Get It For Mac

Downloading videos is a simple task these days, and it can be done either by using web apps or with the help of desktop apps.

The advantage of using a native app is that it will run a lot faster and it does not depend on a third party's web server, and, thus, it will always be available.

Get It is one such app, an app that comes with support for a lot more websites than most if not all online video download services put together.

This is because Get It is designed from the ground up as a user interface for YouTube-DL, a multi-platform and command-line based audio and video downloader.

Being a YouTube-DL GUI, Get It inherits its list of supported video sharing and hosting platforms, which, at the moment, contains 1022 different content hosting websites, with more added on a regular basis.

Installing Get It on your Mac is just a matter of moving it to your Applications folder. Once you launched, it will provide you with a built-in installation guide for its dependencies which can be started by clicking on the yellow package button displayed within the main window if it detects any missing components it needs.

Get It also has a tiny system resource footprint, as it will only require under 80 MB of RAM while downloading content and below 5% of a CPU core.

Moreover, the Get It app enables you to download both video and audio content, and you can customize the type of files and the formats you want it to download from the Audio and Video tabs in the Preferences window.

It is also important to mention that Get It will save your settings automatically and will enable you to restore its default settings which will allow you to download only the audio in MP3 format for all URLs to your Mac's Downloads folder.

You can open Get It's Preferences by clicking on the cog wheel in the main screen. From there you can also change the output destination and maximum file size, as well as set it to also download and embed subtitles.

As a plus, Get It features built-in support for batch downloading videos, from one or multiple sources, and for grabbing entire playlists from multimedia sharing platforms like YouTube.

On the whole, Get It is a must have utility for all Mac users who want to download videos from the Internet using a free and intuitive tool.

Moreover, having Get It in your Applications folder can only help you in the long run if you're downloading multimedia content frequently and using a Terminal-based program such as YouTube-DL for this task is too intimidating.