Video Grabber

Paste a link, get an MP4. A free Mac app that downloads videos from many sites.

Download for Mac

Free · version 1.0.2 · 3.0 MB disk image · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon or Intel

Video Grabber downloading a list of videos: one in progress with its speed and time remaining, four finished and saved as MP4. — Shown: Blender Foundation open movies (CC BY).

What it does

Links in, video files out

Paste one or more video links and Video Grabber saves each one as an H.264 MP4 at up to 1080p, 720p or 480p — or as M4A audio only. Ask for a whole playlist and it fetches every item. Everything goes into a folder you choose, and the files open in any Mac video player.

H.264 MP4 at up to 1080p, 720p or 480p
M4A when you only want the audio
Several links at once, or a whole playlist
Saved to the folder you pick

Supported sites: the sites the open-source yt-dlp tool supports, such as YouTube, Vimeo, X and Facebook.

Requirements

What you need

macOS 14 or later: One universal app for Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
An internet connection on first launch: It downloads about 75 MB of free tools the first time it runs (see Credits).
Price: Free. No account, no subscription.

Install

Three steps

Download and open VideoGrabber-1.0.2.dmg.
Drag Video Grabber into Applications.
Open it and paste a link.

It is distributed from this site rather than the App Store, signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

What’s new

Version 1.0.2

The progress bar now fills all the way for sites that send one file, such as X and Facebook, instead of stopping at 90%.
Facebook videos are saved as Uploader [video id]. Facebook often gives unrelated videos the same title, which stopped a second one from downloading.

If you have 1.0, download this version once; Video Grabber updates itself from then on. It checks once a day, and you can check any time from Video Grabber › Check for Updates…

Responsible use

Your videos, or ones you may save

Only download videos you own or have permission to save.

Many sites’ terms restrict downloading, and copyright applies to what you save. You are responsible for what you download.

Privacy

It collects no data

Video Grabber has no analytics, no account and no tracking, and sends nothing about you or what you download to TraLand.com.

It connects only to the sites you ask it to download from, and to fetch and update its tools: GitHub (yt-dlp and Deno) and ffmpeg.martin-riedl.de (FFmpeg). Each tool is checked against its published checksum before it is used.

Credits

Built on open-source tools

Video Grabber is the Mac app around three free tools. They are not bundled: the app downloads each one from its official source on first launch, under its own licence.

Tool	Used for	Licence
yt-dlp	Finding and downloading the video	Unlicense
Deno	JavaScript runtime that yt-dlp needs	MIT
FFmpeg	Merging and converting to MP4 / M4A	LGPL / GPL

Contact

Support, takedown and abuse reports

Email support@traland.com.

Download check — SHA-256 of VideoGrabber-1.0.2.dmg: 2ce9675a57e7fbf44fdecbf25c7599a4ffc24a480cb39f2dae6e77879f482a6a