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Parabolic

Download web video and audio.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Features described in Wikidata: command-line use.

File formats mentioned: MP3, FLAC, OPUS, WAV, MP4 and WEBM.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “GUI frontend for yt-dlp, providing a graphical user interface for users who prefer a visual interaction rather than using the command-line interface.” — Wikidata, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Parabolic is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

A powerful yt-dlp frontend Supports downloading videos in multiple formats (mp4, webm, mp3, opus, flac, and wav) Run multiple downloads at a time Supports downloading metadata and video subtitles

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Wikidata (platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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