Downie – Ever wished you could save a video from the Internet? Search no more, Downie is what you’re looking for. Easily download videos from thousands of different sites. Supports many sites – currently supports over 1,000 different sites (including YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) and the number is rapidly growing. 4K video YouTube support – unlike many other YouTube downloaders, Downie supports HD video on YouTube, up to 4K.

Key Features

• Supports many sites – currently supports over 1,000 different sites (including YouTube, Youku, Bilibili, Vimeo, etc.) and the number is rapidly growing.
• 4K video YouTube support – unlike many other YouTube downloaders, Downie supports HD video on YouTube, up to 4K.
• Postprocessing – need your video in MP4 for iTunes? Or want just the audio track? No problem, Downie can handle this for you automatically!
• Quick support – I respond to emails usually within 24 hours and often add support for requested sites in the next update.
• Frequent updates – Don‘t wait weeks for new sites to be supported, or bugs to be fixed! Downie is updated about once a week with new features, sites supported, etc.
• International – not only that Downie supports country-specific sites, it is localized into various languages. If your language is missing, contact us – we can offer you a free license in exchange for a translation.

New in Downie 4

• UI Redesign – the UI has been redesigned with more options at hand, while not cluttering the UI.
• Menu Bar Control – control the app from the menu bar – without the need for the Dock icon.
• Customizations – custom postprocessing using your own shell script, custom file name formatting, and much more.
• Improved Speed – YouTube videos load up to 6 times faster with Downie 4 when compared to Downie 3!
• Metadata Improvements – the metadata that Downie gathers can be written into an external JSON file for further custom processing.
• Improved User-Guided Extraction – the UGE window now has history, allows saving favorites and much more.
• … and much more! – many minor improvements, like custom naming schemes, option to force MP4 downloads, better cancellation, priority flags, etc…

Tips for using Downie

• To start, you can drag a link from any browser either on Downie‘s window, or the icon in the Dock.
• If you have more links, or links within some text, just drop the whole thing onto Downie – it will scan the text for links.
• You can use copy and paste as well – just press Command-O in Downie and you can insert all the links in the world!

What’s New in Downie 4.1.13

• Improved: tv4play.se, vrt.be, vimeo.com.
• Improved: macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility.

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