Downloader - Video Downloader

Review by eFreeware

Downloader is a free Android app from Leap Fitness Group, filed under video players and editors. Its job is narrow and clear: it pulls video and other files off social sites and the wider web and stores them on your phone, so you can watch or open them later without going back online.

The reason to consider it is the combination of a browser and a download manager in one place. You browse to a video inside the app, it recognizes the file and takes it from there, or you paste a link and let the app handle the rest. The install base is large, over 100 million, with a 4.7 average from a very high number of ratings, which tells you this is a well-worn path rather than an experimental one.

It has been on the Play Store since July 2019 and was last updated in September 2026. The app is free, shows ads, and offers in-app purchases.

Saving clips from social sites

The central use case is social video. The app is built to download clips from social platforms, and it handles HD quality rather than only low-resolution copies. The app is built around speed and a single-click process, and the design points toward a quick tap-and-wait flow rather than a long setup each time.

The built-in browser is one route: you navigate to the site, play the video, and the app detects it and starts the download.

What appeals to me here is that the app doesn't assume you only want video. The format list includes audio files like MP3 and M4A, video formats such as MP4, M4V, MOV, AVI and WMV, and document types including DOC, XLS, PDF and TXT. That broadens it from a video grabber into a general file fetcher, which is a useful thing to have on a phone.

Managing several downloads at once

The download manager is where the app earns its keep for anyone who saves files regularly. It can run multiple downloads at the same time, handle large files, keep working in the background, and resume a download that failed partway through. Those are the features that matter when you're pulling something big or when your connection drops mid-transfer.

You can pause, delete and share downloads, and there's a download bar to check progress. The developer describes the app as allowing downloads with no limitation, which is the kind of claim I'd take as a statement of intent rather than a guarantee. In practice, the useful part is the control: you decide what stays, what goes, and what gets sent on to someone else.

There's also support for saving files to an SD card. For phones with limited internal storage, that's a meaningful option, since video files add up quickly. Between the manager, the SD card support and the format range, the app is doing more than a simple save-button would.

Watching and reading what you saved

Once a file is on the device, the built-in player handles video playback offline. That closes the loop: download on Wi-Fi, watch later without needing a connection for the clip itself. It's the natural pairing for a downloader, and it saves you from hunting for a separate player app for the files this one produces.

The browser side is also described as private, with the developer saying it lets you browse without leaving traces. I'd treat that as a feature claim rather than an audited privacy guarantee, but the intent is clear.

You can bookmark favorite websites too, which is a small convenience that makes repeated use less tedious. If you regularly pull clips from the same few places, having them saved inside the app beats retyping addresses every time.

Photos, images and other files

The app isn't limited to video. The app also downloads images and photos from different apps, so the same tool can fetch stills as well as clips. For anyone who collects reference images, saves photos from social feeds, or wants a copy of something before it disappears from a timeline, that's a practical extension.

Combined with the document formats, this makes the app a general-purpose saver. A PDF, a spreadsheet or a text file can come down the same pipe as a video. That's the kind of flexibility that makes an app worth keeping installed rather than deleting after one job.

The trade-off is that a tool doing many things can feel less focused than a single-purpose one. What you get in return is one place to manage everything you've pulled down, with the same pause, resume and share controls applying across file types.

What you need to get going

Setup is minimal by the sound of it. You open the app, use the built-in browser to find a video, or paste a link you already have. Nothing suggests a complicated onboarding process. The app detects the video and begins the download.

The main practical requirement is storage. Video files take up space, and the app's support for SD cards exists precisely because internal storage fills up. If you plan to download large files or HD video, it's worth thinking about where those files will live before you start.

The app is free to install, supported by ads, and offers in-app purchases. Those are the terms, and they're worth knowing before you commit to using it as your main download tool.

Who this suits

This app fits people who save video and files from social sites regularly and want the process to be quick and repeatable. If you find yourself sending yourself links to watch later, or wanting offline copies of clips for a flight or a commute without signal, a downloader with a built-in player covers that need in one install.

It also suits anyone who deals with a mix of file types. The format list runs from audio and video through to PDFs and spreadsheets, so if you download documents as well as clips, you're not switching between apps. The SD card support helps if your phone's internal storage is tight.

The app is less obviously aimed at people who only occasionally need to save a single clip. For that, the ads and the extra features may feel like more than you need. But for anyone who downloads often, the manager, the player and the format range make a reasonable case for keeping it around.

A capable saver for regular downloaders

Downloader does one job well: it moves files from the web onto your phone with a minimum of fuss, and then helps you manage them. The built-in browser, the paste-a-link option, the download manager with pause and resume, the offline player and the SD card support form a coherent set of tools rather than a pile of disconnected features.

The caveats are straightforward. It's free with ads, it offers in-app purchases, and the developer's claims about speed and unlimited downloading are marketing rather than measured facts. The format range and the manager are the parts I'd weigh most heavily, since those are concrete and useful regardless of how fast any individual download turns out to be.

If you download video and other files from social sites often enough that you want a dedicated tool, this is a sensible thing to try. If you need to grab a clip once in a while, the ads and the breadth of features may be more than the task requires.