Video or audio
Pick the quality, or take only the sound in the format you prefer, tagged with its title and cover.
- Up to the best the site offers
- MP3, FLAC, M4A, Opus or WAV
- Playlists and subtitles
Rush Heart
Download
Paste a link.
Roll.
Rush Heart saves videos and audio to your drive, one link or a list of them, and keeps an eye on the disk while it works.
Download for Windowsor see every release
- Free, no ads
- Sign in from inside the app
- Files stay on your computer
Made for long queues
Paste one link or fifty. Rush Heart works through them and tells you how each one is going.
A list at once
Paste up to 50 links. Rush Heart works through them in a queue, with progress, speed and time left for each. A video opened from a playlist saves just that video.
- Start at a set time, once or daily
- Stop after a set length
- Show any file in its folder
Sign in, right here
Some videos only play for signed-in people. Sign in from Settings and Rush Heart uses your account for that site.
- The site’s own page opens in a window
- A failed video offers Sign in, then retries by itself
- Takes a video’s own password too
Which sites need an account
Sign in once under Settings, Accounts. The site’s own page opens in a window, so your password goes to the site and not to this app.
- InstagramOften needed
- FacebookOften needed
- PatreonOften needed
- NiconicoOften needed
- YouTubeOptional. For age-checked videos
- X (Twitter)Optional
- TikTokOptional
- TwitchOptional
- RedditOptional
- VimeoOptional
- SoundCloudOptional
- BilibiliOptional
Another site takes any address, and a video with its own password takes it from Settings.
And the small things
- Watches your disk
- Set a free-space floor and a size or time limit. The queue pauses before a drive fills up.
- Keeps yt-dlp current
- It checks for updates and asks before it installs anything.
- Everything inside
- FFmpeg and yt-dlp are in the one file, which is why it’s a larger download.
- Live streams
- Save a live stream as it plays, and stop when you like.
- History
- Everything you saved, with its picture. Search it, or show the file.
- Recycle Bin
- Remove a video from the list, and send its file to the Recycle Bin if you want to.
Get Rush Heart
Free for Windows 10 and 11. One portable file, with nothing to install. Paste a link and hit Roll.
Download RushHeart.exeVersion 1.8.2 · 151 MBDownload
Every release on GitHubWith notes and checksumsOpen
Windows may warn youThe app isn’t code-signed, so SmartScreen can show “Windows protected your PC”. Choose More info, then Run anyway. Only do that for a file from this page.
The first open is slowerIt unpacks itself, which can take up to half a minute. It keeps its files in a folder beside the exe.
A note from Inigo
Your videos stay on your computer, and your sign-ins stay there too. There are no ads and nothing to buy, and there won’t be. If a site stops working or something’s broken, write to me. I read everything.
Questions
Is it free?
Yes, completely: no ads, no subscriptions and no paid extras.
What does it work with?
Videos on the sites yt-dlp supports, plus direct HLS streams. Rush Heart keeps yt-dlp up to date and asks before it installs anything.
Is my password safe?
You type it into the site’s own page, in a window, and Rush Heart never sees it. It keeps only the session the site gives back, on your computer. Sign out deletes it.
What if a site won’t let me sign in here?
Some sites refuse sign-ins from app windows. Sign in with your own browser and pick it in Settings, or use a cookies.txt file.
What won’t it do?
It only sees what your own account can see. It won’t get past paywalls, tokens or DRM, and streaming services like Netflix and Prime are blocked. It doesn’t record live cam rooms.
Am I allowed to save this?
That depends on the video and where you live. Only save what you have the right to save, and don’t record people without their permission. Rush Heart asks you to agree to this, and to confirm you’re 18 or over, when it first opens.
Does it need anything else installed?
No. FFmpeg and yt-dlp are inside the one file.
Where do the files go?
Into a captures folder beside the app, or any folder you choose in Settings.