YT Downloader v1.0.0
YT Downloader v1.0.0
A fast, offline desktop app for grabbing video and audio from YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, and 1000+ other sites. No accounts, no cloud, no ads.
⬇️ Download & install
- Download
YT.Downloader_x64-setup.exefrom Assets below. - Run it. Windows SmartScreen may warn (the build is unsigned) → More info → Run anyway.
- Launch the app.
yt-dlp+ffmpegdownload themselves on first run — nothing else to set up.
Requirements: Windows 10/11 (64-bit). ~10 MB installer; first launch fetches the downloader tools (~50 MB).
✨ Highlights
| 🎥 Video | up to 1080p, or whatever the site offers |
| 🎵 Audio | one-click MP3 extraction |
| 📃 Playlists | fetch, cherry-pick, queue the whole thing |
| ⚡ Queue | 3 downloads at once, live speed + ETA |
| ⏯️ Control | pause / resume / cancel that truly kills the process |
| 🕘 History | remembers what you grabbed |
| 💬 Subtitles | burned into the MP4 or saved as .srt |
⚠️ Known quirks
- Instagram / X / private Vimeo — log in via Chrome first; the app borrows your cookies.
- Long videos pause on a purple bar — that's ffmpeg merging, not a freeze. Let it finish.
🔒 Open source · built with Tauri 2 + Rust + React. Tip: click Generate release notes in the draft to append the full commit changelog.