OmniGet vs GDownloader
OmniGet and GDownloader compared: download speed, what each app can download, logins, formats and size. Under construction.
Written by Antonio Leandro, who makes OmniGet. GDownloader is described from its own repository and releases.
Pros and cons, side by side
This table is filled from our study of GDownloader. It is not written yet.
Download speed
Download speed is being measured: same links, same connection, same computer, several runs each. The results will appear here with the script to run them again.
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The apps in this benchmark
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OmniGet
- License:
- GPL-3.0
- Built with:
- Tauri (Rust + web UI)
- GitHub:
- 14.4k stars · v0.10.1
- Its own extractors, torrents and direct files on top of yt-dlp.
- An MCP server and AI coding agents in the same app.
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GDownloader
- License:
- GPL-3.0
- Built with:
- Java 25 (Swing)
- GitHub:
- 239 stars · v1.8.2
- Clipboard capture: copy a link anywhere and it lands in the queue, filtered by site so random links stay out.
- Engine fallback: when yt-dlp says a URL is unsupported, the next engine tries, down to a scanner that finds media and archive links in the page.
- A persistent queue with priorities, several exact formats of one video, and the upload date set as the file date.
Other GDownloader alternatives
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- Open-source yt-dlp GUIs compared Every desktop app we track, ordered by GitHub stars, with its license, latest release and who it suits.
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