Freedom Loader is a Windows desktop application built with Electron.
It provides a simple and reliable way to download video or audio content with metadata and advanced options, without ads or questionable third-party services.
The goal is to offer a clean, user-friendly, and transparent download experience. It's important for me to make media content downloading accessible to people who love music or videos and don’t always have an internet connection.
- Video download with metadata (MP4)
- Audio-only download with thumbnail and tags (MP3)
- Full playlist support and better display in UI
- Automatic metadata retrieval (title, duration, author, etc.)
- Detailed logs (console + rotating files for 7 days)
- Progress Bar for download and network speed indicator
- Better UX when fetching info
- Custom output path with persistence
- Automatic dependency updates (YT-DLP)
- Automatic Application Update
- Multiple UI themes
- Simple, responsive interface
- Notifications on download completion (click to open folder)
- Discord Rich Presence
Download the latest installer from the Releases page and run it (Defender could stop you but click on "Run Anyway" and it's good).
Actually, Firefox Browser is the only browser supported for get cookies. You should install it. Follow the tutorial in the wiki page if you need some help, Firefox Section. Link
In your Downloads folder, inside Freedom Loader.
Example path:
C:\Users\[YOUR NAME]\Downloads\Freedom Loader
Try restarting the application, checking the logs, or opening the developer console:
CTRL + SHIFT + I -> “Toggle Developer Tools”.
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Website for Freedom Loader - More format options
- Linux version
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Auto-updating YT-DLP -
Automatic project updates -
Better download status - Better website support (currently only YouTube is fully supported, other site could work but i can't prove it)
- Subtitle support
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UI/UX improvements - Language selection
- Download specific parts of a video
- Custom file naming
- Parallel downloads
- Automatic sponsor skipping
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Extract/split video using native chapters -
Custom output path selection
This project uses:
Contributions are welcome.
Use the GitHub Issues system and include reproduction steps and logs when possible.
Logs can be found here:
C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\FreedomLoader\logs\LOGS-20xx-xx-xx.log
Open a feature request issue with a clear description and use cases.
Fork the repository, make your changes, and submit a PR once everything is tested and clean.
If you'd like to support development:
Freedom Loader is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPLv3).
You are free to use, modify, and redistribute the software under the terms of this license.
See the full license in the LICENSE file.
AI assistance was used occasionally to speed up development, but all code and decisions were reviewed and validated manually.