Red

Overview

Red is a video platform client program, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: reminders and due dates, playlists.

File formats mentioned: MP4, MKV, WEBM, MP3, FLAC, OPUS, WAV and M4A.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

At a glance

Red is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

About

Red is a YouTube client for the Linux desktop: a native app to watch YouTube without ads, with a smart TV mode, a YouTube Music mode, SponsorBlock, media keys, a mini player and a built-in YouTube downloader. Sign in with your Google account and your subscriptions, history and recommendations work as on the website, in a lightweight window instead of a browser tab. Three ways to watch, one window: Desktop mode: the full YouTube website, signed in, in light, dark or system theme, with picture-in-picture style mini player TV mode: the YouTube Leanback interface from smart TVs and consoles, full screen, driven by keyboard, mouse or gamepad controller, ideal for a media center, living room PC or handheld Music mode: YouTube Music in the same window, a music player with media keys, tray and MPRIS controls, background play, and audio downloads one click away Watch without interruptions: Ad blocker built in: video ads, banners and sponsored feed items are removed before the page renders, and playback is never touched Tracker blocking, SponsorBlock to skip sponsor segments, intros and reminders, Return YouTube Dislike counts, and a switch to hide Shorts Download what you watch: YouTube video downloader for any video, playlist or channel, as MP4, MKV or WebM up to 4K YouTube to MP3: save audio only as MP3, M4A, Opus, FLAC or WAV for music Subtitles, thumbnail, metadata and chapters embedded; sponsor segments cut out on request Playlists detected from any link, entries picked one by one, a queue with pause, resume and retry Your YouTube sign-in is reused, so age-restricted videos and anything your account can watch download too Made for the desktop: Media keys and MPRIS media controls, a tray icon with play, pause and skip, the screen kept awake while a video plays Hardware video decoding, native Wayland and X11, notifications when a download finishes, single instance that opens YouTube links from the command line Red is a lightweight alternative to the browser tab, to Electron YouTube apps and to a separate downloader. Everything works on any Linux distribution.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)