Video DownloadHelper
Easy, smart and no tracking
Welcome to
Video DownloadHelper
Version 10 🙂
Hi 🫶 I hope you're enjoying Video DownloadHelper. Maybe you can help the project :)
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What you need to know:
This update is a significant update: Video DownloadHelper is a browser extension. And because of browsers limitations, it has always relied on a Companion App. In this update, I managed to remove the need for a native application 🙌. The extension is now self-contained and does not require an additional application. This improves security, privacy and makes the extension update process a lot easier.
You should should not see any change in behavior. If anything, the downloads are significantly faster (downloads now take advantage of the browser cache) and are more likely to succeed.
⚠️⚠️⚠️The download folder has changed! Your videos are now downloaded to your browser's download folder. You can change the download folder in your browser settings.⚠️⚠️⚠️
"Download As" shows the save dialog after the download completed: sadly, this is a browser limitation. But, you can easily rename the file before download just by clicking on its name, or click the "pen" button.
Where is the "Convert to" option: converting requires quite a lot of resources (transcoding), and this feature was barely ever used by our users. I decided to not backport this feature from the Companion App into the extension. But the extension supports downloading into MKV, MP4, MP3 and M4A formats, without any quality drop.