FuzeVD - Video Downloader

An open-source Youtube video downloader. Once you install, you're all set since FuzeVD can update itself.

Download: Windows installer (64 bit) - Windows 8 or newer is required, as well as Python.

"this is actually really f**kin good and so lightweight and simple. better than cliply" - Someone on Discord
FuzeVD 2.1.4 ^[GitHub] was released on 8^th of October, 2025.

Paste a URL and download into a video or audio format of your choice. Supports Youtube and many other websites ^{[Supported sites]}.

FuzeVD uses the libraries yt-dlp and ffmpeg. This is just a GUI wrapper for yt-dlp so for complex operations you can use the included exe, but you will need to learn some commands.

Gallery

A screenshot of FuzeVD version 2.1.0 — Here is what FuzeVD looks like on Windows 10™

A screenshot of FuzeVD version 2.0 — An older version of FuzeVD on Windows 7™

FuzeVD-Updater

If newer versions are available, FuzeVD Updater can install them automatically. Click on the "Check For Updates" button to open the updater.
Youtube sometimes pushes updates that break video downloaders, so if a download is not working you should check for updates; a patch may have been rolled out. Fuze.page's repositories sometimes don't have the latest version of the underlying library, yt-dlp, so an "external update yt-dlp" button was added which uses yt-dlp's built-in updater. Note that FuzeVD-updater will still show the last version that was downloaded from Fuze.page.

The future of FuzeVD

FuzeVD may be rewritten soon using a different toolkit, most likely the QT framework, since I found .NET 6 too buggy to work with. This software uses .NET Framework 4.7.2 - it works well for now, however staying on such an old framework for too long might lead to problems down the road.
Because of Youtube's recent crackdown on video downloaders (likely as a response to scraping for AI training data), the future of yt-dlp, and hence the future of FuzeVD, is uncertain.

Changelog

8^th October 2025

2.1.4

Keep yt-dlp's output of the download progress in one line.
Raised the cooldown of progress updates to 0.73 seconds.

These changes help avoid having too much text in the console output, which caused FuzeVD to lag on large downloads.

This release is likely to be the last for a while, although the dependencies will be kept up-to-date as usual. FuzeVD has been around since 2021 and it's not going anywhere - as long as YouTube doesn't fully kill video downloaders.

4^th October 2025

2.1.3

Added new section to allow yt-dlp to read cookies from an installed web browser. This makes it possible to download age-restricted Youtube videos if the user is logged in. The box is editable to allow more options - see GitHub.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#filesystem-options.
Show a notification when a video has finished downloading or when yt-dlp returns an error.
Fixed the "Compatibility Mode" checkbox being locked when FuzeVD is started with an audio format selected.
Fixed a crash when using "Among Us drip" quality (144p).

26^th September 2025

2.1.2

~~Implemented a workaround for a recent issue with yt-dlp (see: yt-dlp/yt-dlp#14456).~~ Now fixed on the yt-dlp side.
Link in bottom left now fetches its text content from the Fuze.page server.
Fixed FuzeVD Updater not deleting the fuzevd-versions-server.fauv file which caused the program to not uninstall fully.
Minor UI updates

3^rd September 2025

2.1.1

All four checkboxes in the settings panel now load the previous state, instead of just the AV1 toggle.
Directory picker icon is now shown correctly instead of being cropped. This visual bug was caused by GUI changes in Windows since Windows 7.
Added --mtime parameter to the command. This is because yt-dlp changed the default behaviour to not save the server-side video modification date in release 2025.07.21.

10^th January 2025

2.1.0

This release contains major bug fixes and a few additions.
The previously selected format and quality will now load on application startup.
Removed the broken notification feature ^{Note: re-implemented in 2.1.3} and added options to:

Save chapters as separate video files.
Include the video ID (which is now excluded by default).
Disable the downloading of AV1-encoded video.