Install on a Mac
Download Video Tracker for Mac from the site, allow access to your browser logins, turn on notifications and the Safari extension.
The Mac app comes only from the site, not from the App Store: the App Store does not allow the tools Video Tracker uses for YouTube and similar sites. So the Mac app is the full version — it downloads from every supported site, YouTube included. Everything it needs is already inside: install it and it works.
Download and install
You need macOS 14 or later.
Open the Download section of the site and press Download for Mac.
Open the downloaded file and drag Video Tracker to the Applications folder.
Open Video Tracker from Applications. The app is signed by the developer and checked by Apple, so macOS opens it without extra warnings.
Keep the app in Applications: from another folder Video Tracker can't replace itself with a new version and asks you to move it.
First launch
The app opens with its built-in browser. Open a page with a video — it shows up in Found on this page. Downloaded files go to Downloads › Video Tracker by default; another folder can be chosen in the settings. Signing in is not needed to download: an account is only for Pro and the cloud.
Permissions
Video Tracker asks only for what a feature needs, explains why, and has a button straight to the right place in System Settings. When you allow it, the app picks it up without a restart.
Logins of your browser
The built-in browser works on the profile of your own browser: courses and cinemas you are signed in to in Chrome or Safari open signed in. The browser and profile are chosen in Settings › Browser & Logins.
- Chrome, Edge, Brave and other Chromium browsers: the first time, macOS asks for access to the browser's “Safe Storage” keychain item — choose Always Allow. If you denied it, the panel says so: press Try again and allow it.
- Safari keeps its logins in a protected folder, so Video Tracker needs Full Disk Access. macOS does not show a request for this access — only you can turn it on:
When you choose Safari for logins, press Open System Settings — the Full Disk Access section opens.
Switch on Video Tracker (or add it with +; Show the app in Finder helps to find it), then choose Quit & Reopen.
Back in the app, the Safari profile is read again and the page reloads by itself.
Notifications
Notifications on completion and errors are on by default: macOS shows Download complete or Download failed. If they don't appear, allow notifications for Video Tracker in System Settings › Notifications.
The Safari extension
The Safari extension comes inside the Mac app — there is no separate app “for Safari”. Turn it on in Safari › Settings › Extensions; the steps and the Open Safari Extensions settings button are in the app's settings, in Safari extension. More: Safari extension.
Updates
Video Tracker asks the site for a new version at launch and every few hours. When there is one, you see Version … is available with What's new and the buttons Update, Later and Update automatically. Update downloads the new version, checks that it comes from the same developer, puts it in place of the old one and restarts Video Tracker — right away, or when you quit it if downloads are running.
The download tool for YouTube (yt-dlp) updates by itself, without reinstalling the app. More: Updates.
The version and edition are in Settings › About: “Video Tracker 1.0.42 (Full)”.