Updates

The apps and extensions learn about new versions from the Video Tracker server: at launch, when you come back to the app (at most once an hour) and every few hours while it is open. If the server can't be reached, everything works as usual.

A new version is out

Where: Mac, Android, Chrome, and Safari · Plan: Free and Pro

You see Version 1.0.42 is available with What's new and three buttons:

• Update — install it now (see below for each device).
• Later — don't remind me again until the next version.
• Update automatically — turns on the setting and updates right away.

What Update does

• Mac: the app downloads the new version, checks that it is intact and comes from the same developer, puts it in place of the old one and restarts. If downloads are running, it installs when you quit Video Tracker.

• Safari: the extension is inside the Mac app and updates together with it — Safari picks up the new version by itself.

• Android from Google Play: the update downloads in the background through Google Play, then Restart and update.

• Android from RuStore: Update opens the app's page in RuStore, and RuStore installs the new version.

• Android, the file from the site: the app downloads the new version, checks it and opens the installation — Android asks you to confirm. The first time, Android asks you to allow Video Tracker to install updates: turn on Allow from this source and come back, the update continues by itself.

• Chrome: the extension asks the Chrome Web Store for the update and restarts once no downloads are running. The browser also updates extensions by itself.

• Your account on the site: it is a web page — the new version comes when you reload it.

The update is ready (Android, file from the site)

When the new version has downloaded in the background, you see The update is ready with Later and Install. After Install — Installing the update…, then Android asks you to confirm. Cancel in Android's question brings back The update is ready. If the downloaded file is gone (Android cleared it), it downloads again with progress. If something fails, you see a clear error with the details, not silence.

Updating automatically

Where: Mac, Android, and Chrome · Plan: Free and Pro

Update Video Tracker automatically in the settings is off by default. Turned on, new versions download and install by themselves; where the system asks (Android), you confirm the installation.

Required update

Sometimes an old version stops working with the server. Then the app is covered by the screen This version of Video Tracker is no longer supported — “Update Video Tracker to continue. Your downloaded files stay where they are.” — with one button, Update. It works the same way as above; on Android from Google Play the update starts immediately. The screen stays even without a network until a new enough version is installed.

The download tool for YouTube

Where: Mac and Android · Plan: Free and Pro

YouTube and similar sites change often, and without a fresh version of the download tool (yt-dlp) they stop downloading. That's why the Mac app and the Android version from the site update yt-dlp by themselves, without reinstalling the app:

• When the Video Tracker server announces a new version, the app downloads it, checks it and installs it — only inside the app, the system is not touched. If the file doesn't match, the previous version stays. The server holds back a new version if it turns out broken.
• If the app couldn't install it itself, the Updates section of the settings shows, for example, “yt-dlp: 2025.11.12 → 2026.10.21” with Update, and you get the Updates available notification.
• On Android, a download from YouTube first updates yt-dlp if a new version is known but not yet installed.

• On a Mac, if yt-dlp is your own (a path set in Tools), the app shows the command to update it with. The other built-in tools update together with the app.

There is no yt-dlp in the Chrome extension or the Safari extension: everything there is built in and updates only with a new version.

Check for updates

Check for updates in the Updates section of the settings is on by default. Turned off, the app doesn't check for or install yt-dlp by itself; Check now still works. New versions of Video Tracker itself are still checked, and the required-update screen still works.

YouTube stopped downloading

The versions from the stores and the Chrome extension don't download from YouTube at all — that is a store rule, not an outdated version. For YouTube on Android install the version from the site. In the Mac app or the Android version from the site:

1. Open the Updates section of the settings and press Check now; if yt-dlp has a new version, press Update.
2. If the download failed with HTTP 403 or the site asks you to sign in, the hint under the error says what to do: update yt-dlp, sign in to the site in the built-in browser and try again.
3. If the search on the page failed and a newer yt-dlp is available, Found on this page suggests updating it and searching again.
4. Update Video Tracker itself if a new version is out.

Still doesn't work — report a problem from the app.