A graphical front end for yt-dlp, inspired by the yt-dlg oleksis fork. It's designed to be dead simple to use and to fix the minor things that annoyed me with other GUIs. The big addition is folder rules, which pick the destination folder automatically based on where a video comes from.
This was an experiment with Claude Opus 5.5 and it went fairly well. Since I reviewed and edited the code I do not consider this to be "vibe coded" but almost all the code in one way or another was written by Claude. I consider it ready to use.
Presets are plain yt-dlp options, so you can paste in the command you already use. If a folder isn't right, change it on the download and click Remember to make it a rule. When something fails, the app says why in plain words, retries network trouble by itself, and points you at cookies or a slower pace when that's what's needed.
Rules are checked top to bottom and the first match decides. If nothing matches, the fallback folder is used.
{site}, {channel} or any yt-dlp field in the folder path,
with fallbacks like {channel|uploader|"Unknown"}
| When | Save to |
|---|---|
Site equals Wikimedia | Videos\Open movies\{title} |
Channel contains lecture | Videos\Learning\{channel|uploader} |
Domain equals archive.org | Music\Internet Archive\{title} |
| No rule matched | Videos\{site}\{channel|uploader|"Unknown"} |
The default preset is set up for keeping videos, not just watching them once.
The first time you open it, the app installs yt-dlp, and FFmpeg and deno are one click each. Everything it installs comes from the official releases and is checked against the published SHA-256 checksums. If you already have them installed, it uses yours.
yt-dlp is checked for updates every day. If a new release breaks something, you can roll back to the previous one with one click. Each preset can use stable, nightly or master yt-dlp, your own fork, or youtube-dl.
There are no accounts, analytics or telemetry. The app only connects to GitHub, for tools and update checks, and to the sites you download from. See the privacy policy, and the README for everything else.
Get the latest build from Releases. Builds are self-contained, so you don't need .NET installed.
The easiest way is the Microsoft Store: it's signed and updates itself.
Or get the standalone .exe in a .zip from Releases (win-x64, or
win-arm64 for ARM PCs). That one isn't code-signed, so
SmartScreen may warn on first launch: choose More info → Run anyway. The zip version is
portable: it keeps its settings in a data folder next to the .exe.
An .AppImage: make it executable and run it. Or a
.tar.gz: unpack it and run ./install.sh (--remove uninstalls).
Not notarized, so macOS blocks it the first time: open it once, then choose System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway (on macOS 14, right-click the app and choose Open).