v1.1.2

Automatic browser connection recovery

• Fixed Chrome Store extension showing “App offline”.
• Added automatic loopback fallback when Native Messaging fails.
• Handles missing, forbidden, or failed native helper startup.
• Added automatic connection status refresh in the extension popup.
• Prevents duplicate downloads after a lost connection response.
• Native helper now ignores system proxy settings for local communication.
• Installer rebuilds and bundles the latest native helper automatically.

Fixed

• duplicate downloads for URLs already queued or completed.
• Disabled automatic Chrome download capture by default to reduce system load.
• Added Chrome extension connection status indicator.
• Added a one-click connection check in the extension popup.
• Fixed CMD/console window appearing when ODM starts.
• Updated the Chrome extension to version 1.1.2.
• Improved browser helper and native messaging setup.
• Added setup instructions and packaged extension files.

Installation

Install the ODM desktop installer, then install/update the official Chrome extension. No PowerShell command is required.

v1.1.0

ODM v1.1.0

A faster and easier way to manage video and file downloads.

What’s new

• Choose video quality from available options, including 4K.
• Clear message when the requested quality is unavailable.
• Download complete YouTube playlists from one link.
• Playlist videos appear in an expandable folder with progress counts.
• Choose how many playlist videos download at the same time.
• Playlist videos are saved in an automatic folder.
• Paste multiple links, one per line.
• Download the same video again without overwriting previous files.
• Chrome extension quality picker for supported video websites.
• Improved pause, resume, cancel, retry, and delete controls.
• Improved notifications and connection error messages.
• Delete downloads from ODM only or remove files from your computer too.

Downloads

• Install ODM using the Windows setup file below.
• Add the Chrome extension ZIP through Chrome’s extension page or the Chrome Web Store.

ODM v1.0.1 - Chrome Web Store Integration

ODM v1.0.1 - Official Chrome Web Store Extension

Browser integration

• The official ODM companion extension is now available on the Chrome Web Store.
• No Developer mode, ZIP extraction, or Load unpacked setup is required.
• Added Add Chrome Extension beside Buy me a coffee in the desktop app and another link in About.
• The Windows installer offers to open the official Web Store listing when setup finishes.

Fixes

• Fixed Access to the specified native messaging host is forbidden for the published extension.
• Native Messaging registration and uninstall cleanup now cover both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows registry views.

Installation

Download and run ODM_1.0.1_x64-setup.exe. When setup finishes, choose Yes to open the official extension page, then click Add to Chrome.

V1.0.0

Changelog

v1.0.0 — First Release 🎉

Free, open-source (AGPL-3.0) download manager for Windows. Everything below ships in a single installer — no separate downloads needed.

📥 Downloads

• desktop_1.0.0_x64-setup.exe — the desktop app. One installer, nothing else to install (bundles ffmpeg, yt-dlp, quickjs, and the VC++ runtime automatically).
• odm-extension.zip — browser extension for Chrome/Edge. See installation options (Chrome blocks direct .crx installs outside the Web Store, so "Load unpacked" is the working path until the Web Store listing is approved).

✨ Highlights

Downloading

• Multi-connection chunked downloads with pause/resume, exponential backoff retry, and bandwidth throttling.
• Native HLS/DASH (adaptive streaming) support.
• Video/audio downloads from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and more via a bundled yt-dlp, with cookie-based sign-in for age/region-gated or bot-checked content.
• Live progress, speed, and auto-fetched title/thumbnail while a download is running — not just after it finishes.
• Categories with configurable file-extension rules and per-category save folders.

Interface

• Full UI redesign: sidebar navigation, sortable download table, details panel, right-click context menu (Open, Open with, Move/Rename, Redownload, Resume/Stop, Remove, Properties).
• Delete confirmation with an explicit "also delete from disk" checkbox.
• Opens maximized to whatever screen/resolution it launches on.

Runs like a real background app

• Minimizing or closing the window sends it to the system tray instead of quitting — downloads keep running.
• Auto-starts with Windows, launching straight into the tray (no window flash on boot).
• Checks GitHub Releases on startup and shows a dismissible banner when a newer version is available.

Browser extension

• Auto-captures ordinary browser downloads and hands them to ODM instead of Chrome's own downloader.
• Right-click any link or media → "Download with ODM".
• Detects downloadable video/audio streams on the page you're viewing.

Everything else

• 100% free, open source, AGPL-3.0 — no ads, no telemetry, no data collection of any kind.
• About dialog shows the app version and a link to support the project.

🔒 Privacy

Nothing leaves your device. The extension talks only to your own local ODM app over Native Messaging — see PRIVACY.md.

☕ Support

If ODM is useful to you, consider buying me a coffee — it helps keep free tools like this coming.

🐛 Known limitations

• Resuming a yt-dlp download that needs a video+audio merge doesn't always resume that exact merge cleanly (rare edge case, not blocking).
• Some sites' extractors break upstream in yt-dlp from time to time — use the in-app "Update yt-dlp" button, or wait for an upstream fix if it's very recent.