Coaches & Course Creators

Reelsnag for Coaches & Course Creators: A clean desktop GUI for yt-dlp

A clean desktop GUI for yt-dlp. Back up your own videos — $24 once.

Coaches juggle booking links, course platforms, community tools and invoicing — easily $200+/mo before their first client. Pay-once software turns that stack into a fixed, owned asset.

The tool this job usually means renting is Downloader subscription sites, at $10–15/mo — roughly $144 a year, every year. Reelsnag does the job for a one-time $24 — running locally on your own machine.

Fit check

Why it fits how coaches & course creators work

🔗 Paste a URL → probe

Fetches title, thumbnail, duration, uploader and every available format via yt-dlp -J.

For coaches & course creators, paste a URL → probe pays off between client sessions — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.

📊 Format & quality picker

Grouped by resolution, audio-only option, "best" default, automatic video+audio merge via ffmpeg when needed.

For coaches & course creators, format & quality picker pays off between client sessions — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.

📥 Real download queue

Multiple jobs, 1–3 concurrent, live progress/speed/ETA, cancel, retry, remove, open-in-folder.

For coaches & course creators, real download queue pays off between client sessions — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.

Workflow

A typical workflow

STEP 01

Buy once on Whop

One-time $24 for the packaged Windows installer with lifetime updates. No account, no ads.

STEP 02

First run fetches the engine

yt-dlp comes from the official GitHub releases and ffmpeg is bundled — both with a visible progress bar, one time only.

STEP 03

Paste, pick, queue

Probe a URL, choose quality or audio-only, set trim/subtitles if you want them, and watch the queue work.

What it costs, honestly

Reelsnag is $24, once. Downloader subscription sites at $10–15/mo — roughly $144 a year, every year. Pays for itself in under 2 months versus a $12/mo converter subscription — everything after that is free.

FAQ

Coaches & Course Creators ask

Is Reelsnag worth it for coaches & course creators?

Pays for itself in under 2 months versus a $12/mo converter subscription — everything after that is free. Reelsnag costs $24 once; Downloader subscription sites charges $10–15/mo — about $144 a year. For coaches & course creators, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.

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.

Own Reelsnag forever — $24