Reviews for Ant Video Downloader
Ant Video Downloader by ANT
Review by Izheil
Rated 4 out of 5
by Izheil, 5 years agoThe extension works pretty good where many other video downloaders fail (and it's free, unlike others for the same functionability!), so it's highly recommendable.
The things I liked most were that it supports most sites (even streaming sites), and it even allows you to only download the video or the audio parts of the video (it might download it as a weird extension for audio sometimes, but you can just change it to opus and edit it with audacity or other audio editor to get the right file format).
It also will tell you the resolution of the video of the site you are in (when there is one, of course), but it will fetch it only once you are actually playing the video in that resolution.
There were just 2 things that I missed compared to other video downloaders tho...
- Being able to change the name of the video before or after downloading it (You can't choose the name of the video you download, it gets pre-fetched from the site)
- Queueing downloads. You might want to download a few videos in a row some time... and you'd usually not want to have more than 2-3 videos downloading at the same time (AVD just adds each video you choose to download to the downloads list and starts right away, without any option to limit the amount of downloads at a time and download the rest once one download finished).
The things I liked most were that it supports most sites (even streaming sites), and it even allows you to only download the video or the audio parts of the video (it might download it as a weird extension for audio sometimes, but you can just change it to opus and edit it with audacity or other audio editor to get the right file format).
It also will tell you the resolution of the video of the site you are in (when there is one, of course), but it will fetch it only once you are actually playing the video in that resolution.
There were just 2 things that I missed compared to other video downloaders tho...
- Being able to change the name of the video before or after downloading it (You can't choose the name of the video you download, it gets pre-fetched from the site)
- Queueing downloads. You might want to download a few videos in a row some time... and you'd usually not want to have more than 2-3 videos downloading at the same time (AVD just adds each video you choose to download to the downloads list and starts right away, without any option to limit the amount of downloads at a time and download the rest once one download finished).
Developer response
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1,906 reviews
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- Rated 2 out of 5by deionne, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18996030, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Wolf, 5 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by djdanby, 5 months agoMacht was es soll. Auch auf diversen anderen Seiten neben Youtube. Allerdings ist bei manchen Websites nicht ersichtlich ob es sich bei der Datei die man herunterladen möchte um Audio oder Video Material handelt. Oft lädt man eine Datei die dann keinen Ton hat, oder eine Datei die nur Ton ist, aber keinen Videoinhalt hat. Hier sollte noch nachgebessert werden.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Derakin, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17526896, 6 months agoStill displays "Native app is not available". Tried hard to find any information in extension settings but there is nothing about it :-(
- Rated 5 out of 5by RiD1, 6 months agoThis was awesome when it was working but I think this is one of the first apps google targetted on their youtube downloader shutting down spree. We now have a broken app.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13457384, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mark, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by abracsas, 7 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13857576, 8 months agoSo ..it has come to this huh ...
As a user of this extension for about 10 years ...a couple of years ago (2021) when they did the update to the new interface style etc. I immediately warned people to not use it.
Its bad, breaks everything, I reverted back to the last oldest version before that very update ... and I am still using that very version (4.9.2) right now.
I find that it still works good and better then any later version ever could.
I see things havent exactly gotten better since the last time I checked in here.
I also see some people asking for the native app but can't find any. I still have it.
mediafire.com/file/3pzb6vrwhsg6ahr/AVD_4.9.2.rar/file
This rar includes the original 4.9.2 addon installation files for Firefox and the matching native app.
For those interested;
Uninstall any current version of the addon and native app.
Simply extract the .rar
Drag the fx.xpi file into firefox, and it should pop up asking to install
Install the native app if you want
But in Firefox, disable Auto updates on this extension, it just ruins it.
In case you were going to want to try .... I can not guarantee that this specific native app version works with a later browser addon version either. It might just start crying about how that's not up to date. I am not gonna go through the trouble of testing it, I just don't care enough. There are other browser addons to begin with as well.
Now if I could only get Mozilla to stop making stupid changes nobody asked for to begin with as they have done in the past few years ... we'd all be happy campers. - Rated 2 out of 5by SzymonL, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by J.H., 8 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18783735, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18659735, 8 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Rafaelis, 9 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12286457, 9 months agoElsewhere on this page, the developer has announced this extension is discontinued:
"Sorry to announce but Ant Video downloader is discontinued and will no longer be updated. Support is closed."