Changelog

Version 1.8.3

v1.8.0

✨ CHANGELOG

  • New UI for Smart Organize
  • Adjusted Rename category
  • Added side player
  • Added Category Navigation
  • Other minor UI adjustments

🛠️ FIXED

  • Adjusted download name length
  • Added hover effects to download and activity logs for dark mode
  • Adjusted max character length for categories

    Note: New users with no prior usage of Downlodr might encounter a problem on downloading videos while using this experimental version. We recommend using the stable version while we’re working on a fix for the experimental version.

v1.8.0

🌟 MAIN FEATURE

  • Smart Organize
    • will auto-categorize videos
    • Users can delete categories
    • Users can manually move videos around categories
    • Users can remove videos from the categorized selection into the uncategorized section
    • Users can manually create new categories

✨ CHANGELOG

  • Added Smart organize
  • Minor UI adjustment
  • Updated YT-DLP version
  • Updated FFMPEG to use FFMPEG 8 version
  • Adjusted Transcription download flow

🛠️ FIXED

  • Adjusted download name length
  • Added hover effects to download and activity logs for dark mode
  • Adjusted max character length for categories

 

v1.7.9

✨ CHANGELOG

  • Adjusted max character limit for file name
  • Adjusted max character limit for rename
  • Adjusted hover effects for dark mode in activity and download logs
  • Adjusted download table contents
  • Minor UI adjustments

v1.7.9

✨ CHANGELOG

  • Adjusted installation process to auto select ”for current user”” only
  • Adjusted History selection counter
  • Minor UI adjustments
  • Adjusted subtitle downloads

🧩 PLUGIN

  • Adjusted naming convention for formatted downloads

✨ CHANGELOG

  • Adjusted installation process to auto select ”for current user”” only
  • Adjusted History selection counter
  • Minor UI adjustments

 

🧩 FORMAT CONVERTER PLUGIN

  • Adjusted naming convention for formatted downloads

v1.7.7

✨ CHANGED

  • found fix for javascript ⦁ Updated YT-DLP to latest release
  • Updated data sent to plugin to include OS type and OS separator
  • App updates can be toggled on and off in settings
  • Adjusted status icons to be more centered
  • Minor UI adjustments and bugfixes

➕ ADDED

  • Selection counter to playlist, tags, categories, download and history
  • Telemetry error logging
  • IndexedDB migration
  • Telemetry consent modal and privacy agreement

🐞 FIXED

  • Vimeo download bug
  • Navigation toggle overlay
  • Remove logic for already removed folder downloads
  • Navigation bar collapse logic
  • Toast timeout logic
  • New updater bug
  • Selected downloads behavior
  • Unaligned columns bug
  • Adjusted progress bar color indicator
  • Fixed propagation for share button
  • Adjusted gap size of navigation components
  • Found fix for JavaScript error and other download errors
  • Other minor UI adjustments

📦 PLUGINS

  • Updated metadata plugin to be Mac and Linux compatible
  • Updated CC to Markdown plugin to be Mac and Linux compatibl
  • Fixed pathing bug for metadata exporter
  • Fixed audio conversion for format converter
  • Added GitHub Actions for stable builds

v1.7.1

🛠️ FIXES

  • Adjusted resizable column
  • Adjusted icon gap spacing
  • Adjusted plugin detail hover
  • Adjusted plugin toast
  • Adjusted speed graph resizing
  • Adjusted linear progress bar resizing
  • Fixed on key down handler for taskbar
  • other minor bug fix
  • other UI adjustments

✨ CHANGES

  • Hid Format Converter for upgrading

v1.6.0

🚀 NEW FEATURES

  • Taskbar UI & Download Flow
    • Icon-based taskbar with a cleaner look
    • Download settings toggle, search, and add URL directly from the taskbar input
  • Download Logs Panel
    • View download progress data and detailed logs for each download through the side panel.
  • Activity Tracker Panel
    • Track download’s activities with comprehensive explanation for each download step or error in real-time through the side panel.
  • Speed Graph
    • Visual display of your download speeds.

 

🎨 CHANGES

  • Updated theme colors, font family, and font sizes for a more refined UI.
  • Multiple download statuses now persist after closing the app.
  • Minor UI refinements for consistency.

 

🛠️ FIXES

  • Fixed invalid YouTube URL detection on clipboard copy.
  • Fixed plugin cards not loading properly.
  • Fixed inconsistencies between search and URL validation.
  • Resolved input lag in the search bar when spammed.

  • Fixed history remove button visibility and function.

  • Fixed bugs with download context menu actions.

