Windows desktop app · version 3.0.1

Your local video library, on Windows.

Point it at your folders and everything plays, organised, searchable, and out of the way until you need it.

Download installer Adds shortcuts and firewall rules. Recommended Portable version Unzip and run. No install, no admin prompt. No admin
Windows 10 or newer 64-bit

What it does

What PDEA does.

Everything listed here ships in version 3.0.1. Nothing is planned or in progress.

Play

  • Add folders to your library, see them in the sidebar and play them
  • Plays MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV and WebM
  • Play, pause, skip forward and back
  • Step forward or back one frame at a time
  • Speed control
  • Play the next video, or preview it
  • Hold the spacebar to play at a different speed while you hold it
  • Loop a video
  • Sound control
  • Cinema mode
  • A sidebar for your library

Ambiance

  • Play songs you already have, on loop
  • Mix and match several at once
  • A volume slider for each one
  • A master volume for all of them

Download

  • Needs an add-on such as yt-dlp installed
  • Direct — give it a link, get the best quality available
  • Simple — pick the quality from a dropdown
  • Advanced — choose the video format, the audio format and the language
  • Playlist — download a whole playlist
  • Pause, resume and cancel while it downloads

Bookmarks

  • Save the web address of any video
  • Keep them in categories

Subscriptions

  • Enter a source link
  • When a new video is out it downloads itself, or waits for you
  • In the quality you prefer

Find

  • Search your videos fast
  • A ranking algorithm puts the best match at the top
  • Beats the search Windows already gives you

Private area

  • Opens only with a passcode
  • Locks itself again when the timer runs out
  • One click to lock it again straight away
  • Nothing in here is visible anywhere else in the app

Built-in browser

  • A browser built into the app

Downloads

Every version.

Each row downloads that exact version, not the newest one. Open a row to see what is in it.

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Older builds are on the releases page. Upgrading keeps your library and your locked folders.

Before you install

What you need.

Operating system
Windows 10 or newer
Architecture
64-bit (x64)
Download size
279 MB installer, 382 MB portable
Disk once installed
About 1 GB, plus your videos

Not on a 64-bit PC? Take the portable version instead. It installs nothing.