> I'm curious what is the reason for a GUI for such a simple utility? From the screenshots alone some benefits are quite obvious. Namely the ability to handle

> I'm curious what is the reason for a GUI for such a simple utility? From the screenshots alone some benefits are quite obvious. Namely the ability to handle multiple URLs at once, as also the Download-Manager with it's progress bar. I have a bunch of scripts myself for downloading videos, but interfaces for such things is not really a strength of the command line. I already thought about making some job-manager for myself because of those reasons. So I can totally understand people making a GUI and releasing it. > The command line for this kind of tool seems like the perfect interface. Just copy a URL, paste it, press enter. That's only if you have no other requirements. youtube-dl is a monster of parameters. You can setup any little crap and do many more things than just download a youtube-url. On the screenshot I see some config-buttons and some kind of profile? This quite matches with any mildly complex usecase for this tool. Having a GUI supporting you in setting up what other would do with scripts is beneficial, especially for those not breathing in shell-commands.