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Ridm

Ridm is a powerful, open-source media download manager supporting 9 languages.

  • Free, with trade-offs
  • Android
  • Open source

Overview

Ridm is a download manager, available on Android.

Features described in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: playlists and subtitles.

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

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Ridm is a powerful, open-source media download manager supporting 9 languages” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Advanced Format Selection: Selecting "Best Quality" in format options for Playlist and Channel downloads fetches the highest resolution and quality videos from the source server.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Audio and Subtitle Support: MP3, M4A, and Opus formats only download audio files.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Ridm is free, with trade-offs: it relies on a non-free online service.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

Weaknesses

  • Flagged by F-Droid: relies on a non-free online service

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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