Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to OSGUI
Lightweight but powerful desktop GUI for yt-dlp
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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A clean and minimal youtube frontend, without all the ads and whistles - christian-fei/my-yt
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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youtube-dl-gui: a cross-platform gui for youtube-dl
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop applications with native Svelte + powerful CSS-like styling.🚀 - nodegui/svelte-nodegui
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A video and channel downloader that supports 110 websites, powered by Electron and youtube-dl - mayeaux/videodownloader
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple, configurable youtube-dl wrapper to download and manage youtube audio - RijulGulati/yt-audio
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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OpenBrief is basically a GUI for yt-dlp with some AI on top — paste a link, it downloads locally, and transcription and voice generation run with local AI on your machine. Summaries and chat over the transcript use an LLM, which is bring-your-own-key for now. It's open source and free.
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simple menu bar tool for sharing files from your Mac
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Posix script to browse youtube plus other yt-dlp supported sites from your terminal (fzf) or app launcher (rofi) with optional previews. (supports bash, zsh and dash) - Benexl/yt-x
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A native macOS tab bar library with split pane support for SwiftUI applications. Features 120fps animations, drag-and-drop tabs, and full keyboard navigation.
Jan 2026 · bonsplit.alasdairmonk.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I wanted to share this OSS project I've been working on. It's called Yap and its a small menu-bar app for macOS that does voice to text for any input. You'll set a hotkey, press it, talk, press it again, and the text gets pasted into whatever field you were in. Everything runs locally and never leaves your computer. Fully OSS and MIT licensed. With macOS 26, Apple recently added two new APIs, SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber, that do streaming on-device speech to text using models the OS ships and manages. So the app ships no model of its own and loads nothing before the first…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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nodegui▲195Build cross-platform desktop applications with JavaScript🚀
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MacGap▲166Build native OS X apps with web technologies
2014 · macgapproject.github.io · its alternatives →
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A design system for building faithful recreations of the Windows 7 UI.
2025 · khang-nd.github.io · its alternatives →
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Personally, I think the JJ VCS (https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj) hit a point some time in this past year where I find it hard to find a great reason to continue using git. Over the years I've cobbled together aliases and bash functions to try to improve my git workflow, but after using jj, which works with ~any git repo and integrates great with Github repos, all of the workflow issues I ran into with git are not only solved, but improved in ways I couldn't manage with simple scripts. One example is the op log, which lets you go to any point in your repo's time and provides…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Contribute to letientai299/7guis development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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m2m, a purely command line bash application which allows you to download any video or playlist off of youtube dailymotion and pretty much anything yt-dlp supports
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Youwee▲3A modern YouTube downloader (yt-dlp GUI) for cross-platform
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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