SkyTube VS youtube-dl

Compare SkyTube vs youtube-dl and see what are their differences.

SkyTube

Copylefted libre / open source YouTube player for Android (by ram-on)

youtube-dl

Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites (by animelover1984)
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SkyTube youtube-dl
63 28
2,143 280
1.1% -
8.7 0.0
8 months ago about 1 year ago
Java Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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SkyTube

Posts with mentions or reviews of SkyTube. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-31.

youtube-dl

Posts with mentions or reviews of youtube-dl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-15.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SkyTube and youtube-dl you can also consider the following projects:

NewPipe - A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock functionality.

yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

LibreTube - An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android.

spotify-downloader - Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found).

NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass - A simple browser extension to bypass YouTube's age verification, disable content warnings and watch age restricted videos without having to sign in!

twitch-dl - CLI tool for downloading videos from Twitch.

funimation-downloader-nx - Download videos from Funimation via cli.

udemy-dl - A cross-platform python based utility to download courses from udemy for personal offline use.

ytdl-patched - Possibly missing fixes on youtube-dl. brew install nao20010128nao/my/ytdl-patched [GET https://api.github.com/repositories/287858674: 403 - Repository access blocked]

SongTube-App - Simple & Beautiful App (Tool) made in Flutter to Download Media from YouTube