The Best Open Source SaveFrom.net AlternativesTop Video & YouTube Downloaders like SaveFrom.net

The best open source alternative to SaveFrom.net is NewPipe. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to SaveFrom.net and 13 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to SaveFrom.net are youtube-dl, Youtube Video and Audio Downloader, Youtube-DLG and Vividl.

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  1. NewPipe icon
     671 likes

    Discover and stream videos with a lightweight open-source front-end supporting YouTube, PeerTube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, and more. Enjoy seamless 4K playback, audio in background, and video downloads without the need for Google Services or an account. Perfect for avid streamers.

    148 NewPipe alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • SoundCloud
    • YouTube Music
    • Flathub
    • Bandcamp
    • YouTube
    • F-Droid
    • Flatpak
    • PeerTube
     
  2. Youtube Video and Audio Downloader is an open-source project, downloading Youtube videos (using Firefox download manager) in all available formats (FLV, MP4, WebM, and 3GP) with video quality of your choice.

    207 Youtube Video and Audio Downloader alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Firefox
     
  3. Youtube-DLG icon
     199 likes

    A cross-platform GUI using wxPython for the popular tool youtube-dl, Youtube-DLG supports video downloads from YouTube and over 1000 sites, offers video cutting via ffmpeg, and authentication for YouTube. It features a multi-language UI, supports both youtube-dl and yt-dlp, and is open source in the public domain.

    221 Youtube-DLG alternatives

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • wxPython
     
  4. yt-bat icon
     7 likes

    yt-bat uses yt-dlp to download video or audio from many sites without requiring you to use the command-line.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. YoutubeDownloader is an application that lets you download videos from YouTube. You can just copy-paste URLs of any videos or playlists and download them directly to a format of your choice. It also supports searching by keywords, which is helpful if you want to quickly look up...

    191 YoutubeDownloader alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  6. YDL-UI icon
     1 like

    YDL-UI provides a simplified way to download videos using youtube-dl , without the hassle of using the command-line. This is achieved by dynamically generating youtube-dl argument queries that can be run with a click of a button.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. YoutubeExplode - Light-weight .NET library that parses meta data on Youtube videos and lets you download them (C#)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Ytmdl icon
     1 like

    Download songs from YouTube by getting the audio from YouTube and the metadata from sources like Itunes and Gaana.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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