Hello everyone,
Some of you may already know me from TTAccessible and DSMAccess. I develop mostly for the Mac, and that is exactly where these two come from: on macOS I use Downie and Permute every day, and on Windows nothing equivalent existed. So I wrote them. I am blind, and I use both myself with NVDA.
Both are free, with no ads and no tracking, install without administrator rights, and are available in English and French.
DownAccess — the Downie of Windows
DownAccess downloads video and audio from YouTube, SoundCloud, Dailymotion, Twitch, Vimeo and thousands of other sites.
- Paste an address, or search for media from inside the app.
- Choose your format: automatic, MP4, MP3, M4A, or pick manually from every format the site offers.
- Playlists are detected automatically and you tick the episodes you want.
- Subtitles, alternative audio tracks and audio description where the site provides them.
- A download queue with pause, resume, retry and reordering.
- Guided sign-in for sites that need an account, plus guided extraction with a built-in browser for stubborn pages.
- ffmpeg is bundled — nothing else to install.
DRM-protected services such as Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video cannot be downloaded. No application can do that.
Accessible Media Converter — the Permute of Windows
- Audio: MP3, AAC, M4B, WAV, FLAC, ALAC, OGG, WMA.
- Video: MP4 and MKV, or extract the audio from a video.
- Images: JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF and BMP, with resizing.
- Batch conversion of a whole folder, several files at once.
- A full metadata editor, cover art included.
- M4B audiobooks: merge several files into one book, one chapter per file.
- Cue sheets: split a single album file into properly named and tagged tracks.
- Encoding presets to save, re-apply, export and share.
- A track manager to choose which audio tracks, audio descriptions and subtitles are kept.
The two work together the way Downie hands a file to Permute: "Convert with Accessible Media Converter" sits in the Explorer context menu, and DownAccess can pass a file straight over once a download finishes.
Where to get them
Direct downloads, always the newest version:
If you would rather read what changed first:
Both applications check for their own updates and offer to install them for you. Both also include a built-in form to report a problem or send a suggestion, and I read every one of them.
Thank you for reading.