Question 1

What is Rippopotamus?

Accepted Answer

Rippopotamus (Rippo) is a free, open-source desktop app that batch-downloads media from links — video, audio, images, thumbnails — and organizes them into editor-ready project folders. It runs entirely on your machine with no accounts or cloud upload.

Question 2

Is Rippopotamus free?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Rippopotamus is free and open source, available for macOS and Windows from GitHub releases.

Question 3

How is Rippopotamus different from yt-dlp?

Accepted Answer

Rippopotamus uses yt-dlp, gallery-dl, aria2c, and ffmpeg under the hood, but adds the creative workflow layer: batch link intake, metadata and thumbnail preview, editor-friendly presets, clean file naming, project folder organization, and retryable failed links — all in a desktop GUI.

Question 4

Does Rippopotamus upload my files anywhere?

Accepted Answer

No. Rippopotamus is local-first: downloads, ledgers, and manifests are plain files on your disk. There are no accounts and no cloud upload.