Reviews for Ant Video Downloader
Ant Video Downloader by ANT
1,882 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14093081, 3 years agoUPDATE 2-16-2022
It's broken again. Please fix!
Does exactly what it's supposed to do. A clean install fixed the memory leak issue.
*SOLVED*
Used to be amazing, but now has a serious bug that maxes out your CPU and RAM usage. Be careful with this one.Developer response
posted 3 years agoInstall the latest version 4.12, update Native app, perform reset of the extension (at Settings - Reset).
Check if you have enabled option "Try to process ciphered URLs" at Settings - Video detection - YouTube. It may hang the extension (but not the browser) for a while.
Contact support and provide more information on your issue.
Thank you. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16817728, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13425481, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by BluTGI, 3 years agoThis add-on is still the best at what it does. When Down-Them-All failed, it's the only thing that's worked.
Please, next time, don't release a new rebuild of your work before major holidays. Wait, test it some more, then drop it when you can fix it.
Love the work, thanks for the fix! Updated 1/8/22Developer response
posted 3 years agoThank you for your report and rating.
Well, we write that developers are working on a fix because it is really it is, what else can we write? The new version is already released.
Releasing before or after holidays won't make much difference, because making a fix will take days to develop and test.
Will be appreciated for more feedbacks from you, thanks again. - Rated 5 out of 5by Alex Gor, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by parkj, 3 years agoI'm not sure what happened to my go-to video downloader after this "update". It shows every type of media for download in a cluttered UI and the list of issues goes on and on.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoOur developers already working on the new update with various fixes.
We are sorry for any inconvenience caused and hope for your understanding. - Rated 1 out of 5by Astranamata, 3 years agoΔούλευε μια χαρά, ώσπου πρόσφατα σταμάτησε να δουλεύει και προτρέπει να κατεβάσω ένα πρόγραμμα - όχι πρόσθετο αλλά εξωτερικό - και να το τρέξω.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoPlease note that AVD requires an additional companion application from earlier 3.x versions.
In case of any problems with downloading please contact with more details to our support here: https://www.ant.com/support_form - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16533722, 3 years agoUp until a few days ago before it was updated, this was the go-to downloader fo me. Now it takes forever (up to 5-10 minutes for the videos to be detected) and there is no button to clear the cache. It still lists downloads on sites from several week ago which totally clutters the video list. I've had to remove the add-on and reload it to try to clear this annoying cache memory.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoPlease note that Clear List button was added to the All Videos page in 4.11 update.
Our developers already working on the new update with fix for history of detected videos.
We are sorry for any inconvenience caused and hope for your understanding. - Rated 1 out of 5by zks777, 3 years ago2021-01-03 This "NEW" version is AWFUL!!! Bring back the prior one which actually worked and was VERY USER FRIENDLY, unlike this garbage!!!!
Developer response
posted 3 years agoOur developers already working on the new update with various fixes.
We are sorry for any inconvenience caused and hope for your understanding. - Rated 1 out of 5by mardoc, 3 years agoit used to be a great app - since last update - uberjunk - uninstalling it... it is soooo slow now, UI is messy, you can only see a small white line and the whole browser is dead slow, worst update in software history, they took an amazing plugin and turned it into an unusable service. bravo.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoPlease note that in case of a big amount of detected video the popup may need some time to load.
Our developers already working on the new update for this issue.
We are sorry for any inconvenience caused and hope for your understanding. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17210126, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15657721, 3 years agoone of the best video downloader ever, grat job guys keep going
- Rated 1 out of 5by Joshua, 3 years agoWhat once was great with release 4.9, is now 100% junk with version 4.10. Instead of just listing vids, downloading/downloaded it now logs every vid that runs on any web or social media site. There are better, easier, to use, down-loaders for YouTube, Twitter, Facebook ect..., than Ant. Just wait until you try to delete or clear the Ant list. What fun that is. IMO, ANT is nothing more than another form of spy/tracking ware. I have dumped it and will not go back to it after reloading version 4.9. that now runs with the newer junk as well.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoOur developers already working on the new update with various fixes.
We are sorry for any inconvenience caused and hope for your understanding. - Rated 1 out of 5by kt, 3 years agoRecent end of 2021 updates - super slow, messy User interface, lag, not showing display well, tabs not displaying, slowing down everything. gosh. so bad. uninstalling. It used to be fine, simple, efficient, bbut what the hell are with the recent updates. If its not bbroken, dont change it.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoOur developers already working on the new update with various fixes.
