macOS · free

VidGrab

Paste any video link from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, or X and get a clean MP4 in seconds. VidGrab runs entirely on your machine using yt-dlp and ffmpeg. No accounts, no cloud uploads, no watermarks. Supports quality selection from 360p up to 4K (where available). One command to start, then use it from your browser.

↓ Download vidgrab.zipv1.0 · added 2026-06-23

This one talks to macOS directly (ports, DNS, Keychain, the hosts file or hardware), so it runs from the download rather than in the browser. Nothing is uploaded.

Download & run

Install requirements
VidGrab needs Node.js, yt-dlp (brew install yt-dlp), and ffmpeg (brew install ffmpeg) on your machine.
Start the server
Unzip the download. Open a terminal in the vidgrab/ folder and run node server.js. You'll see "VidGrab running at http://localhost:4562".
Paste and download
Open http://localhost:4562 in your browser. Paste any YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, or X video URL. Click "Get Video Info", choose a quality, then hit "Download MP4".