RuForge is a YouTube downloader with a library to watch your videos and a mini player to listen to music.
my friend and i just wanted to watch YouTube videos without ads and offline. i figured i'd just build everything we both wanted in one place rather than piecing together a bunch of different tools.
i don't know if there's better things out there, but what i do know is that RuForge works well for what it is. it's a little niche. it only works on Windows for now. it's not Plex, Jellyfin, or Kodi, though i personally use those for movies. RuForge is built around YouTube and doesn't try to be a general-purpose media manager. i don't plan on supporting anything beyond that right now.
downloads run on yt-dlp. we handle playlists and cookies from your browser. there's a built-in browser you can use for cookies if you'd prefer that instead. subtitles, quality picks, and parallel downloads are all optional and configurable in settings. everything you download goes into both your file system and the library inside the app.
the media player has keyboard controls, playback speed, a subtitle overlay, and chapter support. any video you start will pick back up where you left off when you reopen it. i took reference from Spotify when building it, so that's kind of the vibe you'll get, especially when you shrink it down to the mini player.
the built-in browser is specifically for cookies, but you can also build your download queue directly from it while you're browsing.
Tauri v2, Rust backend, React and TypeScript frontend. Windows only for now. yt-dlp and ffmpeg handle the media side.
version 0.1.7. two of us use it every day and it works well. not 1.0 yet, a few things are still half-wired.
discussions are open if you want to ask something or share how you're using it.
download the latest setup .exe from the Releases page and run it. Windows may show a SmartScreen warning the first time, click "more info" then "run anyway". no additional software required.
clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/UnboundAngel/RuForge.git cd RuForge
install dependencies: npm install
run in development: npm run tauri dev
build for production: npm run tauri build
builds land in src-tauri/target/release/. standalone exe is ruforge.exe, installers are under bundle/nsis/ and bundle/msi/.
Apache-2.0. see LICENSE.