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Varia

Varia is a download manager, available on Windows and Linux: playlists.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Varia is a download manager, available on Windows and Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and on its official website: playlists.

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
  • “Download manager that supports regular downloads, torrents and videos” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Download video and audio (as well as whole playlists) from thousands of websites (anything supported by yt-dlp) including YouTube, TikTok, Twitter etc” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

Its licence (MPL-2.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Varia is better than your browser at downloading stuff. Supporting videos and torrents on top of just regular files, and with a variety of advanced features wrapped inside an easy to understand interface, Varia is both quite powerful and dead simple to use: Download anything you want quickly - potentially faster than your browser, continue incomplete downloads even after reboots Download video and audio (as well as whole playlists) from thousands of websites (anything supported by yt-dlp) including YouTube, TikTok, Twitter etc Integrate with Firefox and Chrome (or any Chromium based browser like Brave or Opera) to redirect downloads Schedule downloads with a powerful scheduler function allowing for custom timespans for each day of the week Download from protected areas with basic auth and cookies.txt import support, as well as an option to automatically transfer your browser cookies through the extension Control a remote aria2 instance running on any server through Remote Mode

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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