Why it works
There's no link to paste. Firedown isn't a converter site. It's a real browser, built on Firefox's GeckoView engine with uBlock Origin inside, so ads and trackers are blocked before they load. Pages load with their own cookies, players and logins, and whatever they play, Firedown catches. That's why it works where paste-a-link tools fail.
What it saves
YouTube up to 4K, with background audio, screen off, no Premium. Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, Facebook, X, Reddit, Kick, Rumble, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Telegram, and direct hosts like Mega. If it isn't DRM-protected, it saves.
A finished download can go straight to another phone, end-to-end encrypted over WebRTC with nothing stored on a server, or into a private vault behind your PIN or fingerprint, invisible to every other app.
Can't, not won't
There is no telemetry and no account. Downloads move from the site to your phone with no server of ours in between, so we can't see what you browse, can't read your backups or bookmarks (encrypted on your phone before they leave it), and can't hand over what was never collected. What our server does see: how big your encrypted files are and when they arrived.
Bookmark sync is free. Encrypted backup for your downloads is the one paid thing in the app. Both are off by default, keyed by a recovery code only you hold. Lose it and the data is gone for good, for everyone including us. The full picture is on the security page, and every claim maps to a file in the public source. Already using Cloud Backup? Open it in this browser.
Install
Not on the Play Store. Install from Zapstore, F-Droid, Obtainium, or the APK below. Every build is signed with the same key and verifiable against our GitHub releases. Android phones only.