VideoGrab
Paste a link. Pick a format. Done.
A tiny macOS app for downloading YouTube and Instagram videos. Paste a link, choose MP4 or MP3, and VideoGrab grabs the highest-quality streams, merges them, and drops the file straight into your Downloads folder.
macOS 13 Ventura · Apple Silicon or Intel · Right-click → Open on first launch
What it does
Paste & go
Drop in a YouTube or Instagram link and hit download. No setup, no preferences to dig through.
MP4 or MP3
Best-quality video with the audio merged in, or pull just the audio as a clean MP3.
Self-installing
On first launch it fetches yt-dlp and ffmpeg privately into its own folder — no Homebrew, nothing installed system-wide.
Live progress
A real-time progress bar, then a Show in Finder shortcut when the file lands in your Downloads folder.
Build it yourself
VideoGrab's full source is on GitHub — SwiftUI, no third-party dependencies. Clone it, open the Xcode project, and press Run. It's ad-hoc signed, so no Apple Developer account is needed.
git clone https://github.com/MotionPeak/VideoGrab.git