The best video downloaders for Mac in 2026

Koi is an all-in-one Mac assistant, and its video downloader is one of the Tools in your notch. Paste a link from YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram, Vimeo or hundreds of other sites and press Return, or drop the link on the notch. There's nothing to pick: it downloads at once, at the biggest size there is, with its sound, saved to Downloads under the video's title and put in the Files Tray. A red ring beside the notch shows how far it's got.

On a call you can ask for it instead: “download this video”, “just the sound” for an M4A, or “in 720”. Your Mac fetches the video straight from the site, never through Koi.

Where it loses: no playlists, no private, paid or DRM videos, no browser extension, and a live stream waits until it ends. When a site changes, the fix comes with Koi's next update. It isn't sold on its own: it comes with Koi Pro or Lifetime, after a 3-day free trial (card needed).

Downie, by Charlie Monroe Software, downloads from YouTube, Vimeo and, its site says, more than 1,000 other sites, up to 4K on YouTube. Its extensions for Safari, Chrome and Firefox send a link straight to it.

A permanent license is $19.99 from the developer, before VAT or sales tax, with up to 3 activations, and there's a free trial. It's also in Setapp. It isn't on the Mac App Store: the developer says Apple doesn't allow YouTube downloaders there. It needs macOS 13 or later. More in our Downie alternatives.

Pulltube's site says it saves from more than 1,000 sites, up to 8K. It trims a video before you download it, saves the sound as MP3 or M4A, downloads subtitles, YouTube's automatic ones too, and lets you pick videos out of a playlist. It has extensions for Chrome, Safari and Firefox.

It has a 7-day trial, and one license covers 2 Macs. Its Setapp page lists it from $19.99 on its own, or in Setapp, for macOS 13 or later.

4K Video Downloader Plus runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, and on macOS 12 or later. It saves playlists, channels and search results in one click, up to 8K, with subtitles as SRT files, and can download a channel's new videos by itself.

There's a free version with limits on how much you download. Lite is $15 a year and Personal is $25 once, both for personal use.

yt-dlp is a free, open source command line downloader, for macOS 10.15 or later as a standalone program. It does playlists and has far more options than any app's window shows; joining a picture and a sound that come separately needs ffmpeg too. It's also what Koi runs inside, so the sites it knows are the sites Koi knows.