Hello!

This project began as a fun vibe coding Swift app for Mac, but it quickly evolved into a comprehensive learning experience as I aimed to make it cross-platform.

I completely revamped the application from scratch, this time using Rust and Tuari. It was quite a journey, but I’m excited to share the first stable version with you!

Additionally, there’s Firefox and Chromium extension available for integration, which you can find on the GitHub page.

Features

• Fast segmented downloads powered by aria2 with configurable connections, retries, and speed limits.
• Media extraction with yt-dlp, FFmpeg, and Deno for video/audio links and richer format selection.
• A real Add window for manual, extension-captured, and media downloads, including metadata, duplicate handling, and save-location choices before downloads start.
• Persistent queue management with safe concurrency limits, pause/resume, retry, redownload, sorting, multi-select, and bulk controls.
• Download scheduling with start/stop windows, speed-limiter tools, and optional post-queue actions.
• Smart organization through categories, default folders, per-download overrides, and open/reveal/trash actions.
• Private browser handoff through authenticated local pairing with replay protection and desktop-server proof checks.
• Native desktop integration including tray controls, notifications, completion sounds, sleep prevention, and OS keychain support where available.
• Diagnostics built in with engine health checks, structured logs, and packaged-engine verification.
• Firefox and Chromium Extension:
  • Automatic download capture for ordinary browser downloads.
  • Media fetch from the extension popup or page context menu.
  • Context-menu actions for single links and selected text containing links.

Credits to Aria2, yt-dlp, FFmpeg, and Deno projects and their contributors that made this possible.

Firelink release page: https://github.com/nimbold/Firelink/

Firefox-Extension: https://github.com/nimbold/Firelink-Extension