RipIt
RipIt is a free, lightweight DVD ripping utility for macOS that converts DVDs to iTunes-compatible MP4 and Apple TV formats for playback on Mac, iPhone and iPad. It was designed for users who wanted to create a digital backup of their DVD collection without complex encoding options or format flexibility. The app offered a straightforward workflow: load a DVD, select the title to rip, and let the app encode to a format ready for iTunes. It was popular among casual users for its simplicity, though it was resource-intensive and lacked advanced features like format conversion, compression controls or GPU acceleration.
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1 suggestionRipIt has been abandoned by its developer, The Little App Factory, since around 2016 (the last version, 1.6.9, was released in June 2016). The official website is no longer active and there is no native Apple Silicon build. The Intel-only binary will stop working entirely when Apple removes Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (September 2028), which is less than two and a half years away. If you rely on RipIt to rip DVDs, you should migrate to an actively maintained alternative that runs natively on Apple Silicon. MacX DVD Ripper Pro is a current native-Intel alternative that handles a wider range of DVD formats and offers faster encoding through GPU acceleration. HandBrake, a free open-source video transcoder, also runs natively on Apple Silicon and can rip DVDs (though it requires additional setup). Both are under active development and will continue to work after Rosetta 2 is removed.
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