  • Other minor stability and UI bug fixes.

v1.4.15

✨ CHANGES

  • UI adjustments to modals and other shared components
  • Adjusted Tags and categories
  • Added raw link cleaner for youtube
  • Adjusted flow for checking new updates

v1.3.13

✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • adjusted cancel button inside the remove modal
  • fixed taskbar plugin icon display
  • added download selection for format converter plugin
  • fixed cc download
  • added delete logic for initializing downloads
  • adjusted remove logic for currently downloading, paused and stopped downloads
  • adjusted the “All selected files exist at their locations” toast
  • adjusted minimum width of all columns
  • dark mode update
  • taskbar menu items loading on app start

v1.3.11
🚀 MAJOR UPDATES

  • Updater now sticks to the same version type (e.g. experimental → experimental, stable → stable)

✨ CHANGES

  • Adjusted rename modal UI and logic

  • Adjusted child modals of download context menu

  • Adjusted category and tags context menu

  • Improved tagging and category logic

  • Fixed dark/light mode toggle in the sidebar

  • Improved toast UI design

  • Enhanced schema logic

  • Made the app more responsive on various screen sizes

  • UI enhancements (Status Pages and History)

🔧 BUG FIXES

  • Fixed navigation context menu

  • Fixed checkbox toggle

  • Optimized updater logic

  • Improved file handling logic (automatically redownloads or removes missing files)

  • Bug fixes and overall UI/UX improvements from the previous stable version

⚠️ KNOWN ISSUES

  • Downloads stuck at “Initializing” on slow internet
  • Downloads may hang during initialization on poor connections, preventing .part files from completing MP4 assembly
    Workaround: Restart download or try during better network conditions
    Status: Under investigation

v1.3.6✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • YT-DLP EBUSY error

  • Remove button behaviour
  • Expanded Detail information
  • Tags/categories selection
  • Toggle select via row click
  • UI adjustments

v1.3.3
✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • Main feature: Plugins and Manual Plugin SDK

  • Plugin Manager Page (Manage, Add and remove plugins)

  • Plugin Details Page

 

✨UPDATES

  • minor UI updates

  • Darkmode adjustment

  • Sidebar extension

v1.3.1
✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • Main feature: Plugins and Manual Plugin SDK

  • Plugin Manager Page (Manage, Add and remove plugins)

  • Plugin Details Page

  • Search Plugins

  • Plugin Download Context Menu (interact with plugins through context menu)

  • enable and disable plugs (for both individual plugin and plugin feature itself)

  • toast notification for plugin actions

  • 2 new basic plugins (base metadata plugin [will be improved] and base ytdlp plugin)

 

✨ OTHER FEATURES

  • Closed Captions (Transcription)

  • Thumbnail

  • Toggleable cc and thumbnails through download modal

  • Downloads now save in individual folders

  • Toggleable navigation bar

 

✨ UPDATES

  • minor UI updates

  • view folder shortcut

  • view video shortcut

 

🔧 BUG FIXES

  • UI block overlay for directory selection

  • auto close dropdowns on minimize window

  • fixed on-hover padding

  • fixed selected new download location delay

  • fixed dropdowns not closing on dropdown bar bug

  • fixed context menu toggles bug

v1.2.1
✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • Missing system tray notification icon for Downlo.dr application

  • Multiple instances of Downlo.dr launch when clicking application icon in taskbar

  • File size remains constant regardless of selected download quality settings

  • System tray notifcations for finished downloads

v1.2.0
✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • New download status pages
    (Fetching metadata, start download, downloading, paused, initializing, failed, finished)

  • New UI for Tags and Categories Pages

  • Adjusted Navigation UI

  • Adjusted Dropdown bar UI

  • Adjusted Expanded detail bar

  • Added Move, Remove columns in Tags and Categories

  • New Download Statuses

  • Updated View Folder

  • Adjusted Remove Button

  • Added Background Service Feature
  • Added System Tray Feature

  • Bug fixes

v1.0.0
✨ NEW FEATURES

  • Light Mode/Dark Mode

  • Scheduler/Modal UI

  • Added History Page

  • Settings Modal UI

  • Tags

  • Category

 

🎨 UI ADJUSTMENTS

  • Editable width of columns

  • 2 lines max for columns

  • Circular progress bar

  • Extractor key name for source

  • History sorts based on newest to oldest

v0.0.1

✨NEW FEATURES

Expanded Platform Support

Added support for downloading audio and video files from most mainstream platforms

  • Implemented universal format filtering system across all supported platforms
  • Improved download compatibility and reliability

Not all platforms, are supported for downloading.

