What's new in the app
New features, fixes, and other changes, with the date they shipped.
Paste a link. Skip the terminal.
The first public desktop app — paste a link, pick quality in plain language, and save a video on this computer.
New
- Paste a video or playlist URL and inspect it before you download.
- Pick quality in plain language: 720p, 1080p, 4K, best available, or audio as MP3 or M4A.
- Recipes for Watch later, Best quality, Audio, Lecture, and Archive.
- Playlist picker: select the videos you want, then queue those.
- Captions and extra audio language when the source has them.
- Cookies from a listed browser or a cookies.txt file stay on this computer.
- A download queue with progress, cancel, retry, and reveal in folder.
- First launch installs official yt-dlp and ffmpeg on this computer.
- Settings lists the third-party software the app includes, with the license texts and a link to the full notices.
The desktop app is on the product page.