Pinchflat
Download YouTube content built using yt-dlp.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Dec 2025.
Comparisons in Media Management: Sonarr Cloud alternatives.
At a glance
Pinchflat quick facts
- Health score
- 50/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 5,433
- Last commit
- 11 months ago (Dec 2025)
- Latest release
- v2025.9.26, Sep 2025
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Pinchflat is a self-hosted app for downloading YouTube content built using yt-dlp. It's designed to be lightweight, self-contained, and easy to use. You set up rules for how to download content from YouTube channels or playlists and it'll do the rest, periodically checking for new content. It's perfect for people who want to download content for use in with a media center app (Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi) or for those who want to archive media!"
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Pinchflat scores 50/100, #28 of 30 in Media Management: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v2025.9.26, 1.1 years ago) earns 14.8 of 25, 5,433 stars add 14.9 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 14.8 / 25
v2025.9.26 released 1.1 years ago
- Stars 14.9 / 20
5.4k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 3
- Last 12 months
- 11 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #28 of 30 tools in Media Management by health , between yt-dlp Web UI (#27) and nefarious (#29) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | v2025.9.26 · 1.1 years ago |
| Stars | 5,433 |
| Open issues | 202 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | kieraneglin/pinchflat ↗ |
Pinchflat vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Pinchflat (Media Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MeTube | 97 | 15k | AGPL-3.0 | 3 days ago |
| Radarr | 97 | 15k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Youtarr | 93 | 1.8k | ISC | yesterday |
| youtube-dl-nas | 89 | 201 | MIT | 2 days ago |
| ChannelTube | 61 | 334 | AGPL-3.0 | 3 days ago |
| Pinchflat (this tool) | 50 | 5.4k | AGPL-3.0 | 11 months ago |
Pinchflat: common questions
Is Pinchflat still maintained?
Pinchflat had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 11 months ago; the latest tagged release, v2025.9.26, is from 1.1 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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