 

📝 NOTES

  • Premium and freemium site functionality has not been tested
  • Universal format filtering has been optimized for all supported platforms
  • Download capabilities have been thoroughly tested on supported platform

 

🔄 TESTING STATUS

  • ✅ All listed supported platforms verified
  • ❌ Premium site testing pending
  • ❌ Freemium site testing pending
Version 1.7.7

v1.7.7

✨ UPDATES

  • found fix for javascript error, and other download errors

 

➕ ADDED

  • selection counter for History

 

🐞 FIXED

  • fixed propagation for share button
  • adjusted gap size of navigation components

 

📦 PLUGINS

  • fixed pathing bug for metadata exporter
  • fixed audio conversion for format converter

v1.7.1

🛠️ FIXES

  • Adjusted resizable column
  • Adjusted icon gap spacing
  • Adjusted plugin detail hover
  • Adjusted plugin toast
  • Adjusted speed graph resizing
  • Adjusted linear progress bar resizing
  • Fixed on key down handler for taskbar
  • other minor bug fix
  • other UI adjustments

 

✨ CHANGES

  • Hid Format Converter for upgrading

v1.6.0

🚀 NEW FEATURES

  • Taskbar UI & Download Flow
    • Icon-based taskbar with a cleaner look
    • Download settings toggle, search, and add URL directly from the taskbar input
  • Download Logs Panel
    • View download progress data and detailed logs for each download through the side panel.
  • Activity Tracker Panel
    • Track download’s activities with comprehensive explanation for each download step or error in real-time through the side panel.
  • Speed Graph
    • Visual display of your download speeds.

 

🎨 CHANGES

  • Updated theme colors, font family, and font sizes for a more refined UI.
  • Multiple download statuses now persist after closing the app.
  • Minor UI refinements for consistency.

 

🛠️ FIXES

  • Fixed invalid YouTube URL detection on clipboard copy.
  • Fixed plugin cards not loading properly.
  • Fixed inconsistencies between search and URL validation.
  • Resolved input lag in the search bar when spammed.

  • Fixed history remove button visibility and function.

  • Fixed bugs with download context menu actions.

  • Other minor stability and UI bug fixes.

v1.4.15

✨ CHANGES

  • UI adjustments to modals and other shared components
  • Adjusted Tags and categories
  • Added raw link cleaner for youtube
  • Adjusted flow for checking new updates

v1.3.13

✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • adjusted cancel button inside the remove modal
  • fixed taskbar plugin icon display
  • added download selection for format converter plugin
  • fixed cc download
  • added delete logic for initializing downloads
  • adjusted remove logic for currently downloading, paused and stopped downloads
  • adjusted the “All selected files exist at their locations” toast
  • adjusted minimum width of all columns
  • dark mode update
  • taskbar menu items loading on app start

v1.3.11
🚀 MAJOR UPDATES

  • Updater now sticks to the same version type (e.g. experimental → experimental, stable → stable)

 

✨ CHANGES

  • Adjusted rename modal UI and logic

  • Adjusted child modals of download context menu

  • Adjusted category and tags context menu

  • Improved tagging and category logic

  • Fixed dark/light mode toggle in the sidebar

  • Improved toast UI design

  • Enhanced schema logic

  • Made the app more responsive on various screen sizes

  • UI enhancements (Status Pages and History)

 

🔧 BUG FIXES

  • Fixed navigation context menu

  • Fixed checkbox toggle

  • Optimized updater logic

  • Improved file handling logic (automatically redownloads or removes missing files)

  • Bug fixes and overall UI/UX improvements from the previous stable version

 

⚠️ KNOWN ISSUES

  • Downloads stuck at “Initializing” on slow internet
  • Downloads may hang during initialization on poor connections, preventing .part files from completing MP4 assembly
    Workaround: Restart download or try during better network conditions
    Status: Under investigation

v1.3.6✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • YT-DLP EBUSY error

  • Remove button behaviour
  • Expanded Detail information
  • Tags/categories selection
  • Toggle select via row click
  • UI adjustments

v1.3.3
✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • Main feature: Plugins and Manual Plugin SDK

  • Plugin Manager Page (Manage, Add and remove plugins)

  • Plugin Details Page

 

✨UPDATES

  • minor UI updates

  • Darkmode adjustment

  • Sidebar extension

v1.3.1
✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • Main feature: Plugins and Manual Plugin SDK

  • Plugin Manager Page (Manage, Add and remove plugins)

  • Plugin Details Page

  • Search Plugins

  • Plugin Download Context Menu (interact with plugins through context menu)

  • enable and disable plugs (for both individual plugin and plugin feature itself)

