[6] ClipGrab officially supports the download from a handful of video websites which include YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, and Facebook.

[3][4][7] Software review site softoxi.com states that "[ClipGrab] has a beautifully designed graphical user interface" and "stands out immediately for its look, feel and performance"[8] ClipGrab is published as free software under the GPL-3.0-or-later license[9] Unusually for an open source project, file checksums, code repositories, developer documentation, or online issue trackers are not publicly available.

The software's website elicits donations from end users, making it a type of donationware.

[2][10] ClipGrab was originally developed in the proprietary programming language PureBasic,[11] and could only download one video at a time.

[13][14] Articles on ClipGrab from 2018 onwards are more critical, and classify the software as malware, rather than as a helpful consumer product, as in reviews from 2011 to 2015.