Save videos from YouTube, TikTok, X and around a thousand other sites straight to your Android phone. No account, no ads, no server: the download happens on the device and the file never leaves it.
SNAG bundles a real yt-dlp and a real FFmpeg inside the APK, driven by a small local web UI. Because they are the genuine tools rather than a reimplementation, it handles HD stream merging, MP3 extraction and every site yt-dlp supports.
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| Paste a link | Pick a quality | Download | Saved on the phone |
Download the APK from Releases and open it on your phone. Android will ask you to allow installs from this source.
To check a download is genuine:
apksigner verify --print-certs app-release.apkSigner #1 certificate SHA-256: 2039afdc2d7f034f90e948aa76bd50988dccd618cf31d1200692961c82258d11
Requirements: Android 7.0 (API 24) or later, arm64-v8a only. That covers essentially every phone sold in the last decade, but excludes 32-bit devices, emulators and ChromeOS.
It cannot be. YouTube's Developer Policies forbid apps that let people download videos for offline play outside YouTube Premium, and Google Play separately bars apps that induce copyright infringement. Every yt-dlp based Android app is distributed outside Play for the same reason.
Paste a link and pick a quality, or share a link to SNAG directly from YouTube, TikTok or X and the download starts on its own.
Files land in Android/data/com.snag.app/files/SNAG/. Android 11 and later hide
that folder from the Files app, so use the ⇪ button beside each download to
send a video to your gallery or another app. That goes through a FileProvider
declared in res/xml/file_paths.xml.
Keep SNAG on screen while a download runs. Android cuts network access to
backgrounded apps, which surfaces as Failed to resolve DNS errors from yt-dlp.
The app holds the screen awake to reduce the chance of that.
Cookies from a logged-in browser are not reachable from inside an APK, so private
or age-restricted videos need a cookies.txt file, which you can point at under
Options.
snag.py is the same program the app runs, and it works on its own.
Windows: download the exe (about 100 MB) from Releases and run it. Python, yt-dlp and FFmpeg are all inside it, so nothing has to be installed and HD merging and MP3 extraction work out of the box. It opens the same web UI at http://localhost:8765 and sits in the system tray while it runs. Right-click the tray icon to reopen it, open or change the download folder, or quit.
There is also a browser extension in extension/, which adds a SNAG button to
YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram, Vimeo, Twitch, SoundCloud and Reddit. Load it with
Developer mode, Load unpacked, in chrome://extensions. It talks only to
127.0.0.1:8765 and only on those sites.
Windows SmartScreen may warn the first time, because the exe is not signed with a paid certificate. Choose More info, then Run anyway, or check the SHA-256 on the release first.
Anywhere else: Python 3.8 or newer and pip install yt-dlp are all it needs.
python snag.pyFFmpeg is needed for MP3 extraction and HD stream merging. Install it with
winget install ffmpeg, brew install ffmpeg or apt install ffmpeg. The exe
and the APK both carry their own copy, so this only applies when running the
script directly.
It also works without the UI:
python snag.py "https://www.tiktok.com/@user/video/123" -q 720
python snag.py "<url>" -q mp3 -o ~/Music
python snag.py "<url>" --cookies-from-browser chromeUnlike the APK, the desktop version can read cookies straight from your browser, so private and age-restricted videos work without exporting anything.
To build the exe yourself: pip install pyinstaller, then
python tools/build_exe.py. It writes dist/SNAG.exe.
GNU General Public License v3.0, see LICENSE, with an additional permission allowing the proprietary Google ad SDKs to be linked in (LICENSE-EXCEPTION.md). The bundled FFmpeg is itself GPLv3, and THIRD_PARTY.md covers every third-party component and its licence.