📥 Reelsnag
A clean desktop GUI for yt-dlp. Back up your own videos — $24 once.
Reelsnag at a glance
| Price | $24, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | Downloader subscription sites at $10–15/mo — roughly $144 a year, every year |
| Type | Desktop app — runs offline |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Category | Video & Audio |
Reelsnag features
🔗 Paste a URL → probe
Fetches title, thumbnail, duration, uploader and every available format via yt-dlp -J.
📊 Format & quality picker
Grouped by resolution, audio-only option, "best" default, automatic video+audio merge via ffmpeg when needed.
📥 Real download queue
Multiple jobs, 1–3 concurrent, live progress/speed/ETA, cancel, retry, remove, open-in-folder.
✂️ Trim per job
Optional start/end trim — fast stream-copy with an automatic accurate re-encode fallback.
🎵 Extract MP3
Audio-only downloads with a bitrate picker (128/192/320 kbps) — perfect for podcast backups of your own episodes.
💬 Subtitles
Download available subs or auto-captions as .srt alongside the video.
📋 Batch mode
Paste a list of URLs or load a .txt file (one URL per line) — back up a whole channel's worth at once.
🔄 Self-updating engine
One-click "Update yt-dlp" — extractors break and yt-dlp ships fixes weekly, so this button matters.
$24 once — that's the whole pricing page
Downloader subscription sites charges $10–15/mo — roughly $144 a year, every year. Reelsnag is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Reelsnag inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Reelsnag guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — the full source is MIT at github.com/bensblueprints/reelsnag-mvp and always will be. $24 buys the packaged Windows installer and lifetime updates instead of running npm start yourself.
Is this legal to use?
Reelsnag is built for personal use: backing up your own uploads, content you have rights to, Creative Commons / public-domain media, and material a platform's terms permit you to download. Respect each platform's Terms of Service and copyright law — it is not a tool for redistributing or pirating other people's content, and that's on you to avoid.
What happens when a site changes and downloads break?
That's why the "Update yt-dlp" button exists. The engine is the actively-maintained yt-dlp project, which ships extractor fixes weekly — one click pulls the latest release from GitHub.