Downie
Downie is a native macOS video downloader that saves online videos and audio from many websites for offline viewing or conversion.
What is Downie?
Downie is a macOS utility for downloading videos from websites and saving them locally on your Mac. It is designed for people who want an easy way to keep online video for offline viewing, extract audio from video sources, or work with media files in a desktop workflow. Downie supports drag and drop, pasting links directly into the app, and browser extensions that can send pages or links to the downloader. It also offers quality selection, playlist support, subtitles on supported sites, and a User-Guided Extraction feature for pages that need manual help detecting media. Published by Charlie Monroe Software, s.r.o., Downie is a native Mac app rather than a web service, so it fits naturally into local media and file-based workflows.
Key features
- Download videos from many supported websites by pasting or dragging a link into the app
- Send links directly from Safari, Chrome, or Firefox with browser extensions
- Choose available video quality settings for supported downloads
- Extract audio from video sources when you only need the soundtrack
- Download playlists from supported services
- Use User-Guided Extraction to detect media on more complex pages
- Save subtitles when they are available from supported sites
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Downie is legitimate media-downloading software for macOS. It normally needs network access to retrieve media from websites you choose, and its browser extensions can pass page links into the app for convenience. That behavior is consistent with its purpose. Use it only with content you have permission to save, and review any browser extension permissions so you understand what sites it can interact with.
Recommendation: Keep Downie if you use it to save videos or extract audio on your Mac. Remove it if you no longer need that workflow; doing so will mainly affect your ability to download media and use its browser-to-app integration.
Common paths
/Applications/Downie.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.charliemonroe.Downie-setapp
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/com.charliemonroe.Downie-setapp
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.charliemonroe.Downie-setapp.plist
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