Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to TBD: a native, minimalist macOS front end for yt-dlp
A native macOS downloader built on yt-dlp. Paste a link, get the file — and drive it from your phone over your own Wi-Fi. - eliorpom-cmd/to-be-downloaded
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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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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MacGap▲166Build native OS X apps with web technologies
2014 · macgapproject.github.io · its alternatives →
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This is ymawky, a static file web server for MacOS written entirely in ARM64 assembly. It supports GET, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, and OPTIONS requests, and supports Range: bytes=X-Y headers (which allows scrubbing for video streaming). It decodes percent-encoded URLs, strictly enforces docroot, serves custom error pages for any HTTP error response, supports directory listing, and has (some) mitigations against slowloris-like attacks. I’ve also written a more detailed writeup here: https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Download YouTube video & audio. Watch and listen offline
2015 · softorino.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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A simple, configurable youtube-dl wrapper to download and manage youtube audio - RijulGulati/yt-audio
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Yapfree▲140Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device
Jul 2026 · frigade.com · its alternatives →
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JusTTY▲85Introducing JusTTY - A simple native macOS terminal built with Swift and libghostty. Minimal be design, suited for everyday use, just not packed with the bells and whistles power users expect.
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DockDuck▲97The native macOS file manager Finder should be
Aug 2026 · dockduck.app · 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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Hello HN, I've been working on this project for a while, and it has been in an "open" beta for some time. I finally believe it's ready for its first release. I hope you like it. Here are some potential questions that may arise: 1. How does it compare to LM Studio? It's likely that if you're already using LM Studio, you'll continue to do so. This project is designed to be more user-friendly. 2. Is it open-source? No, it is not. 3. Does it use any open-source libraries? Yes, it uses llama.cpp and a few others, as indicated in the license information included with the application. 4. Why is not…
2023 · avapls.com · its alternatives →
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YouTube download library and CLI written in Go. Contribute to rylio/ytdl development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Native, fast and beautiful video downloader for macOS.
Jan 2026 · alinuxpengui.github.io · its alternatives →
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- 20IPABUILD▲37
Revolutionary macOS cloud-based compilation cluster.
Dec 2025 · ipabuild.com · its alternatives →
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Hivelex▲1310 essential dev tools in one beautiful native macOS app
2025 · hivelex.com · its alternatives →
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https://freakynit.gumroad.com/l/downloads-director MacOS app that automatically moves downloaded files into folders based on their extensions. You can create custom rules (e.g., .jpg → Pictures) and apply them in real time or on-demand. It works in the background and supports both ARM and Intel Macs. Free to use. Feedback welcome! Thanks.. PS: No strings attached kind of free. No personally identifiable data is collected. Completely safe to use. Just something I built for myself, then polished it a bit for others to use.
2025 · freakynit.gumroad.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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Hi there! During last time we (me and my friend) were building an app to clean various stuff after Xcode. I was fed up as a developer that Apple related things load my drive and I need hundreds of gigabytes just to do my job. It's live now on Mac App Store and we'll be glad to hear your feedback: https://apps.apple.com/ua/app/cleano/id6469460523 Features - Simulators cleanup. It's a correct cleanup via 'simctl' so you even don't need to restart Xcode for it to take effect - SPM repos cache. Swift PM stores github repos for packages separately and never removes…
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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