We are sorry for any inconvenience caused and hope for your understanding. - Rated 1 out of 5by bv, 3 years agoI totally agree with some of the comments posted by other users :
Worst update ever...
There is not just 1 problem, there are many.
The popup to start the download only appears as a small white line, downloads simply stall, the list of videos grows and grows and cannot be reduced in size.
It used to be great, but now it is a mess...
Please, in the next update, go back to a simplified and user-friendly version !Developer response
posted 3 years agoOur developers already working on the new update with various fixes.
We are sorry for any inconvenience caused and hope for your understanding. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12619997, 3 years agoWorst update ever...
There is not just 1 problem, there are many.
The popup to start the download only appears as a small white line, downloads simply stall, the list of videos grows and grows and cannot be reduced in size. (Why can't I turn this off), deleting does not work, the browser now always needs 1 complete CPU (with me about 12% CPU load), the video lists for download do not update, the UI remains, although the download probably continues in the background goes, the new UI is terribly confusing. I have to click 20 times before I get the list of the latest downloads. (This is actually the only list I need, the others are superfluous) ...Developer response
posted 3 years agoWe will forward report to our developers.
We are sorry that you are facing these problems after the update. - Rated 1 out of 5by Private Use, 3 years agoEvery "update" of FireFox Ant just gets worse and worse.
The 1st update caused download speeds to slow 90%.
Then another update caused the downloads folder to show the wrong location.
Yet another update caused a video list to appear on a tab that had *NO* videos on it.
Then another update caused a ton of .txt files to appear as if they *ARE* videos.
The current update displays the file names and size with the ends all chopped off.
And everything locks up until the Windows Desktop is refreshed/rebuilt.
100% CPU load from FireFox.
Ugh.
What is going on with this big mess? Are you doing 0 testing and just randomly
releasing code that can't possibly ever work?Developer response
posted 3 years agoOur developers already working on the new update with various fixes.
We are sorry for any inconvenience caused and hope for your understanding. - Rated 1 out of 5by Vescovo, 3 years agoLast update is unusable, buggy, unbelievable, useless UI; please revert!!! Do you try to use new versions before deploy it??? Seems not...
Anyone knows another good video downloader?Developer response
posted 3 years agoOur developers already working on the new update with various fixes.
We are sorry for any inconvenience caused and hope for your understanding. - Rated 1 out of 5by rsnunez, 3 years agoIt used to be great, but now it is a mess... there is no way to clear the list. I have more than a 1K videos detected for downloading and no way to delete them. The delete and hard reset options never do their job... A real mess...
Developer response
posted 3 years agoMake sure you're not confusing Proceed button with Cancel, like many users do. Anyway, the new version is going to be released soon. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13793349, 3 years agoI'd rate this 5 but when this add on gets laggier the more videos I download. Often times when I click the add on icon, the download panel doesn't show up until over 10 minutes later.. it's just ridiculously laggy. Plus on the add on tab, filter by tab is pretty much useless since the tabs title isn't even there, instead it's just some numbers. How am I supposed to figure out which tab is it.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoThose aren't some numbers, those are tab identifiers, assigned by the web browser. We can add title to each tab in the list, but title is constantly changing, and soon will become irrelevant to those videos that were detected. Note that there is a small button 'Switch to tab' that switches to the tab, on which videos were detected.
We're rolling out version 4.12 on the next week, where All videos page is going to function like the old Downloads page. Hope you'll like it and will yet rate us with 5 stars :-) - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16308997, 3 years agoIt is a mess till last update. Best Downloader before, unusable now.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoPlease contact with more details about your problem and your comments to our support here: https://www.ant.com/support_form - Rated 2 out of 5by newdri, 3 years agoApos a atualização, temos que instalar um aplicativo que, segundo o antivirus, e espião
Developer response
posted 3 years agoPlease note that AVD requires an additional companion application from earlier 3.x versions.
Our installer is tested for viruses and signed with a Code Signing Certificate, please check your antivirus or download Native Application only from our servers. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13769106, 3 years agoWas a nice little add-on in the past -- streamlined and fast. Now it's bloatware that crashes firefox and causes massive memory leaks. Some genius decided to mess with something that didn't need to be messed with. Pity.
**UPDATE
Useless developers are now telling users to reset the add-on when the massive memory leak occurs and assume this is actually a fix. Laughable. Devs, you need to trash this update and go BACK to the old version pronto.Developer response
posted 3 years agoOur developers already working on the fix for this issue.
We are sorry for any inconvenience caused and hope for your understanding. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14494823, 3 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 17198861, 3 years ago