Downloads,
beautifully native.
NewNet puts the power of yt-dlp in your menu bar. Paste a link, pick a quality, get back to work. No terminal. No clutter.
Works with your favourite sites
Why NewNet
Powerful under the hood.
Effortless on the surface.
Everything you expect from a great Mac app — instant, quiet, and respectful of your machine.
Truly native, truly fast
Built AppKit-first for macOS. Lives in the menu bar, launches instantly, sips battery, and feels at home on Sonoma and Sequoia — light or dark.
✓ Fetching formats… 4K · 1080p · 720p · opus
✓ Downloading… 12.4 MB/s → ~/Downloads
Private by design
No accounts. No cloud. Everything runs locally on your Mac.
trackers, logins, or servers phoning home.
Total control
Pick exact quality, format, subtitles, and destination. Playlists, chapters, and audio-only included.
yt-dlp engine
Full power of the best downloader ever made, with automatic updates. 1000+ sites supported.
Set and forget
Queue links, close the panel, get a notification when everything is ready.
How it works
Three steps. Ten seconds.
No manual to read. If you can copy a link, you already know how to use NewNet.
Copy any link
YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, X, Twitch — NewNet detects links from your clipboard automatically.
Pick quality
4K video, crisp 1080p, or audio-only MP3 / Opus. Add subtitles with one toggle.
Done
Files land exactly where you want them. Get notified, keep creating.
Every format you need
MP4 · MKV · WebM · MP3 · Opus · M4A · SRT / VTT subtitles · Chapters · Thumbnails · Playlists
Your downloads, handled.
Free forever. Open source. Made with care for the Mac.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Yes — completely free and open source. No premium tier, no paywalled formats, no ads. If it saves you time, a GitHub star is plenty.
NewNet is a native frontend for yt-dlp, the community-maintained engine that supports 1000+ sites. NewNet handles updates, quality selection, and progress — yt-dlp does the heavy lifting.
Entirely. There are no accounts and no servers. Links you paste and files you download never leave your Mac.
YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, X, Instagram, Twitch, and over a thousand more via yt-dlp. If yt-dlp supports it, NewNet supports it.
Both. NewNet runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs running macOS 13 Ventura or later.