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ClipYank: I got tired of complicated video downloaders so I built a $2 Mac app

Every few weeks I need to save a video from somewhere. Not regularly enough to justify a subscription tool, but often enough that the friction of browser extensions and command-line tools got annoying.

So I built ClipYank. It's a Mac app, costs $2, does one thing: you paste a URL and it downloads the video.

No account. No subscription. No browser extension to keep updated. Just paste and download.

It handles the usual sources -- YouTube, Twitter/X, Vimeo, most embed players. I use it a couple times a month and it's reliably fast.

If you're on Mac and you occasionally need to save a video without setting up a whole workflow around it, it might be worth $2: https://www.clipyank.xyz

Curious if anyone's found other lightweight tools in this space that actually stay working long-term.

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