# Media Downloader (open-source downloader and converter)

> 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 5,041 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-2.0 license.

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.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/mhogomchungu/media-downloader |
| Platforms | Linux, macOS, Windows |
| Interface | desktop GUI |
| GitHub stars | 5,041 |
| License | GPL-2.0 (open source) |
| Replaces | n/a |
| Use it as | YouTube downloader |
| Language | C++ |
| Website | none listed |
| Official | no |
| Category | Downloaders & converters |
| Latest release | 5.6.6 (Sep 9, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 7, 2026 |

## Install

### Flathub (Linux)

```sh
flatpak install flathub io.github.mhogomchungu.media-downloader
```

Package page: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.mhogomchungu.media-downloader

### AUR (Arch Linux)

Package page: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/media-downloader

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