diff --git a/app/CMakeLists.txt b/app/CMakeLists.txt
index 81552e0..1e94ed9 100644
--- a/app/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/app/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ add_subdirectory(examples)
 
 # Build additional OpenBR utilities
 if(NOT ${BR_EMBEDDED})
-  add_subdirectory(br-download)
   add_subdirectory(br-crawl)
   add_subdirectory(br-gui)
   add_subdirectory(br-search)
diff --git a/app/br-download/CMakeLists.txt b/app/br-download/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 5cf6e73..0000000
--- a/app/br-download/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-add_executable(br-download br-download.cpp ${BR_RESOURCES})
-target_link_libraries(br-download openbr ${BR_THIRDPARTY_LIBS})
-qt5_use_modules(br-download ${QT_DEPENDENCIES})
-install(TARGETS br-download RUNTIME DESTINATION bin)
diff --git a/app/br-download/br-download.cpp b/app/br-download/br-download.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 6fd6e03..0000000
--- a/app/br-download/br-download.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,130 +0,0 @@
-/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
- * Copyright 2014 Noblis                                                     *
- *                                                                           *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");           *
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.          *
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at                                   *
- *                                                                           *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0                            *
- *                                                                           *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software       *
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,         *
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.  *
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and       *
- * limitations under the License.                                            *
- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
-
-#include <QtCore>
-#include <QtNetwork>
-#include <opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp>
-#include <cstdio>
-#include <cstring>
-#include <string>
-#include <openbr/universal_template.h>
-
-using namespace cv;
-using namespace std;
-
-static void help()
-{
-    printf("br-download [URL] [args]\n"
-           "========================\n"
-           "* __stdin__  - URLs/JSON\n"
-           "* __stdout__ - Templates (raw data)\n"
-           "\n"
-           "_br-download_ retrieves and verifies the contents of an image URL.\n"
-           "If no URL is provided, download reads newline-separated image URLs from _stdin_.\n"
-           "Download writes templates containing the contents of the URL to _stdout_.\n"
-           "\n"
-           "Download is expected to filter out URLs that are not valid images.\n"
-           "Download may do this by checking the file header or decoding the file.\n"
-           "\n"
-           "Optional Arguments\n"
-           "------------------\n"
-           "* -help - Print usage information.\n"
-           "* -json - Input JSON instead of URLs.\n"
-           "* -permissive - Do not attempt to verify the contents of an image URL (verify otherwise).\n");
-}
-
-static bool json = false;
-static bool permissive = false;
-static bool url_provided = false;
-
-static void process(QString url, const QByteArray &metadata, QNetworkAccessManager &nam)
-{
-    url = url.simplified();
-    if (url.isEmpty())
-        return;
-
-    if (url.startsWith("file://"))
-        url = url.mid(7);
-
-    QIODevice *device = NULL;
-    if (QFileInfo(url).exists()) {
-        device = new QFile(url);
-        device->open(QIODevice::ReadOnly);
-    } else {
-        QNetworkReply *reply = nam.get(QNetworkRequest(url));
-        while (!reply->isFinished())
-            QCoreApplication::processEvents();
-
-        if (reply->error() != QNetworkReply::NoError) {
-            qDebug() << reply->errorString() << url;
-            reply->deleteLater();
-        } else {
-            device = reply;
-        }
-    }
-
-    if (!device)
-        return;
-
-    const QByteArray data = device->readAll();
-    delete device;
-    device = NULL;
-
-    if (!permissive && imdecode(Mat(1, data.size(), CV_8UC1, (void*)data.data()), IMREAD_ANYDEPTH | IMREAD_ANYCOLOR).empty())
-        return;
-
-    const QByteArray hash = QCryptographicHash::hash(data, QCryptographicHash::Md5);
-    br_append_utemplate_contents(stdout, reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char*>(hash.data()), reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char*>(hash.data()), 3, data.size(), reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char*>(data.data()));
-
-    if (!metadata.isEmpty()) {
-        const QByteArray metadataHash = QCryptographicHash::hash(metadata, QCryptographicHash::Md5);
-        br_append_utemplate_contents(stdout, reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char*>(hash.data()), reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char*>(metadataHash.data()), 2, metadata.size() + 1 /* include null terminator */, reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char*>(metadata.data()));
-    }
-}
-
-int main(int argc, char *argv[])
-{
-    QCoreApplication application(argc, argv);
-    QNetworkAccessManager nam;
-
-    for (int i=1; i<argc; i++) {
-        if      (!strcmp(argv[i], "-help"      )) { help(); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); }
-        else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-json"      )) json = true;
-        else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-permissive")) permissive = true;
-        else                                      { url_provided = true; process(argv[i], QByteArray(), nam); }
-    }
-
-    if (!url_provided) {
-        QFile file;
-        file.open(stdin, QFile::ReadOnly);
-        while (!file.atEnd()) {
-            const QByteArray line = file.readLine().simplified();
-            if (line.isEmpty())
-                continue;
-
-            QJsonParseError error;
-            process(json ? QJsonDocument::fromJson(line, &error).object().value("URL").toString()
-                         : QString::fromLatin1(line),
-                    json ? line : QByteArray(),
-                    nam);
-
-            if (json && (error.error != QJsonParseError::NoError))
-                qDebug() << error.errorString();
-        }
-    }
-
-    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
-}