8 Free and Open-source Media Apps for macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon)

1- 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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2- HandBreak

Multimedia video converter

HandBeak is a video converter and transcode engine for macOS, Windows and Linux. It's free and open source. I have used it several times for my videos it's really easy to use has built-in preset library, supports multiple input sources and dozens of formats and quality options.

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3- Iina

Multimedia player for macOS

Iina: The most innovative open-source media/ video player for macOS with clean UI. It supports dark mode, picture-in-picture mode out of box, touch-bar support and it has very nice music mode as well.

Iina is fully customizable as you can customize the user-interface, online streaming, playlist and has a plugin system.

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4- Kap Screen Capture

Capture your screens in GIF and Video

Kap is a free open-source screen recorder for macOS. It supports Apple Intel and M1.

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5- mpv

a free, open source, and cross-platform media player

mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

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6- Museeks

A simple, clean and cross-platform music player.

A simple, clean and cross-platform music player.

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7- Nulloy

Free Open-source Audio Player

Nulloy is a free open-source (OSS) Audiophile audio player.

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8- Phonix

Free music player for macOS

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