OmniGet vs Motrix

Motrix downloads links, magnets and torrents through aria2 with 64 connections; OmniGet also finds the file on video and site pages. Draft: torrent and corpus rounds still to run.

Measured September 30, 2026 58.2k stars Latest release v2.4.1 – views Motrix on GitHub

Written by Antonio Leandro, who makes OmniGet. Motrix is described from its own repository and releases.

Loop, the OmniGet mascot, smiles in a wooden workshop and hands a glowing card to a friendly purple-and-white robot shaped like the Motrix app icon, with two small yellow eyes on a black visor, while download arrows and a magnet fall into the robot's tray.

Pros and cons, side by side

This table is filled from our study of Motrix. It is not written yet.

Download speed

Direct file from download.blender.org (372 MB), as installed Lower is better · s
  1. OmniGet 87.4 s
  2. Motrix 131.5 s

Median of timed rounds on 30 Sep 2026, same session as Persepolis, Varia and AriaNg. OmniGet 0.10.1: 87.4 s (83.3 to 99.0 s, 4 rounds; the fifth failed because the app's MCP token changed mid-run). Motrix 1.8.19 with its 64 connections: 131.5 s (78.4 to 144.6 s). The ranges overlap.

What each app can do

OmniGetMotrix
Playlists and channels YesNo
Subtitles YesNo
Audio only YesNo
Choose quality and format YesNo
Private and members-only videos (your login) YesPartly
Browser extension YesNo
Torrents and magnet links YesYes
Direct file links YesYes
Queue and parallel downloads YesYes
Watch channels for new videos YesNo
SponsorBlock, chapters, metadata YesNo
AI agents and MCP YesNo

Who wins what

  • Direct file from download.blender.org (372 MB), as installed

    OmniGet

    OmniGet 87.4 s · Motrix 131.5 s

Download size and packages

Peak memory while downloading the 372 MB file Lower is better · MB
  1. OmniGet 55.8 MB
  2. Motrix 214.3 MB

OmniGet: main process and children, without its WebKit window. Motrix: the Electron app with its window processes and its aria2c.

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The apps in this benchmark

  • 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.

  • Motrix

    License:
    —
    GitHub:
    58.2k stars · v2.4.1

Other Motrix alternatives

Free, open-source apps that do some of what Motrix does.

  • Open-source yt-dlp GUIs compared Every desktop app we track, ordered by GitHub stars, with its license, latest release and who it suits.
  • OmniGet vs ezytdl Electron front end for yt-dlp with advanced options. Compared with OmniGet
  • OmniGet vs Media Downloader Qt/C++ front end for several download engines, including yt-dlp, gallery-dl and aria2c. Compared with OmniGet
  • OmniGet vs SCrawler Windows app that saves media from social sites and user profiles. Compared with OmniGet
  • OmniGet vs Videomass Cross-platform FFmpeg front end for batch conversion with presets; it removed its yt-dlp downloader in version 6.1.12. Compared with OmniGet
  • OmniGet vs Vividl Windows front end for yt-dlp built with WPF. Compared with OmniGet
  • OmniGet vs Hindsight Agent memory system by Vectorize: retain, recall and reflect over a memory bank, as a server with Postgres or embedded in Python. Compared with OmniGet
  • OmniGet vs aria2 Command-line download utility for HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink, with many connections per file. Compared with OmniGet
  • OmniGet vs you-get Command-line downloader written in Python that scrapes media from web pages. Compared with OmniGet
  • OmniGet vs youtube-dl The original command-line video downloader that yt-dlp was forked from. Compared with OmniGet
  • OmniGet vs yt-dlp The command-line audio and video downloader that OmniGet runs on. Compared with OmniGet
  • OmniGet vs Open Video Downloader Cross-platform yt-dlp front end built with Tauri and Vue, with a very small installer. Compared with OmniGet
  • OmniGet vs Parabolic yt-dlp front end with a native interface: WinUI on Windows and GNOME on Linux, published on Flathub. Compared with OmniGet
  • OmniGet vs VidBee Electron app built on yt-dlp that also makes local transcripts, AI summaries and RSS subscriptions. Compared with OmniGet
  • OmniGet vs ytDownloader Electron yt-dlp app with a clip trimmer and a video compressor, on many app stores. Compared with OmniGet
  • aria2 on GitHub Command-line download utility for HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink, with many connections per file.
  • Persepolis on GitHub Download manager written in Python that drives aria2, with scheduling.
  • Varia on GitHub Download manager for regular downloads, torrents and videos.

Method

Run it yourself

Open Motrix 1.8.19 (its aria2 RPC on 127.0.0.1:16800) and the OmniGet app, then: node scripts/bench/speed.mjs --slug omniget-vs-motrix --out src/content/benchmarks/download-managers.data.json --tools omniget-app,motrix --items direct-large --speed-only --rounds 5 --warmup 1; the same with --items torrent; and --success-only for the corpus pass

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