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Red - Best Youtube Experience you will be ever served on Desktop!

Website for "The Red App" - The YouTube client for Desktop Linux and Windows.

Red is a neat, simple yet feature rich, privacy focused Youtube Player and Downloader application available for Linux and Windows Platform.

Main Features of Red :

  • Red give you complete Youtube Experience, you can sign-in to your account and Download or Play content straight from your collection.
  • Red persists users settings without needing to SignUp or SignIn for a Youtube account .
  • Red comes with built-in lightweight yet powerful Ad-blocker which was designed to block annoying Youtube ads without slowing down the experience.
  • Red has option to block Youtube's nasty Loggers and trackers.
  • Red allows you to disable loading of comments on video.
  • Red cares for your privacy, It comes with App screen Lock feature, which prevent anyone one from gaining access to your Application/Account without your passcode.
  • Red has its own Download Manager, which allows you to download media in any format you want, You can also resume the downloads even after years.
  • You can download or listen Audio only of any Video in 7 audio formats (mp3, aac, m4a, opus, flac, wav, and vorbis).
  • Red allows you download Video with your preferred audio and video quality and in their different combinations.
  • Red Also have its own media player inbuilt with Hardware encoding support enabled by default.
  • Red keeps your 30 recently visited videos in its history manager, so that you can visit them later without even signing-up for a Youtube account.
  • Red saves your last visited page and allow you to restore it even after app shutdowns.
  • Red take less RAM and is lighter in memory footprint then Youtube tab opened in Chrome or Firefox.
  • Red comes with Dark Theme enabled by default, but you can switch theme anytime from settings widget.
  • Everyone loves Youtube's Cinema mode, and sick of Youtube turning it off as you browse through different videos right ?? Red comes with a feature to force Youtube Cinema mode.
  • Youtube tends to automatically start playback of video as you click a video link which is annoying sometime, Red helps you prevent this behaviour, by giving user an option to toggle between the same.
  • Youtube do not allow playback of media when you switch tab or minimize your web browser, which make the concept of playlist completely fail. Red continues playback while minimized.
  • Red exposes options to manage application Cache and Cookie to users.
  • Red will bring many more exciting features in near future, spread the name and the app with your friends, family and colleagues.

Screenshot :

Red Main screen

Red Video Options

Red's Download Manager

Red's Settings Dialog

Mini player

Red's builtin player in action

AppLock in action

Download for Windows and Linux here :

Red can be installed on all Linux Desktop supporting snapd Via command line app can be simply installed with following command:

snap install red-app

Snapstore Store link:

red-app

Get it from the Snap Store

FAQ:


Version for Windows coming soon... Stay tuned for updates :)