Native macOS · Menu bar app

Save video & audio from 1,000+ sites.

Swoop lives in your menu bar. Copy a link, press Y, and it's yours — whole playlists, in parallel, as fast as your connection allows.

10 free downloads · no account · one-time price, yours forever · macOS 14+

WORKS WITH 1,000+ SITES, INCLUDING

YouTube TikTok X / Twitter Instagram Facebook Reddit Twitch Vimeo Dailymotion SoundCloud Bandcamp …and hundreds more

Built for speed.

Everything happens on your Mac — no uploads, no accounts, no middleman servers.

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Summon anywhere

Press ⌥⌘Y in any app. Swoop drops down from the menu bar, clipboard link already pasted. Hit return, done.

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Channel backup

Point Swoop at any channel and archive the whole catalog — videos, metadata, thumbnails, descriptions — into one organized folder. Re-runs only fetch what's new. Never lose your library.

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Playlists, parallelized

Paste a playlist and Swoop expands it into every video, downloading several at once — each with its own live progress bar. SponsorBlock can cut the ads on the way in.

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Audio-only mode

One click to mp3, m4a, or opus. Perfect for lectures, mixes, and podcasts you want offline.

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Private & unlisted links

Optionally uses your own browser login to save content you already have access to. Your credentials never leave your Mac.

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Tiny & truly native

Swift, not Electron. A few megabytes, no Dock clutter, no background bloat — it feels like part of macOS.

Three seconds per video.

No tabs, no converter sites, no "please disable your ad blocker."

1

Copy a link

From any of 1,000+ supported sites — one video, a whole playlist, or a pile of links at once.

2

Summon Swoop

⌥⌘Y opens the window with your link ready to go. Pick quality or audio-only.

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It's on your Mac

Saved straight to your Downloads folder at full speed. Reveal in Finder, play, done.

One price. Yours forever.

No subscription. No account. No ads.

Launch pricing
$19 one-time
  • Unlimited downloads, all features
  • Playlists + parallel queue
  • Audio-only (mp3 / m4a / opus)
  • Private & unlisted links
  • Free updates for v1.x
  • 30-day refund, no questions
Buy Swoop — $19

Prefer to try first? Download the free trial — 10 downloads, full features.

Questions, answered.

What can I download with Swoop?

Swoop is a tool for saving video and audio from over a thousand sites — intended for content you own, content that's freely or Creative-Commons licensed, and content you have permission to keep. Your own uploads, your team's footage, open-licensed lectures, your DJ sets: all perfect. Only download content you have the rights to keep.

Is it private?

Completely. Swoop runs 100% on your Mac. Downloads go straight from the source site to your disk — nothing passes through our servers (we don't have download servers). No accounts, no analytics on what you save, no telemetry on your library.

What are the system requirements?

macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, Apple Silicon or Intel. On first run Swoop offers a guided one-time setup of its open-source download engine (yt-dlp via Homebrew) — takes about a minute.

Why isn't Swoop on the App Store?

Apple doesn't allow this category of app. Selling direct keeps Swoop native, fast, and un-sandboxed — and it's why we can offer a real free trial and a one-time price.

What's the refund policy?

30 days, no questions asked. Email support and it's done.

Who makes Swoop?

An independent developer. Swoop wraps the excellent open-source yt-dlp engine in a native Mac interface. Swoop is not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube, TikTok, Meta, X, or any other platform.