🎬 Youwee v0.8.0
A modern, beautiful YouTube downloader built with Tauri.
✨ What's New
Added
- DPAPI error detection - Detect Chrome 127+ App-Bound Encryption errors on Windows, show troubleshooting hint to use Firefox or Cookie File mode
- Image attachment in Processing - Upload images via attach button or drag & drop, AI generates FFmpeg commands for overlay, watermark, intro/outro, PiP and more
- Custom Whisper backend - Configure custom endpoint URL and model for Whisper transcription, compatible with Groq, LocalAI, Faster-Whisper and other OpenAI-compatible APIs
- SponsorBlock integration - Auto-skip sponsors, intros, outros and promotions using community data. Three modes: Remove all (cut segments), Mark all (chapter markers), or Custom per-category control
- Scheduled downloads - Schedule downloads to start at a specific time with optional stop time. Quick presets (1h, 3h, tonight, tomorrow) or custom time picker. Works on both YouTube and Universal pages
Changed
- Processing input layout - Move prompt templates button into input card, textarea on top with action buttons below
- yt-dlp channel selector - Redesigned from segmented toggle to radio cards with descriptions, active badge, and install status for clearer selection
Fixed
- 8K download gets 4K - High-res (8K/4K/2K) ignored user's codec setting and always forced VP9. Now respects codec choice and prioritizes AV1 for 8K, VP9 for 4K/2K when set to Auto
- Download speed not showing - Fixed regex not capturing speed and ETA from yt-dlp progress output
- Failed to fetch video info for YouTube - Add Deno JS runtime to video info, transcript, playlist, and subtitle fetching (same as download)
- Video title shows Unknown in Library - Extract title from filepath when yt-dlp doesn't output Destination message
- Slow yt-dlp version loading - Eliminated redundant version checks on startup (7 sequential calls → 1), channel info now uses lightweight file-exists check instead of running binaries
📥 Download
| Platform | File | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 🍎 Mac (M1/M2/M3/M4) | Youwee-Mac-Apple-Silicon.dmg
| For Apple Silicon Macs |
| 🍎 Mac (Intel) | Youwee-Mac-Intel.dmg
| For Intel-based Macs |
| 🪟 Windows | Youwee-Windows.msi
| MSI Installer |
| 🪟 Windows | Youwee-Windows-Setup.exe
| EXE Installer |
| 🐧 Linux | Youwee-Linux.deb
| Debian/Ubuntu |
| 🐧 Linux | Youwee-Linux.AppImage
| Portable (all distros) |
📋 Requirements
- Windows: Windows 10 or later
- macOS: 10.15 (Catalina) or later
- Linux: Ubuntu 22.04 or equivalent
🔧 Optional
- FFmpeg - for best video/audio quality (auto-download available in Settings)
- Bun Runtime - if you can only download 360p from YouTube (auto-download available in Settings)
🔐 Verify Downloads
Download SHA256SUMS.txt and verify:
sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt