v0.15.0 · MIT · 0 · 974 downloads

Free. Ad-free. For humans and AI.

MIT open source, zero ads, no telemetry — and the only video player AI agents can drive natively. Auto-skip YouTube sponsor segments via SponsorBlock, local AI subtitle generation, CLI + MCP first.

Download for Windows Star on GitHub

⚡ Or one-line install

curl -fsSL https://unflick.app/install.sh | bash

irm https://unflick.app/install.ps1 | iex

See all platforms ↓

Free, private, yours.

What we don't do — and why we don't do it.

Always free

MIT-licensed and open source. No premium tier, no trial countdown, no surprise paywall down the road.

No login

Open a file, hit play. unflick never asks for an email, account, or any cloud sign-in.

Zero ads

We don't sell your attention. The player is the entire product — no banners, no pre-roll, no "sponsored" content.

100% local

Library scans, subtitle generation, AI transcription — every feature runs on your machine. Your files never leave.

Three interfaces, one core

Built for humans and AI agents from day one. Whatever the GUI does, the CLI and MCP do too.

Beautiful GUI

Frosted glass UI, PiP and true fullscreen. Chapters, bookmarks, A-B loop, a 10-band equalizer. DVDs, ISOs and Blu-ray, and casting to your TV over DLNA. libmpv under the hood plays every format.

Full CLI

Every feature scriptable. Play, seek, screenshot, clip to GIF, generate subtitles — all from your terminal. JSON output everywhere.

AI-native (MCP)

Built-in MCP server. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor — any AI agent can play, clip, transcribe, and search your library through 101 tools and 3 live resources.

Drop unflick into Claude / Cursor / any MCP client

Add this to your MCP client config and the agent can drive playback, generate subtitles, scan your library — every feature unflick exposes.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "unflick": {
      "command": "unflick",
      "args": ["--mcp"]
    }
  }
}

On Windows, use the full path: "command": "C:\\Users\\<you>\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\unflick\\unflick.exe"

Download unflick

Windows 10 / 11, macOS 11+, and Linux on x86_64 and ARM.

v0.15.0

Windows 10 / 11 · x64

Standard Edition

100 MB

Full player with bundled ffmpeg and yt-dlp for clipping and URL playback.

Download standard .msi (admin install)

Recommended

AI Edition

165 MB

Standard plus an offline Whisper model. Generate subtitles with zero configuration.

Download AI .msi (admin install)

Heads up — The Windows installers aren't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may flash "unrecognized app." Click More info → Run anyway. Source is on GitHub if you want to audit before running.

macOS 11+ · Apple Silicon + Intel

Universal binary

45 MB

Signed and notarized universal .dmg for Apple Silicon and Intel. Carries its own libmpv, so DVDs play and there's nothing else to install.

Download .dmg

Optional: ffmpeg for clip export and seek-bar thumbnails — brew install ffmpeg

Or with Homebrew:

brew install --cask zhitongblog/tap/unflick

Intel Mac users

Yes — same DMG. macOS picks the right slice automatically.

Linux x86_64 · arm64 · X11 / Xwayland

.deb

9 MB

Ubuntu / Debian. sudo apt install ./unflick_*.deb libmpv2

Download .deb · x86_64 arm64 / aarch64

.rpm

9 MB

Fedora / RHEL / openSUSE. sudo dnf install ./unflick-*.rpm mpv-libs

Download .rpm · x86_64 arm64 / aarch64

.AppImage

83 MB

Distro-agnostic. chmod +x and run. Install libmpv2 system-wide first.

Download .AppImage · x86_64 arm64 / aarch64

Wayland sessions (GNOME, KDE Plasma 6, WSLg) auto-fall-back to Xwayland on first launch. Native Wayland subsurface support lands in a follow-up.

Or grab the source on GitHub →

Part of To Be Free

More software that's actually free

unflick is one of the tools on To Be Free — a hand-picked directory of software that's genuinely free to use: no ads, no accounts, no paywall waiting down the road. Find unflick's review there, and the rest of the collection.

Read unflick on To Be Free Browse all free tools →