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Best alternatives to GRIP! — download photos, videos and music from popular sites (2026)

10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to GRIP!, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.

GRIP! — download photos, videos and music from popular sites today

≈4K users4.6★ from 55 ratingsUpdated 7 days ago45 permissions

GRIP! alternatives, compared

  1. 1

    AIX Downloader(Picture/Video/Music)

    Download online videos, music, mp3, images etc from websites.

    ≈300K users4.2★ from 175 ratingsUpdated 11 months ago13 permissions
    • About 75× more users than GRIP!
    • Rated 0.4 stars lower
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (13 vs 45)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
  2. 2

    Video Downloader Web

    Download videos from popular websites in different resolutions and watch it later with video downloader. One click to save video.

    ≈50K users1.7★ from 604 ratingsUpdated 21 months ago4 permissions
    • About 13× more users than GRIP!
    • Rated 2.9 stars lower
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 45)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
  3. 3

    Video Downloader Pro - Save Videos from Any Website

    Download videos from websites in multiple resolutions. Detect videos on any page and save them with one click. YouTube excluded.

    ≈4K users3.6★ from 30 ratingsUpdated 6 days ago6 permissions
    • A similar number of users to GRIP!
    • Rated 1.0 stars lower
    • Asks for fewer permissions (6 vs 45)
    • Listed under Tools
  4. 4

    VideoPlus - Free Video Downloader

    One click to download any video or any audio from any website.

    ≈100K users4.2★ from 691 ratingsUpdated 2 days ago12 permissions
    • About 25× more users than GRIP!
    • Rated 0.4 stars lower
    • Asks for fewer permissions (12 vs 45)
    • Listed under Tools
  5. 5

    X Video Downloader

    Download videos from X with one click

    ≈7K users3.9★ from 11 ratingsUpdated 5 weeks ago9 permissions
    • About 1.8× more users than GRIP!
    • Asks for fewer permissions (9 vs 45)
    • Listed under Tools
  6. 6

    Threads Photo & Video Downloader

    Download photos and videos from Meta Threads profiles

    394 users3.7★ from 3 ratingsUpdated 15 months ago4 permissions
    • About 10× fewer users than GRIP!
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 45)
    • Listed under Social Networking
  7. 7

    VidHelper - Video Download Helper

    Download any video or audio from any website with just one click.

    ≈50K users3.1★ from 121 ratingsUpdated 3 days ago12 permissions
    • About 13× more users than GRIP!
    • Rated 1.5 stars lower
    • Asks for fewer permissions (12 vs 45)
    • Listed under Accessibility
  8. 8

    Download rutube video

    Download videos from rutube with one click.

    ≈10K users4.5★ from 174 ratingsUpdated 4 months ago15 permissions
    • About 2.5× more users than GRIP!
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (15 vs 45)
    • Listed under Tools
  9. 9

    Vidego - Universal Video Downloader

    Download videos in one click.

    ≈10K users4.0★ from 4 ratingsUpdated 7 days ago6 permissions
    • About 2.5× more users than GRIP!
    • Asks for fewer permissions (6 vs 45)
    • Listed under Entertainment
  10. 10

    video downloader - CocoCut

    Best video downloader Chrome extension, this video downloader for Chrome can download video,music free,safe in one click.

    ≈900K users4.8★ from 11.3K ratingsUpdated in the last day11 permissions
    • About 225× more users than GRIP!
    • Rated 0.2 stars higher
    • Asks for fewer permissions (11 vs 45)
    • Listed under Tools

GRIP! alternatives: questions

What is the best alternative to GRIP!?

By users, the most popular alternative is video downloader - CocoCut with ≈900K users and a 4.8-star rating. The closest match by what it does is AIX Downloader(Picture/Video/Music).

Which GRIP! alternative has the best rating?

video downloader - CocoCut has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.8 out of 5 from 11.3K ratings.

Is there a GRIP! alternative that asks for fewer permissions?

Video Downloader Web asks for 4 permissions, against 45 for GRIP!.

How many alternatives to GRIP! are there?

We list 10 close alternatives to GRIP! on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.

Users and ratings are the figures shown on the Chrome Web Store, re-checked continuously. Alternatives are matched on name, description, category and topic. Browse best-of lists by niche.