A free desktop app — built by a solo developer in Brazil — that downloads courses from Udemy, Hotmart, Teachable, Kajabi, Skool, and about ten other platforms. You own the content offline. That part isn't new.
What is new is what happens after the download.
Instead of dropping you with a folder of video files and leaving you to figure it out, OmniGet opens the course inside its own built-in player. You can take timestamped notes (so "14:32 — look this up" actually means something), review with spaced repetition flashcards, track your progress, and set a focus timer. There's also a PDF and e-book reader built in.
There's a small trick that's genuinely clever: press one keyboard shortcut from anywhere on your computer, and whatever link you've copied to your clipboard gets downloaded quietly in the background. You don't even open the app. It just happens.
Sharing files with a colleague? No cloud account, no upload. You get a four-word code, they type it in, done.
A solo developer shipped this two months ago. Nearly 2,400 people starred it on GitHub. That's fast.
If you're paying for courses your team never finishes — or if you travel and lose access mid-flight — this is worth a look.
Open-source — The recipe is public. Anyone can inspect it, improve it, or check that it's not doing anything shady.
Spaced repetition — A learning method where you review things just before you'd forget them. Used by language learners and med students. It actually works.
Clipboard — Whatever you last copied on your computer. Text, a link, anything. It lives there until you copy something else.
Flatpak — A way of packaging apps for Linux computers so they install cleanly, like an .exe on Windows.
You can find it at: https://github.com/tonhowtf/omniget
If your team pays for online training and rarely completes it, it might be worth asking: is the platform making it easy to actually study, or just to buy?