  • toast notification for plugin actions

  • 2 new basic plugins (base metadata plugin [will be improved] and base ytdlp plugin)

 

✨ OTHER FEATURES

  • Closed Captions (Transcription)

  • Thumbnail

  • Toggleable cc and thumbnails through download modal

  • Downloads now save in individual folders

  • Toggleable navigation bar

 

✨ UPDATES

  • minor UI updates

  • view folder shortcut

  • view video shortcut

 

🔧 BUG FIXES

  • UI block overlay for directory selection

  • auto close dropdowns on minimize window

  • fixed on-hover padding

  • fixed selected new download location delay

  • fixed dropdowns not closing on dropdown bar bug

  • fixed context menu toggles bug

v1.2.1
✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • Missing system tray notification icon for Downlo.dr application

  • Multiple instances of Downlo.dr launch when clicking application icon in taskbar

  • File size remains constant regardless of selected download quality settings

  • System tray notifcations for finished downloads

v1.2.0
✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • New download status pages
    (Fetching metadata, start download, downloading, paused, initializing, failed, finished)

  • New UI for Tags and Categories Pages

  • Adjusted Navigation UI

  • Adjusted Dropdown bar UI

  • Adjusted Expanded detail bar

  • Added Move, Remove columns in Tags and Categories

  • New Download Statuses

  • Updated View Folder

  • Adjusted Remove Button

  • Added Background Service Feature
  • Added System Tray Feature

  • Bug fixes

v1.0.0
✨ NEW FEATURES

  • Light Mode/Dark Mode

  • Scheduler/Modal UI

  • Added History Page

  • Settings Modal UI

  • Tags

  • Category

 

🎨 UI ADJUSTMENTS

  • Editable width of columns

  • 2 lines max for columns

  • Circular progress bar

  • Extractor key name for source

  • History sorts based on newest to oldest

v0.0.1

✨NEW FEATURES

Expanded Platform Support

Added support for downloading audio and video files from most mainstream platforms

  • Implemented universal format filtering system across all supported platforms
  • Improved download compatibility and reliability

Not all platforms, are supported for downloading.

 

📝 NOTES

  • Premium and freemium site functionality has not been tested
  • Universal format filtering has been optimized for all supported platforms
  • Download capabilities have been thoroughly tested on supported platform

 

🔄 TESTING STATUS

  • ✅ All listed supported platforms verified
  • ❌ Premium site testing pending
  • ❌ Freemium site testing pending
Version 1.7.7

v1.7.7

✨ UPDATES

  • found fix for javascript error, and other download errors

 

➕ ADDED

  • selection counter for History

 

🐞 FIXED

  • fixed propagation for share button
  • adjusted gap size of navigation components

 

📦 PLUGINS

  • fixed pathing bug for metadata exporter
  • fixed audio conversion for format converter

v1.7.1

🛠️ FIXES

  • Adjusted resizable column
  • Adjusted icon gap spacing
  • Adjusted plugin detail hover
  • Adjusted plugin toast
  • Adjusted speed graph resizing
  • Adjusted linear progress bar resizing
  • Fixed on key down handler for taskbar
  • other minor bug fix
  • other UI adjustments

 

✨ CHANGES

  • Hid Format Converter for upgrading

v1.6.0

🚀 NEW FEATURES

  • Taskbar UI & Download Flow
    • Icon-based taskbar with a cleaner look
    • Download settings toggle, search, and add URL directly from the taskbar input
  • Download Logs Panel
    • View download progress data and detailed logs for each download through the side panel.
  • Activity Tracker Panel
    • Track download’s activities with comprehensive explanation for each download step or error in real-time through the side panel.
  • Speed Graph
    • Visual display of your download speeds.

 

🎨 CHANGES

  • Updated theme colors, font family, and font sizes for a more refined UI.
  • Multiple download statuses now persist after closing the app.
  • Minor UI refinements for consistency.

 

🛠️ FIXES

  • Fixed invalid YouTube URL detection on clipboard copy.
  • Fixed plugin cards not loading properly.
  • Fixed inconsistencies between search and URL validation.
  • Resolved input lag in the search bar when spammed.

  • Fixed history remove button visibility and function.

  • Fixed bugs with download context menu actions.

