A brand-new logo. We always wanted to hide a little "play" button in the negative space between our three colored disks. This release, we finally pulled it off. Same Download Helper you trust, fresh face. Hope you like it :)
Get videos in the language you actually want. A new settings section lets you pick your preferred audio track and subtitle languages. On sites that offer multi-lingual media, you get the right version the first time.
More streaming sites, smoother captures. We\'ve reworked our streaming engine to handle more live and streaming websites, more reliably. If a site gave you trouble before, give it another shot.
v10.1
January 2026
You can now set a dedicated download directory for Video Download Helper media (in settings), but also per website (via smartnaming).
v10.0
December 2026
This update is a significant update: Video Download Helper 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.>/li>
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