Downie lets you easily download videos from thousands of different sites. Just copy-paste the link of a video you find on YouTube, or Vimeo – or any number of video hosting sites – to Downie, and itāll download the video. It’s that easy.
Downie and Transloader
Use Transloader in combination with Downie, and you can download videos you come across on your iPhones and iPads on a Mac remotely. Set up a Link Action for YouTube links, and Transloader on Mac will forward those to Downie, which will download them right away.
Setting up a Link Action in Transloader
In Transloaderās preferences, select Actions and add a Link Action. Configure it to launch Downie for links that point to youtube.com:
Now, anytime you assign your Mac a YouTube link with Transloader, the Mac app will forward it to Downie for download:
Quick Tip
To avoid Downie potentially asking for user input while you’re away, open its preferences, select Advanced and select Run in automated mode.
And thatās it!
Get Downie
You can get Downie here (a free trial is available).
Get Transloader
Get Transloader for Mac, iPhone and iPad here (a free trial is available).
For more tips on getting the most out of Transloader, check out the Usage Tips page.
Today, Yoink for iPad and iPhone is 3 years old š„³. Time surely flies when you haveā¦ bugs to fix.
It certainly doesnāt feel like three years. It feels like only yesterday, to be honest. On the other hand, the release process, yes, that felt like it took three years, because I was eager to release alongside iOS 11 (which, due to its drag and drop capabilities, made Yoink for iOS possible in the first place), but there were some serious delays with App Review, who rejected the app multiple times because of its keyboard extension, and later, its File Provider (while other, similar keyboard/FP extensions were apparently perfectly fine and allowed on the App Store. This is my single biggest gripe with App Review – the inconsistencies in rejections. Itās obvious why these things happen, and itās understandable, but itās frustrating nonetheless).
But all thatās in the past. Yoink for iOS has been out there for three years now, and it has been doing great – thanks to all of you who use it, leave ratings, reviews or send feedback. Itās been featured on the App Store on numerous occasions – here are a few examples:
So thank you all for three amazing years. Letās hope for many, many more š¤
P.S.: Keep an eye out on my social channels (twitter | facebook | linkedin), as Iāll be posting a few promo codes there!
For users of macOS Mojave, I also offer an app bundle (the Eternal Storms Software Productivity Bundle), which includes Yoink for Mac, ScreenFloat for Mac and Transloader for Mac, which offers an additional ~11% off on the apps: Eternal Storms Software Productivity Bundle (macOS Mojave): $17.99 -> $14.99 (~16% off its previous discount) Mac App Store
