🎬 Snag Desktop

Grab media from anywhere. Paste a link. Get your video.

A native desktop app to download videos and audio from any platform — without watermarks, at the highest quality.

Looking for the CLI version? → snag-cli

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✨ Features

• 🖥️ Native desktop app — built with Wails (Go + React), runs natively on macOS
• 🌍 Works everywhere — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X (Twitter), Facebook, Reddit, and 1000+ more sites
• 🚫 No watermarks — downloads clean TikTok videos without the watermark
• 🎥 Best quality — grabs the highest resolution video + audio and merges them
• 🎵 Audio extraction — download just the audio as MP3
• 📺 Quality selection — choose between Best, 1080p, 720p, 480p, or 360p
• 🔍 Auto platform detection — detects the platform from the URL automatically
• ⚡ Fast — streams directly from source, no middleman servers

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📸 Preview

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🚀 Installation

Download (macOS Apple Silicon)

1. Go to Releases
2. Download snag-desktop-macos-arm64.zip
3. Unzip and drag snag-desktop.app to your Applications folder
4. Right-click → Open (first time only, to bypass Gatekeeper)

Prerequisites

You need yt-dlp and ffmpeg installed:

brew install yt-dlp ffmpeg

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/Verifieddanny/snag-desktop.git
cd snag-desktop
wails build

The built app will be in build/bin/snag-desktop.app.

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📖 Usage

1. Open Snag from your Applications folder
2. Paste any URL — platform is detected automatically
3. Choose type — Video or Audio Only
4. Select quality — Best, 1080p, 720p, 480p, or 360p
5. Click Download — file saves to ~/Downloads/Snag/

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🌍 Supported Platforms

Platform	Video	Audio	No Watermark
YouTube	✅	✅	✅
TikTok	✅	✅	✅
Instagram	✅	✅	✅
X (Twitter)	✅	✅	✅
Facebook	✅	✅	✅
Reddit	✅	✅	✅
1000+ more	✅	✅	varies

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🏗️ Tech Stack

• Backend — Go
• Frontend — React + TypeScript
• Framework — Wails v2
• Engine — yt-dlp + ffmpeg
• Styling — Custom CSS

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🗺️ Roadmap

• macOS Apple Silicon build
• Auto platform detection
• Quality selection (Best/1080p/720p/480p/360p)
• Audio extraction
• No-watermark TikTok downloads
• Dependency check on startup
• Friendly error messages
• macOS Intel build
• Windows build
• Linux build
• Playlist support
• Download history
• Drag and drop URL

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🤝 Contributing

git clone https://github.com/Verifieddanny/snag-desktop.git
cd snag-desktop
wails dev

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📄 License

MIT License — see LICENSE for details.

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Built by Danny 🚀

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CLI Version · Desktop Version