Free & open source · for macOS

Downbender

The last download master. Bend videos down to your Mac — up to 1080p, or extract the audio as MP3. YouTube first and foremost, plus many other sites.

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macOS 26+ · Apple Silicon · GPLv3 · no account, no ads, no tricks

One window, zero friction

Paste a link. Pick a quality. Done.

A download queue with real progress, pause & resume, clipboard detection and a glance-friendly deep-water look.

What it bends

Everything a downloader should master

1080p video or clean MP3

Crisp MP4 (H.264) up to 1080p that plays everywhere, or one-tap MP3 extraction at top quality.

YouTube & beyond

Battle-tested on YouTube, and speaks yt-dlp's language for many other sites — X, Vimeo, TikTok and friends (still maturing).

Updates itself

One click updates both the app and its engine. yt-dlp, FFmpeg and Deno ship inside — nothing else to install, ever.

Two moves

Install it like a master

1

Download the DMG and drag Downbender into Applications.

2

First launch only: macOS blocks apps not notarized by Apple. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

Or install with Homebrew:
brew install --cask naztirs/tap/downbender
Terminal alternative to "Open Anyway":
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Downbender.app
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