Early Release · macOS · Latest release

"yt-dlp"
without the terminal.

Ferry is a browser extension + desktop engine that puts a beautiful download UI on top of yt-dlp. Videos, audio, thumbnails — from any yt-dlp supported site. No commands. No config.

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Ferry

Built with Tauri + Rust

Chrome · Brave · Edge

MIT License

No servers. No accounts.

Live progress via WebSocket

ffmpeg bundled

Local-first · Private by design

Built with Tauri + Rust

Chrome · Brave · Edge

MIT License

No servers. No accounts.

Live progress via WebSocket

ffmpeg bundled

Local-first · Private by design

The Problem

yt-dlp is brilliant.
Most people can't use it.

The tool exists. The power is there. The terminal is the wall.

Sketchy download sites

12 popups, suspicious redirects, and a fake download button before you find the real one. Every time.

Paid apps for basics

$9.99/month subscriptions for something that should be free and simple. Worse, most are just wrappers anyway.

yt-dlp, but the terminal

The best downloader ever built lives behind a command line. Ferry brings it to everyone else.

How It Works

Two parts. One click.

Ferry (the extension) + Island (the desktop engine). Ferry sees the page. Island does the work.

STEP 01

🌐

Visit any supported page

Ferry detects the video and injects its button directly into the page UI. It belongs there.

STEP 02

🎛

Choose format & quality

Video, audio, or thumbnail. Pick your quality preset. Optionally set a clip range.

STEP 03

⚡

Island downloads locally

The job goes to Island running on your Mac. yt-dlp + ffmpeg run locally. File saved to your Downloads folder.

STEP 04

✅

Live progress. Then done.

Track downloads live in the extension, then click "Reveal in Finder" once the file is ready.

Features

Everything yt-dlp can do.
Nothing you have to type.

🎬

Video downloads

360p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p, and 4K presets. Clean format list — no raw codec dump to parse.

🎵

Audio extraction

Top 3 audio quality options, pulled directly by yt-dlp. No re-encoding, no quality loss.

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Thumbnail download

Save the highest resolution thumbnail available. Useful for creators, archivists, and researchers.

✂️

Clip range

Set a start and end time directly in the browser. Island uses ffmpeg to cut precisely — no full download needed.

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Live progress

WebSocket connection from Island to Ferry. See real-time speed, percentage, and ETA as it downloads.

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Completely local

No cloud. No servers. No account. Island runs on 127.0.0.1 — your data never leaves your machine.

1000+

yt-dlp supported sites

servers in the stack

video quality presets

MIT

open source license

Get Started

Up in 3 steps.

macOS early release. Works on Chrome, Brave, and Edge.

Download & launch Island

Download Island-macOS-app.zip from GitHub Releases. Unzip and open Island — it runs quietly in your menu bar.

⬇ Island for macOS

Download & load the Ferry extension

Download ferry-extension.zip from GitHub Releases, unzip it, then open chrome://extensions in Chrome, Brave, or Edge. Enable Developer Mode (top-right toggle), click "Load unpacked", and select the unzipped folder.

⬇ ferry-extension.zip released alongside Island — no Chrome Web Store needed

Go to any supported page

Open any site yt-dlp supports. The Ferry button appears in the page UI. Click it, pick your format, and download.

macOS Gatekeeper note: Builds are not notarized yet. If macOS blocks Island on first open, right-click the app → Open, or run xattr -cr /Applications/Island.app in Terminal. We're working on notarization for v2.

Try it today.
It's free. Forever.

Download Island, load the extension, and see what yt-dlp feels like when it just works.

⬇ Download for macOS View source on GitHub

macOS — Available now

Windows — Beta

Linux — Beta

"yt-dlp"without the terminal.

yt-dlp is brilliant.Most people can't use it.