Split into threads, at full speed
Large files download in parallel segments, resume where they stopped and retry on their own. You can watch every segment fill in.
Cross-platform · Multi-threaded · Video downloads
Download anything. Eight arms at once.
TakoDown is an all-in-one desktop downloader. Files, torrents and magnet links, video sites and streams, all in one tidy app.
Version 0.1.0 · macOS · Windows · Linux
- HTTP / HTTPS
- BitTorrent & magnet
- Video sites
- HLS / DASH
- FTP / SFTP
Features
Fast where it counts. Calm everywhere else.
Paste a link, pick the quality
YouTube, Bilibili and over a thousand other video sites, with yt-dlp built in. Add subtitles, or keep just the audio as MP3.
Paste text, get every link
Links pulled from chats or web pages, grouped by how they download and deduplicated. Patterns like img[1-3].jpg expand too.
Right in the menu bar
Click the menu bar icon to see speed and progress without opening the main window.
Browser extension
Click download in the browser. TakoDown takes it.
With the extension, browser downloads go straight to TakoDown. Files behind a sign-in work too: cookies travel with the download.
- Works in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, Arc and more
- Right-click a link or a video page to send it to TakoDown
- Choose which file types and sizes to take over; Alt-click to use the browser
CLI & AI
Made for terminals and AI tools too
TakoDown ships with the tako command and an MCP server, so Claude Code, Cursor and Codex can download files through it and follow their progress.
- Claude Code
- Cursor
- Codex
# add a download and wait for it
$ tako add "https://example.com/dataset.zip" --wait
# list downloads
$ tako ls
# let Claude Code use TakoDown over MCP
$ tako mcp install --client claude-code
Start downloading
On macOS, Windows and Linux. Multi-threaded, with video sites built in.