Questions, answered.

Yes. No ads, no subscription, no paid version and nothing locked. Hazel is open source, and it's kept going by people who choose to support it.

Google doesn't allow apps that download from YouTube on the Play Store. Hazel is available from GitHub Releases and F-Droid instead. Those are the only official sources.

Any Android phone or tablet running Android 7 or newer. On GitHub, the file with arm64-v8a in its name suits almost every phone. The other files are for older or unusual devices.

More than a thousand, including YouTube, YouTube Music, Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, Facebook, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Vimeo and Twitch. The full list is here.

No. Hazel is made for Android only.

Yes. Hazel follows your phone's language and comes in ten languages. Change it in More, Language. Dark and light themes and the accent colour are in More, Appearance.

Open More, Software update. The first row checks for a new version of Hazel itself. If you installed from F-Droid, updates come through the F-Droid app instead.

Downloading needs a connection, but everything you have saved plays offline in any player. Converting a video you already have to audio works offline too.

In the download sheet, switch to the Audio tab before you tap Download. You can choose the format there, and Hazel adds the cover art and title for you.

Yes. Paste the playlist or channel link and tap Download all. You can still change the settings for any single item first. See Playlists in the guide.

Tap Share in the app you're watching in and pick Hazel. A download sheet opens right over that app, set to your usual quality. Tap Download and keep watching.

Yes. Tap Cut in the download sheet and choose the start and end on the preview.

Yes. They keep running in the background, and you can pause or cancel them from the notification. If your phone stops them anyway, allow unrestricted battery use in More, Background downloads.

Yes. Turn on Wi-Fi only in More, Downloads. Downloads then wait until you're on Wi-Fi. A download that has already started won't be cut off halfway.

Yes, from its very start. For a premiere that hasn't begun, Hazel can wait and download it as soon as it goes live.

Yes. Tap Subtitles in the download sheet and pick the languages. They can be added into the video, saved as separate files next to it, or both.

Wi-Fi only is turned on in More, Downloads, and you are on mobile data. The download starts by itself as soon as you are back on Wi-Fi, or you can turn the setting off.

Yes. More, Offline convert video to audio picks a video from your phone and saves the sound as an audio file. Nothing is uploaded; it all happens on your phone.

Music goes to Download/Hazel/Audio and video to Download/Hazel/Video, where any music or gallery app finds them. You can also open them from the library in Hazel.

Yes. Open More, Downloads, tap Audio or Video, and choose your SD card. Music and video can each go to a different place. Downloads going to the card also work on the card, so they don't fill up your phone along the way. See the guide for the steps.

Nothing is lost. Downloads that can't reach the card are saved to your phone instead, and Hazel tells you which files went where. Put the card back and new downloads go there again.

Open More, Temporary Files. It shows what's taking space, such as unfinished downloads, and clears it in a tap. Your saved music and videos are never touched.

Use More, Backup to save your settings, history, queue and sign-ins to a file. Copy the file to your new phone and restore it there. Your music and video files are copied like any other files.

Yes. Files are saved where those apps look, so music appears in your music player and videos in your gallery, usually within a few seconds.

The download sheet shows the size of each quality before you start, so you can pick a smaller one to save space.

Websites change often, and that can break downloads for a while. Open More, Software update and tap Check now. Switching to the Nightly channel gets fixes even sooner.

If it still fails, open the error and copy it into a report on GitHub.

Some videos are only visible when signed in. Open More, Cookies, sign in to the site there, and try again. Your sign-in stays on your phone and is only used for that site.

On a weak connection, open More, Link Reading and choose Thorough. It waits longer and retries more before giving up.

Check that no speed limit is set in More, Downloads. Turning on Refresh slow links there can help when a site slows a download down on purpose.

On GitHub Issues. Please read the contributing notes first, and include the error text if there is one.

No. There's no account, no analytics and no ads. Hazel has no servers of its own; your phone only talks to the sites you download from.

One exception you control: search suggestions, which are off by default, send what you type to Google to suggest searches.

Tap the ghost at the top right of the home screen. While it's on, downloads aren't added to your library and links and searches aren't remembered. The files still save as usual.

Only install Hazel from GitHub Releases or F-Droid. To double check, compare your app's signing certificate with the SHA-256 fingerprint on the home page, for example with the AppVerifier app. If it doesn't match, uninstall it.

That depends on where you live and what you download. Only save content you have the right to, and respect each site's terms.

Yes. Any app that can share a link can send it to Hazel. For developers, the package name is com.hazel.android.