Media Downloader
Media Downloader is a free, open-source downloader and converter for Windows, macOS and Linux. Media Downloader is a Qt/C++ front end to yt-dlp, youtube-dl, gallery-dl, lux, you-get, svtplay-dl, aria2c, wget and safari books. It has 5,089 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-2.0 license.
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About Media Downloader
This project is a Qt/C++ based GUI frontend to CLI multiple CLI-based tools that deal with downloading online media. yt-dlp CLI tool is the default supported tool and other tools can be added by downloading their extension and a list of supported extensions is managed here.
Install Media Downloader
Package names found in the project's README. Each links to its package page so you can check the publisher first.
flatpak install flathub io.github.mhogomchungu.media-downloaderAUR (Arch Linux)
Replaces
Commercial software people commonly use Media Downloader instead of.
Use it as a free YouTube downloader.
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Is Media Downloader free and open source?
Yes. Media Downloader's source code is public on GitHub under the GPL-2.0 license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free, so you can use, copy and change it for free.
How do I install Media Downloader?
Flathub: flatpak install flathub io.github.mhogomchungu.media-downloader and the AUR package media-downloader. The commands are on this page. Installers are also on its GitHub Releases page (latest: 5.6.7).
Is Media Downloader still maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Oct 27, 2026. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.