From the team at Ascended Entertainment
VidSwipe finds the playable video and audio hiding on the page you're looking at and saves it straight to your Downloads folder. A lightweight Chrome extension, plus a desktop app that tries every download strategy until one works.
Free · No account · No tracking
The browser extension covers most pages instantly. The desktop app handles the hard cases: YouTube, login-gated, and region-locked sites.
Click the toolbar icon and VidSwipe Lite scans the current tab for playable media, previews each file with a real thumbnail, and saves the one you pick.
Paste a URL, pick a folder, hit Download. VidSwipe runs through a cascade of strategies, in order of likelihood, until the video actually starts downloading.
yt-dlp with a bundled binary (no Python needed).m3u8 / .mp4 streamsGo to any page with a video or audio player and press play.
Click the VidSwipe icon or right-click the video. Pick the file you want from the previews.
The file lands in your Downloads folder, straight from the source. Done.
Version 1.0.0. Free to use. The Chrome extension is arriving on the Web Store shortly, check back soon.
chmod +x Vid-Swipe-1.0.0.AppImage) then run it. Everything else,
including the yt-dlp binary, is bundled.
No accounts, no analytics, no tracking, no telemetry. Media detection happens entirely inside your browser, and downloads go straight from the source to your disk.