VODForge - Local YouTube video and audio downloader
Show HN: VODForge – a free local desktop UI for YouTube video/playlist downloads
VODForge is a free, open-source desktop app for macOS and Windows that turns YouTube videos and playlists into clean MP4 video or production-ready MP3 audio. It offers a focused workflow with quality controls up to 4K, a sequential queue, metadata and cover-art management, and a library that compares source and output files. Built on yt-dlp and FFmpeg, it processes everything locally—no account required, and your downloads stay on your computer. Developer ID signed on macOS and Authenticode signed on Windows, VODForge is a safe, private alternative to converter sites or command-line tools.
Turn YouTube videos and playlists into clean MP4 video or production-ready MP3 audio—with quality, queue, metadata, and cover-art controls instead of a converter site or command line.
- crtasm
For cases where audio quality is important it's best not to add another round of lossy compression by reencoding Youtube's opus/AAC track to MP3.
- threecheese
Tell us about your process and discipline; I see `engineering-quality` in the repo, which seems to be some sort of QA harness. Makes this a bit more interesting than just-another-yt-dlp-ui. Do you follow some similar design process, like speckit?
- ghostly_s
What is CTV? We don't know your industry's jargon.