  • Other minor stability and UI bug fixes.

v1.4.15

✨ CHANGES

  • UI adjustments to modals and other shared components
  • Adjusted Tags and categories
  • Added raw link cleaner for youtube
  • Adjusted flow for checking new updates

v1.3.13

✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • adjusted cancel button inside the remove modal
  • fixed taskbar plugin icon display
  • added download selection for format converter plugin
  • fixed cc download
  • added delete logic for initializing downloads
  • adjusted remove logic for currently downloading, paused and stopped downloads
  • adjusted the “All selected files exist at their locations” toast
  • adjusted minimum width of all columns
  • dark mode update
  • taskbar menu items loading on app start

v1.3.11
🚀 MAJOR UPDATES

  • Updater now sticks to the same version type (e.g. experimental → experimental, stable → stable)

 

✨ CHANGES

  • Adjusted rename modal UI and logic

  • Adjusted child modals of download context menu

  • Adjusted category and tags context menu

  • Improved tagging and category logic

  • Fixed dark/light mode toggle in the sidebar

  • Improved toast UI design

  • Enhanced schema logic

  • Made the app more responsive on various screen sizes

  • UI enhancements (Status Pages and History)

 

🔧 BUG FIXES

  • Fixed navigation context menu

  • Fixed checkbox toggle

  • Optimized updater logic

  • Improved file handling logic (automatically redownloads or removes missing files)

  • Bug fixes and overall UI/UX improvements from the previous stable version

 

⚠️ KNOWN ISSUES

  • Downloads stuck at “Initializing” on slow internet
  • Downloads may hang during initialization on poor connections, preventing .part files from completing MP4 assembly
    Workaround: Restart download or try during better network conditions
    Status: Under investigation

v1.3.6✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • YT-DLP EBUSY error

  • Remove button behaviour
  • Expanded Detail information
  • Tags/categories selection
  • Toggle select via row click
  • UI adjustments

v1.3.3
✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • Main feature: Plugins and Manual Plugin SDK

  • Plugin Manager Page (Manage, Add and remove plugins)

  • Plugin Details Page

 

✨UPDATES

  • minor UI updates

  • Darkmode adjustment

  • Sidebar extension

v1.3.1
✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • Main feature: Plugins and Manual Plugin SDK

  • Plugin Manager Page (Manage, Add and remove plugins)

  • Plugin Details Page

  • Search Plugins

  • Plugin Download Context Menu (interact with plugins through context menu)

  • enable and disable plugs (for both individual plugin and plugin feature itself)

  • toast notification for plugin actions

  • 2 new basic plugins (base metadata plugin [will be improved] and base ytdlp plugin)

 

✨ OTHER FEATURES

  • Closed Captions (Transcription)

  • Thumbnail

  • Toggleable cc and thumbnails through download modal

  • Downloads now save in individual folders

  • Toggleable navigation bar

 

✨ UPDATES

  • minor UI updates

  • view folder shortcut

  • view video shortcut

 

🔧 BUG FIXES

  • UI block overlay for directory selection

  • auto close dropdowns on minimize window

  • fixed on-hover padding

  • fixed selected new download location delay

  • fixed dropdowns not closing on dropdown bar bug

  • fixed context menu toggles bug

v1.2.1
✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • Missing system tray notification icon for Downlo.dr application

  • Multiple instances of Downlo.dr launch when clicking application icon in taskbar

  • File size remains constant regardless of selected download quality settings

  • System tray notifcations for finished downloads

v1.2.0
✨ FIXES AND ADDITIONS

  • New download status pages
    (Fetching metadata, start download, downloading, paused, initializing, failed, finished)

  • New UI for Tags and Categories Pages

  • Adjusted Navigation UI

  • Adjusted Dropdown bar UI

  • Adjusted Expanded detail bar

  • Added Move, Remove columns in Tags and Categories

  • New Download Statuses

  • Updated View Folder

  • Adjusted Remove Button

  • Added Background Service Feature
  • Added System Tray Feature

  • Bug fixes

v1.0.0
✨ NEW FEATURES

  • Light Mode/Dark Mode

  • Scheduler/Modal UI

  • Added History Page

  • Settings Modal UI

  • Tags

  • Category

 

🎨 UI ADJUSTMENTS

  • Editable width of columns

  • 2 lines max for columns

  • Circular progress bar

  • Extractor key name for source

  • History sorts based on newest to oldest

v0.0.1

✨NEW FEATURES

Expanded Platform Support

Added support for downloading audio and video files from most mainstream platforms

  • Implemented universal format filtering system across all supported platforms
  • Improved download compatibility and reliability

Not all platforms, are supported for downloading.

 

📝 NOTES

  • Premium and freemium site functionality has not been tested
  • Universal format filtering has been optimized for all supported platforms
  • Download capabilities have been thoroughly tested on supported platform

 

🔄 TESTING STATUS

  • ✅ All listed supported platforms verified
  • ❌ Premium site testing pending
  • ❌ Freemium site testing pending