Media Downloader

Media Downloader 5.6.6

This project is a Qt/C++ based GUI frontend to CLI multiple CLI-based tools that deal with downloading online media.

  • By Francis Banyikwa
  • Open Source
  • Updated Sep 9, 2026
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About Media Downloader

Media Downloader is a Qt/C++ front end to yt-dlp, youtube-dl, gallery-dl, lux, you-get, svtplay-dl, aria2c, wget and safari books.

What's new in 5.6.6

The signing key can be retrieved with below command:

gpg --recv-keys 0x6855E493B5B2DF96E319BB6D16E2E1ACC6F51242

Note on Windows builds:

  • MediaDownloaderQt6 builds for Windows are 64 bit/Qt6 and have
  • minimum requirement of windows 10, version 1607.
  • MediaDownloaderQt5 builds for Windows are 32 bit/Qt5 and have
  • minimum requirement of windows 7.

[ALL]

  • Add ability to save and view download history.
  • Fix a breaking change in how to call deno to get its version.

Full release notes »

Technical details

PublisherFrancis Banyikwa
Version5.6.6
Release date2026-09-09
LicenseGPL-2.0
Installer typeinno
Architecturex86
Package IDFrancisBanyikwa.MediaDownloader

Links & install command

Install Media Downloader from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=FrancisBanyikwa.MediaDownloader -e

downloadmediayoutube-dl

Older versions

  • 5.6.5
  • 5.6.4
  • 5.6.3
  • 5.6.2
  • 5.6.1
  • 5.6.0
  • 5.5.2
  • 5.5.1
  • 5.5.0

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