jely2002/youtube-dl-gui

Open Video Downloader - A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Rust with Tauri and Vue + Typescript.

AppsRust#youtube-dl#youtube-dl-gui#ytdl#cross-platform-gui#tailwind

1.3 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 20, 2026.

About the project

Cross-platform desktop GUI for yt-dlp that lets you download videos, audio, subtitles and metadata from hundreds of sites without using the command line.

Useful for

Download a YouTube video in a chosen resolution and MP4 or MKV format
Extract only the audio track from a video and save it locally
Download an entire playlist with subtitles and metadata in one go

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

2 stars so far today, about 6 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending Rust today: #10, +7 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 9,249
Stars in a day: 6
Forks: 661
Issues and pull requests: 796
Watchers: 81
Language: Rust
License: AGPL-3.0
Latest release: app-v3.2.1 · July 5, 2026
Created: April 2, 2020
Last push: September 13, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 20, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #10, +7 stars

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