Publisher: The Little App Factory

Platform: Mac OS X 10.6+

Size: 6.9 MB

Price: $25

This is the DVD ripper that I use day to day. Really simple to use: put a DVD in then click the Rip button. There are no settings to fiddle around with. RipIt gets your disc title from the Internet and it's usually correct or you can type in the name. Ripping takes about half an hour.

It rips to a .dvdmedia structure. Double click to launch DVD Player and play it like a normal DVD. You can also use Handbrake and it treats the .dvdmedia like a normal DVD. So RipIt is nice to preserve DVD contents (not DVD-ROM extras) at full format (.dvdmedia file is as big as the DVD).

You can also Compress which is like Handbrake. It creates mp4 files of a set quality (change in preferences with several choices to match target player like an iPhone or Android device) and you can choose titles to extract. I've never used Compress since I just use Handbrake if I want to convert a DVD title/chapter to m4v for iTunes.

I bought RipIt for $15 promotional. At that price it's worth it. For $25 it seems kind of pricey. You can use MacTheRipper (though it's a PPC application and way no longer updated) or Handbrake (which converts DVDs so you lose quality but get a much smaller file) to do much the same thing.

I nice little hassle-free program that does one thing well.