7 Free and Open-source Downloader Apps for macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon)

1- AllToMP3

Download and Convert YouTube, SoundCloud & Spotify in MP3 with full tags (title, artist, genre, cover, lyrics 🔥)

AllToMP3 is a desktop application to download and convert YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Deezer in 256 kb/s MP3, with tags: cover, title, artist, genre, and even lyrics!. It supports YouTube playlists, Deezer and Spotify playlists, and also integrate a search engine so you can simply specify a song name or an album and AllToMP3 will download it.

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2- Get It

A macOS GUI for youtube-dl

A macOS video/audio downloader. Think of it as a youtube downloader that works on many sites.

Get It will download audio and/or movies from many websites such as YouTube, BBC, Instagram, ... It's a GUI round the popular YouTube-DL command-line program but with an easy to use interface. It will save your settings dynamically or you can restore the default settings. The default settings will download the audio from a video, convert it to an MP3 and save it to you downloads folder. This was, in my opinion, the mostly used setting.

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3- Motrix

A full-featured download manager for macOS

Motrix is a full-featured download manager that supports downloading HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, etc.

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4- Pillager

A macOS Video Downloader written in Swift and Obj.-C

Pillager is a free open-source macOS Video Downloader written in Swift and Obj.-C

Pillager uses youtube-dl and FFmpeg under the hood.

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5- qBittorrent

Bittorrent client

qBittorrent is An advanced and multi-platform BitTorrent client with a nice Qt user interface as well as a Web UI for remote control and an integrated search engine. qBittorrent aims to meet the needs of most users while using as little CPU and memory as possible.

qBittorrent is a bittorrent client programmed in C++ / Qt that uses libtorrent (sometimes called libtorrent-rasterbar) by Arvid Norberg.

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6- Deluge

Lightweight cross-platform BitTorrent client.

Deluge is a BitTorrent client that utilizes a daemon/client model. It has various user interfaces available such as the GTK-UI, Web-UI and Console-UI. It uses libtorrent at its core to handle the BitTorrent protocol.

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7- Transmission

A Fast, Easy and Free Bittorrent Client

Transmission is designed for easy, powerful use. We've set the defaults to just work and it only takes a few clicks to configure advanced features like watch directories, bad peer blocklists, and the web interface. When Ubuntu chose Transmission as its default BitTorrent client, one of the most-cited reasons was its easy learning curve.

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