Aevum is a self-contained desktop app for downloading video and audio from
YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter/X, Dailymotion, Twitch and around 1,800 other sites —
anything yt-dlp supports.
Paste a link and it previews the title, duration and thumbnail before you
commit, dimming the resolutions the video does not actually offer. Pick a
quality up to 4K, a container (MP4, MKV, WebM, or an editor-friendly H.264
preset), or extract audio as MP3, M4A, Opus, FLAC or WAV at the bitrate you
choose. It also handles playlists, embedded subtitles, thumbnails, clip
trimming and browser cookies for content behind a login.
yt-dlp, FFmpeg and ffprobe are bundled, so there is nothing else to install
and no Python required. The interface runs as a local page in your browser
and the app sits in the system tray. Downloading is entirely local; the only
outside address it contacts is GitHub, and only when you open Settings to
check for a newer version. From 1.2.5 it can install that update itself,
verifying every download against the SHA-256 the release publishes.
No ads, no tracking, no telemetry, no accounts, no bundled extras.