youtube-dl Alternatives
youtube-dl is described as 'Augmentable with front-ends such as Youtube-DLG , youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from' and is a well-known app in the OS & Utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to youtube-dl for a variety of platforms, including Windows, the Web, Mac, Linux and Android. The best alternative is Youtube-DLG, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like youtube-dl are NewPipe (Free, Open Source), Video DownloadHelper (Freemium), 4k Video Downloader (Freemium) and ClipGrab (Free, Open Source).
- YTD allows you to download videos from Facebook, DailyMotion, Vimeo, Yahoo Video, and many others and convert them to other video formats. View 210 alternatives to YTD
YTD
Sponsored- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython. View 175 alternatives to Youtube-DLG
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.4, released in July 2017, can be still downloaded from the official website
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- wxPython
Youtube-DLG vs youtube-dl
Youtube-DLG is a frontend for youtube-dl. It still requires youtube-dl to function.This is the best program I could find. - The lightweight, free and open source YouTube experience for Android. View 88 alternatives to NewPipe
- Free • Open Source
- Android
- Android Tablet
- YouTube
NewPipe vs youtube-dl
makes it easy to download videos, it's open source and also doesn't have ads. - DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video, audio, and image files from many sites. View 172 alternatives to Video DownloadHelper
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
- Desktop tool to download high quality videos from mainstream platforms including support for playlists, channels and subtitles. View 237 alternatives to 4k Video Downloader
- ClipGrab is a free downloader and converter for YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Dailymotion and many other online video sites. View 176 alternatives to ClipGrab
Bundleware
The default Windows installer contains Opencandy. A version with no third-party offers is available in Download options.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Download YouTube videos in all available formats and extract the original audio files. View 182 alternatives to Youtube Video and Audio Downloader
- Grab and download media (image, audio, and video) resources by monitoring network. View 136 alternatives to Bulk Media Downloader
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Google Chrome
- Opera
- Firefox
- You can download individual videos, and even whole channels and playlists, from YouTube and hundreds of other websites. View 18 alternatives to Tartube
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- Freemake Video Downloader is a free video downloader for YouTube, Google, Facebook, Dailymotion and other sites. View 217 alternatives to Freemake Video Downloader
Bundleware
The installer contains OpenCandy. Be careful during the installation: Forum
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Windows