Innovative developers have created applications that allow you to bypass the web-only barrier of YouTube. We recommend the best tools.
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How to Download YouTube Videos, Playlists, and Channels on Linux with 4K Video Downloader Plus
Download YouTube videos, playlists, channels, subtitles and audio on Linux with 4K Video Downloader Plus and its graphical interface.
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LoMux – lightweight FFmpeg media converter
LoMux is a lightweight media converter with an FFmpeg-powered GUI, presets, batch processing, trimming, subtitles, metadata, and yt-dlp support.
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Open Video Downloader – cross-platform yt-dlp GUI
Open Video Downloader is a cross-platform yt-dlp GUI for downloading videos, audio, subtitles and playlists with queues and quality controls.
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GDownloader – GUI for yt-dlp, gallery-dl and spotDL
GDownloader is a graphical frontend for yt-dlp, gallery-dl and spotDL with batch downloads, playlists, hardware transcoding, and automatic updates.
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20 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based YouTube Tools
Funky developers have created applications that allow you to bypass the web-only barrier of YouTube. Here’s our recommended terminal-based YouTube tools.
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GopherTube – terminal YouTube client for searching and watching videos
GopherTube is a terminal YouTube client for searching and watching videos without using a full web browser.
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ytm-player – terminal-based client for YouTube Music
ytm-player provides a keyboard-driven interface for browsing and playing music from a YouTube Music account.
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Pulsar – yt-dlp GUI
Pulsar is a desktop media utility for Linux, macOS, and Windows that wraps yt-dlp and ffmpeg in a polished graphical interface.
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PsTube – Flutter-based video client
PsTube is a Flutter-based video client for watching and downloading YouTube videos
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Materialious – frontend for YouTube and Invidious
Materialious is a privacy-focused frontend for YouTube and Invidious that uses a modern material design interface.
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OmniGet – download media and other files
OmniGet is a desktop application built with Tauri that lets you download media and other files from a broad range of online sources.
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yewtube – terminal based YouTube player and downloader
yewtube is a terminal-based application for searching, playing, and downloading YouTube content without requiring a YouTube API key.
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NeoDLP – feature-rich video/audio downloader based on yt-dlp
NeoDLP (Neo Downloader Plus) is a cross-platform application that provides a graphical interface for the popular yt-dlp media downloader.
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ytdl-gui – graphical interface for yt-dlp
ytdl-gui is a simple-to-use tool to download videos or audios from various sources including Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo…
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musicfetch-ng – download and tag music from YouTube
With Musicfetch you can use the power of yt-dlp to search for Albums, Songs or Playlists, download them.
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Sunder – desktop YouTube music client
Sunder is a native desktop music player that streams from YouTube without the bloat.
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Mixtapes – modern, Linux-first YouTube Music player
Mixtapes (formerly Muse) is a modern, Linux-first YouTube Music player.
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tuitube – TUI to download videos
tuitube is a TUI to download videos from YouTube, 𝕏, Twitch, Instagram, Bilibili and more using yt-dlp CLI.
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xytz – TUI frontend for yt-dlp
xytz is a TUI app for searching and downloading YouTube videos, built with Go and Bubble Tea. It uses yt-dlp.
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