Alternatives to Downie for all platforms with any license

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Video DownloadHelper

DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video, audio, and image files from many sites. Just surf the Web as you are used to...

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Chrome Firefox
Microsoft Edge extension Google Chrome Extensions Download YouTube Playlist Firefox Extensions ... Opera extension Convert slideshow to video Download from Soundcloud Youtube integration Add a feature

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FlashGot

Download all the links, movies and audio clips of a page at the maximum speed with a single click.
- Discontinued The extension is currently not working on Firefox 57, it still works on lower versions: https://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=23325&sid=00474d828d2582731536b4ea5146d5af
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Pale Moon Thunderbird ... Firefox
Firefox Extensions Support for FTP Add a feature

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Video-dl

API, website, app, jquery and bash script to download videos from hundreds of websites.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Android Tablet iPad Self-Hosted Apple TV
Jailbreak required License plate detection Portable Root required Add a feature

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Bulk Media Downloader

Grab and download media (image, audio, and video) resources by monitoring network.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome Opera ... Firefox
Audio Recording Lightweight Real-time monitoring Capture Video Add a feature

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streamWriter

streamWriter records music broadcasted by internet-radiostations. Features: Record as many streams as you want at the same time (MP3/AAC) Automatically record a...

Free Open Source Windows
Internet Radio Portable Add a feature

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TubeMaster++

TubeMaster++ is a powerful tool which can capture multimedia files you are watching or listening from your internet browser (FLV,MP3,MP4). Captured files can be saved...
- Discontinued The project seems to be no longer maintained and the official website is no longer available. The last version, v2.7, can be still downloaded from Softpedia and the source code is available on SourceForge (v2.5).
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Built-In ID3 Tag Editor Integrated Search Last.FM Scrobbler Multiple languages Add a feature

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aTube Catcher

Download videos from web sites like Youtube, Dailymotion, Google, Yahoo!, Metacafe, Spike, Megarotic, Yahoo!, CBS, Comedycentral, MyPlay, Globo, RTVE, etc; now has...
- Bundleware The installation may contain third-party programs. Be careful during the installation: https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/
Free Windows
Audio Recording Record desktop activity Convert video to DVD Convert video to audio (mp3) ... Convert YouTube videos to Mp3 Add a feature

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Net Transport

Net Transport (also known as NetXfer) is a shareware (with 30 day trial) download manager and stream ripper for Windows made by Xi Software. The company also develops...
- Discontinued software development seems to be suspended . Last version released on July 21, 2017. See http://www.net-xfer.com/news.htm
Commercial Windows
Download Accelerators Add a feature

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iGetter

iGetter is a full featured download manager and accelerator. It resumes broken downloads and recovers from download errors. It is excellent utility for files that you...

Commercial Mac Windows
Browser integration Download Accelerators Download Queue Download Scheduling ... Support for FTP Mirror search Resume interrupted downloads Shutdown after completing Option Add a feature

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SaveDeo Video Downloader for Android

Easy way to download videos in only two steps! Supported websites: - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Vine - Vimeo - YouTube (Full version only) - SoundCloud...

Freemium Android
Autosave log Download videos from Facebook Add a feature

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iTube Studio

iTube Studio helps you to download videos (HD included) from YouTube, Facebook, Metacafe, Vimeo, Break, and many other video-sharing sites opened in Safari, Chrome or...

Commercial Mac Windows
Built-in player Support for Multiple Resolution Add a feature

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HTTP Ripper

HTTP Ripper is a tool to rip content out of the web. Examples * Download movies from video sites * Download music of you favorite bands website ...

Free Open Source Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

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WebVideoCap

WebVideoCap is a very small program that will let you save the .flv files you encounter on a Web page. After the entire video file is downloaded and played by the Web...

Free Windows
No features added Add a feature

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GetFLV

GetFLV is your complete Web Video Windows solution. Download ANY Web Video to your PC in mere minutes. Support Hundreds Video Sites. Convert ANY videos for your portable...
- Warning GetFLV has a bad reputation on WOT. You can see the comments at http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/getflv.net
Commercial Mac Windows
No features added Add a feature

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RTMPExplorer

RTMPExplorer is a GUI for RTMPDump. This allows to download RTMP and RTMPE streams using freeware RTMPdump automatically. Requires RTMPDump and .NET Framework 4.

Free Windows
No features added Add a feature

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