OmniGet

OmniGet is a free, open source desktop app that downloads videos, online courses, and files from the internet. You paste a link, pick a quality, and it downloads. That's the whole thing.

I built it because I was tired of juggling four different tools every time I wanted to save something. One app for YouTube, a different one for torrents, a sketchy website for Instagram, some script I copy-pasted from a forum for Udemy. Never again.

What it downloads

Videos from 1000+ sites via yt-dlp. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Twitch, Pinterest, Vimeo, Bluesky. If a browser can play it, OmniGet can usually grab it. It also has native support for the Chinese platforms that most Western downloaders completely ignore: Bilibili, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Kuaishou, Youku, Tencent Video, iQiyi, Mango TV. I put real work into those because a lot of my users asked for them.

Full online courses from Udemy, Hotmart, Kiwify, Teachable, Kajabi, Skool, Pluralsight, MasterClass, Rocketseat, and a few more. You log in once, pick the course, and it pulls every lesson, attachment, and description to your disk. This is honestly the feature people write me about the most. If you paid for a course, it should be yours, and losing access because a platform shuts down or changes its rules should not be a thing that happens to you.

Telegram media too, even from private channels you belong to. And torrents, with a proper built-in client, so you don't need to go install qBittorrent alongside.

Sending files between computers

This is the part I'm most proud of. You pick a file, OmniGet gives you a 4-word code, you send the code to whoever you want the file to reach. They paste it into their OmniGet and the file starts arriving. Directly between the two machines. No Google Drive, no WhatsApp compression, no account on any side, no upload to any server.

It works even when both people are on completely different networks, in different countries. It uses a dumb relay.

How it actually fits into your day

You don't even need to keep the app open. Copy a link anywhere, press a hotkey you set (F1), and the download just starts. You can keep doing whatever you were doing.

There's also a Chrome extension. One click on any page with a video and it kicks off the download in the desktop app, cookies and all, so stuff behind a login still works.

Why I think it's worth trying

It looks nice too. 11 themes, including Catppuccin, Dracula, and a few NyxVamp variants I made because I wanted something moodier. 8 languages: English, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Italian, French, Greek.

There's a plugin marketplace if you want extras (course downloading, Telegram, format conversion), and the plugin SDK is open if you want to build your own.