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