Safari extension

The Video Tracker extension for Safari comes inside the Mac app from the site — there is no separate app “for Safari” and no App Store version. Install Video Tracker for Mac, and the extension is already in Safari.

Turn it on

You need Safari 18.4 or later — then Safari shows the extension without Allow Unsigned Extensions.

The Safari extension section in the app shows whether the extension is on or off; when you turn it on or off in Safari, the section shows it as soon as you come back to the app.

The panel on the page

Where: Chrome and Safari · Plan: Free and Pro

Safari has no side panel for extensions, so Video Tracker opens its panel on the right side of the page itself. It works like the Chrome panel:

• Found — the videos on the current tab; the panel follows the tab you switch to.
• Downloads — all the extension's downloads, with the number of active ones.
• The button shows the number of videos found on the tab.
• If the page was opened before the extension was turned on, the panel asks you to reload it.

Logins are Safari's own: sites you are signed in to in Safari are downloaded with your login. Signing in to your Video Tracker account opens in a new tab, which closes by itself after you confirm.

Where files go

Safari doesn't let an extension save files or choose a folder, so the finished file is written to the Downloads folder (~/Downloads) by the Video Tracker Mac app — a file of any size.

• While it is being written, the download shows Saving to Downloads… with a percentage, and the file in Downloads ends with “.part”. Done means the whole file is in Downloads under its own name.
• If the name is taken, the file is saved as “name (1).mp4” — no other file is overwritten.
• If you cancel or delete the download while it is saving, the unfinished “.part” file is removed.
• Not enough disk space — you see so; free up space and press Retry, what was downloaded stays. If the app didn't respond, there is Retry and the error details.

YouTube and similar sites

These sites need yt-dlp, which an extension can't run. On such a site, or on a video the extension can't download itself, the panel offers Open in the app (Needs Video Tracker for Mac): the Mac app opens the page with your browser logins and finds the video itself.

Limits

• No notifications: Safari extensions can't show them. The progress and the result are in Downloads in the panel.
• Downloads run while Safari is open. If you close it in the middle, the download is Paused next time, and Continue downloads the rest.
• Files always go to Downloads, without a subfolder.

Updates

The extension updates together with the Mac app: it is inside it, and Safari picks up the new version by itself. See Updates.