the public domain under the Unlicense; there is nothing to buy.

 Free

Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.

Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line Linux
  • Supports thousands of sites, listed in the project’s own supportedsites page
  • Fine-grained format selection, subtitle, thumbnail and metadata embedding
  • Downloading and converting in one app
  • Graphical interface instead of command line
  • Command line only; the graphical tools around it are separate projects
  • Merging separate video and audio streams needs FFmpeg installed
  • Smaller and younger than the original Windows edition
  • Download support depends on upstream site changes
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: Unlicense License: AGPL-3.0-only
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 20, 2026

Checked October 1, 2026

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