A clean desktop GUI for yt-dlp. Back up your own videos — $24 once.
YouTubers pay monthly for screen recording, captions, clipping and scheduling before the channel earns a cent. One-time tools fix the cost of production at the price of a single video's ad revenue.
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.
Fetches title, thumbnail, duration, uploader and every available format via yt-dlp -J.
For youtubers, paste a URL → probe pays off between filming and the upload deadline — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.
Grouped by resolution, audio-only option, "best" default, automatic video+audio merge via ffmpeg when needed.
For youtubers, format & quality picker pays off between filming and the upload deadline — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.
Multiple jobs, 1–3 concurrent, live progress/speed/ETA, cancel, retry, remove, open-in-folder.
For youtubers, real download queue pays off between filming and the upload deadline — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.
One-time $24 for the packaged Windows installer with lifetime updates. No account, no ads.
yt-dlp comes from the official GitHub releases and ffmpeg is bundled — both with a visible progress bar, one time only.
Probe a URL, choose quality or audio-only, set trim/subtitles if you want them, and watch the queue work.
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.
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 youtubers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
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.
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.