Grabbit

There's a gap between knowing a video exists and actually having it. Command-line tools can reach it — but not everyone wants to live in a terminal. And browser extensions do too little the moment you need format control, a queue, or a playlist.

Grabbit fills that gap. It wraps yt-dlp — one of the most capable download engines available — in a clean desktop interface. Paste a URL, pick your format, and add it to the queue. That's the whole flow.

The queue is the core of Grabbit. Downloads run concurrently, can be paused or resumed individually or all at once, and survive a restart — the queue is persisted to disk. When something fails, a single click retries it.

Format control is where Grabbit goes further than most tools. Video quality and codec, audio format and quality, subtitle language and format — each is selected independently, either as a global default in Settings or overridden per download. Output goes to MP4 or MKV, your choice.

For power users, an advanced options modal exposes any yt-dlp parameter directly. Configurations can be saved as named presets and reused across downloads. Proxy support, rate limiting, cookies and a full diagnostics panel are all there when you need them.

Open source. MIT licensed. Built in the AurigaLAB.