Entertainment, music and news consumption
Online video downloaders and players
Tools that download videos and audio from YouTube, TikTok and other sites, plus browser extensions and apps for playing, controlling, and syncing video playback, aimed at everyday viewers who want offline copies or better viewing controls.
Built for: Everyday online video watchers
Projects since May 04
229
Different builders
221
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-6%
AI is the core
0.4%
Projects per week
Mostly browser extension (28%), desktop app (28%), web app (24%) · from r/SideProject, r/chrome_extensions, r/vibecoding, r/IMadeThis
Latest
- BLADE — Downloads a public YouTube playlist as MP3 audio or video and packages the finished files into a ZIP.“I built a free, open-source YouTube playlist downloader with a clean web UI”
- OfflineYT — Downloads YouTube videos from selected channels for offline, ad-free viewing.“OfflineYT”
- SNAG — Downloads videos from sites like YouTube, TikTok and X at chosen quality and extracts audio as MP3.“I made SNAG, a free video downloader for Android and Windows”
- AnyAssetBot — Downloads stock assets from pasted links and delivers the files into a Telegram chat.“I built a Telegram bot that delivers premium stock assets in seconds: paste a link, get the file”
- AnySaver — Downloads public videos and photos from social media links without ads, redirects, or watermarks.“I got tired of online video downloaders with 5 fake download buttons, so I built a simple one”
- Prismedia — Plays and manages a personal media library of video, books, audiobooks and comics, optionally connecting to Sonarr, Radarr, LazyLibrarian and Kapowarr for requests and downloads.“Prismedia 3.8: connect existing Sonarr/Radarr libraries and use native playback”
- ExplorerVideoPreview — Shows a scrubbable frame preview of a video when hovering over it in Windows File Explorer.“I made a free tool that previews videos when you hover them in File Explorer (Windows 11)”
- Penumbra — Plays local video files on Android in a streaming-style library with posters, metadata, and resume tracking.“I got tired of my movie folder looking like a spreadsheet, so I built a media player for Android that makes it look like Netflix.”
- clipPlay — Downloads videos or audio from a pasted link to the user's device.“I’m building clipPlay, a video/audio downloader — is the workflow clear enough?”
- Paace — Sets and remembers playback speed per website for videos and audio players in the browser.“I made a free speed controller that remembers your speed per site”
- YouTube to Kindle — Converts a YouTube video into an e-book and sends it to a Kindle with one click.“I built an extension that lets you read any youtube video on your kindle”
- NewTube — Plays YouTube videos in a fast, touch-first client interface.“NewTube – a fast, touch-first YouTube client”
- Turns videos playing in the browser into a cinema-style theatre environment.“Miss the cinema feel on AR glasses? I made a free Chrome extension to bring back the theatre ambience”
- VidLoader — Downloads online videos and converts them into usable files in one step.“I made a small tool for handling online video files”
- HouseOS — Provides a self-hosted home hub for streaming films, music, and emulated games, with configurable profiles and an agent-operable assistant.“I built my dream platform for films, music, games & more — 100% local, opensource and customizable!”
- Vidorac — Downloads public videos from TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit and X with selectable resolution, format and MP3 bitrate.“I built a video downloader because most of the ones I tried felt too limited — looking for honest feedback”
- Watch Later Enhanced — Saves YouTube videos to a local, taggable watch-later queue with drag-and-drop ordering and a floating picture-in-picture mini player.“Watch Later Enhanced 3.0 version is out now! 😺”
- Tunexa — Downloads video and audio from online sources.“I built a tool I needed. Apparently, nobody else did.”
- YouTube to MP3 converter — Converts YouTube videos into MP3 audio files.“Hey guys! I built a simple lightweight app to quickly convert YT videos to MP3 there is no ads,u can support me”
- yt-downloader — Downloads audio or video from a pasted URL via yt-dlp and lets the user edit title and artist metadata before saving.“Simple PyQt5 app for yt-dlp”
Most discussed
- Ventic — Streams torrent video while downloading and tracks watch progress, episodes, and subtitles across desktop, mobile, and TV.“I made Ventic - an app that streams torrents like Netflix, keeps track of what you're watching, and works on a TV remote”
- Streams video rendered as plain text at 360p and 30 FPS so it passes through filters that block video.“I built an unblockable video stream. It renders 360p at 30 FPS using pure text instead of tags.”
- torlink — Searches multiple torrent sites at once from the terminal and downloads selected torrents to disk.“Reached ~178 Stars! Built a Terminal Torrent client that searches every trusted source at once and downloads straight to disk”
- Plexo — Splits a single download across multiple internet connections to speed it up.“I built Plexo — a download manager that combines multiple internet connections for a single download.”
- Arkaiva — Saves, downloads and stores videos through a Telegram bot without storage limits.“How much I earned in 1 year from my SaaS (And what I learned)”
- Downloads videos hosted on Wistia.“Last month, my extension hit 10,000 active users!”
- Reels Scrubber — Adds a seek bar, volume persistence, and playback speed controls to Instagram videos on desktop.“Tired of broken Instagram video controllers? I got fed up and built myself one.”
- stdout-tv — Plays YouTube videos in the terminal by rendering frames as ASCII art streamed to stdout.“CLI YouTube player in Rust that renders videos as ASCII art”
- latte — Downloads video and audio from over 1,000 websites from a macOS menu bar app, with batch links and metadata embedding.“latte: Just Download Anything.”
- WidePlayer — Widens the video player in the X.com feed without switching to fullscreen.“I built a Chrome extension that makes the X.com media player wider without fullscreen”