Local Windows utility
Video Downloader
Paste a link and Spark Tray probes what's available, then lets you pick the exact quality — or pull just the audio. Subtitles, chapters and metadata come along for the ride, and interrupted downloads pick up where they left off.
Windows 10/11 (x64) · Free · No account
Finished files land in your Video Downloads folder.
What it does
Everything Video Downloader handles
A focused set of jobs, each done well — and nothing that phones home.
Pick your quality
Spark Tray probes every available format first, so you choose the resolution and codec you actually want instead of guessing.
Audio-only mode
Just want the sound? Grab a clean audio track and skip the video entirely — great for talks, music and podcasts.
Subtitles & chapters
Embed subtitles and keep chapter markers and metadata so your file arrives complete, not stripped bare.
Whole playlists
Point it at a playlist and Spark Tray expands it into individual downloads, queued and ready to go.
Resumable downloads
Lost your connection? Resumable transfers pick up where they stopped instead of starting the whole thing over.
Straight to a folder
Everything saves to your Video Downloads folder on your own drive — no cloud round-trip, no account.
How it works
From link to done in a few clicks
- 1
Paste a URL
Drop in a video or playlist link. Spark Tray reads it and probes the available formats in the background.
- 2
Pick quality or audio-only
Choose the resolution you want, switch to audio-only, and toggle subtitles or chapters to match your file.
- 3
Download to your PC
Hit download and the file is fetched locally, resuming automatically if the connection drops.
- 4
Find it in your folder
The finished file appears in your Video Downloads folder, subtitles and metadata included.
Under the hood
The engines, named plainly
No mystery boxes — here's exactly what powers the Video Downloader.
- Download engine
- yt-dlp
- Media processing
- ffmpeg (muxing, audio extraction, subtitle embedding)
- Output folder
- Video Downloads
- Handles
- Single videos, playlists, audio-only, embedded subtitles, chapters & metadata
- Platform
- Windows 10/11 (x64) — runs fully on your machine
Spark Tray wraps the same trusted open-source tools power users already reach for — yt-dlp for fetching and ffmpeg for muxing — in a calm, click-through interface. Only download content you have the rights to.
The rest of the belt
Three more tools in the tray
Questions
Video Downloader, answered
Add Video Downloader to your tray
Video Downloader ships inside Spark Tray with the other three tools — one small download, no account.
Windows 10/11 (x64) · Free · No account