Vividl - Video Downloader News

Version 0.9.0 (2025-06)

A new version of Vividl has been released today and includes various bug fixes, improvements and translation updates. The new update is now available for download via SourceForge and Chocolatey (see links below).

Changes in detail

The full list of changes in this version, including minor improvements:

• New: Hungarian, Korean translation.
• Updated: Chinese, Italian and Japanese translation.
• Updated: Extend resolution enum.
• Fixed: Preserving settings & preferences when updating the app.
• Fixed: Don't add duplicates in automation mode.
• Fixed: Use relative binary paths in portable mode.
• Fixed: Ensure direct format download have audio.
• Fixed: Ensure download progress is shown from yt-dlp.... read more

Version 0.8.0 (2024-01)

Version 0.8.0 marks the first update of Vividl in 2024 and releases a large set of new features, improvements and bug fixes developed in the last few months, many based on user requests. The new update is now available for download via SourceForge and Chocolatey (see links below).

What's new

The main novelties introduced in v.0.8.0 are highlighted below:

Preferred video resolution: You can now specify a preferred video resolution for download in the settings under General -> Download List -> Preferred Video Resolution. Vividl will automatically try to select download formats matching the preferred resolution for direct video downloads and video conversion downloads (falling back to lower resolutions otherwise). On a per-download basis, this feature can also be configured in the "Add New Videos" window. Further, the download format lists in the "Configure Download" window are now automatically sorted by this resolution preference. (Note that this feature only works with yt-dlp and not with youtube-dl as download engine.)... read more

Version 0.7.0 (2023-03)

The latest version of Vividl, released today, brings various new features and bug fixes implemented over the last few months. This especially includes better support for recent versions of yt-dlp, where multiple issues causing app crashes have been fixed. The included yt-dlp version has been updated to 2023.03.04.

All changes introduced in this version are listed below:... read more

Version 0.6.0 (2022-01)

The first update of Vividl in 2022 brings some bigger changes under the hood. Up until now, Vividl has used youtube-dl as its default video download engine. However, as development on this widely popular project has slowed down recently, Vividl switches to yt-dlp in v.0.6.0, a more up-to-date version of the original project. This change will not only bring better support for many websites, but also faster download speeds. The Windows installer and portable releases of the new version ship with the new engine by default. The included yt-dlp version is 2021.12.27.... read more

Version 0.5.0 (2021-06)

A new version of Vividl has been released today and is now available for download via SourceForge and Chocolatey. Besides UI improvements, the new version 0.5.0 mainly brings more flexibility in configuring video downloads.

What's new

The main addition in v.0.5.0 is the new "Configure Download" window which allows a detailed configuration of the downloaded video formats and format conversions. The new window can be opened by clicking the "Configure Download" button on a video list item or by selecting "Custom Download" in the format drop-down. It shows all available video, audio and audio+video tracks available for download for a certain video. By selecting entries from the lists, you can freely configure the format and quality to download. Additional controls show conversion options as well as approximated download size.... read more

Version 0.4.0 (2020-11)

The Vividl project participated in this year's Hacktoberfest, a month-long event on GitHub every October to encourage and promote contributions to open-source software development. With the start of Hacktoberfest in early October, we asked for help with translation of this app to other languages. This new version includes all Hacktoberfest contributions of the last month.... read more

Version 0.3.0 (2020-10)

A new version of Vividl with a couple of new features has been released today and is now available for download via SourceForge or Chocolatey.

What's new

Version 0.3.0 brings an extended dialog for adding new video links. You can now specify options such as the download format to be used directly when adding the URLs of videos after clicking "Add New Videos". You can now also give credentials needed to access the videos here.... read more

Version 0.2.2 (2020-05)

A new minor update of Vividl has been released today. The new version brings translations of the UI into other languages and bug fixes.

What's new

With German and Russian, v.0.2.2 brings the first translations of Vividl into languages other than English. We need your help to translate this app to more languages. Just reach out in the forum or start contributing on GitHub to add your language to Vividl.... read more

EDIT: Version 0.2.0 introduced some bugs that were fixed shortly after the release with the update to v.0.2.1.

Version 0.2.0 (2020-03)

A new update of the Vividl video downloaded has been released today and is now available for download on SourceForge and Chocolatey.
The new version brings some new features and important bug fixes, so please update as soon as possible.... read more

Version 0.1.1 (2020-01)

Thanks to user feedback, this new update fixes some bugs of the initial version of Vividl that could cause app crashes. Also, the used version of youtube-dl was updated to 2020.01.24 which fixes a few video extraction errors.

In detail, the changes to Vividl are:

• Fixed: App crashes for failed fetches.
• Fixed: Saving of settings in portable version.
• Fixed: Tooltip labeling.... read more

Vividl - Video Downloader for Windows

Vividl is a Windows app that lets you download videos from various websites, including YouTube.
It uses the popular program youtube-dl to extract videos from several hundred websites. Just copy a video URL,
paste it in Vividl and download the video in different qualities, convert it to other formats or to an audio track.
You can also manage the parallel download of multiple videos and retrieve additonal meta information using the simple UI.... read more