About

Small app. Big stash.

Stashy exists because saving a video shouldn't mean a website full of pop-ups, fake download buttons and "premium" upsells.

Made by H190K

H190K is an independent developer building small, focused tools that respect your time and your data. Stashy is one of them: a native-feeling Windows app that does one job, downloading videos and audio, quickly and without the junk.

Under the hood Stashy stands on yt-dlp, FFmpeg and Deno, some of the best open-source software there is, and wraps them in a window anyone can use.

Privacy

The short version: we don't collect anything.

The app

  • No telemetry, analytics or crash reporting. Stashy doesn't report what you download or how you use it.
  • No account. There's nothing to sign up for.
  • Your downloads stay on your PC, in the folder you choose. Your history is a file in Stashy's own folder and never leaves it.
  • Where it connects: to the sites whose links you paste, to download the video; to GitHub, to download and update yt-dlp, FFmpeg and Deno (and, when you update Stashy, its installer); and to this site's /update/latest.json to check for new versions. Like any web request, these reveal your IP address to those hosts; Stashy sends no identifiers of its own.
  • Browser cookies are optional and local. If you choose a browser under Settings → Browser cookies, yt-dlp reads that browser's cookies on your PC and sends them only to the site you're downloading from, exactly as your browser would.

This website

  • No cookies, no trackers, no analytics, no third-party fonts.
  • Feature requests: the form on the roadmap sends what you type (and your country, as reported by Cloudflare) privately to the developer's Discord. Nothing else is stored. It uses Cloudflare Turnstile, the only third-party script on the site and only on that page, to keep spam out.
  • The site is served by Cloudflare Pages, which may keep standard, short-lived request logs for security and reliability. The installer download is served from GitHub.

Questions about privacy? Get in touch via h190k.com.

Responsible use

Download what you're allowed to.

Stashy is a tool, like a browser or a screen recorder. Use it for content you own, content whose license allows downloading (such as Creative Commons videos), or content you have the rights holder's permission to save. Many sites' terms of service limit downloading, and copyright rules depend on your country. You're responsible for how you use Stashy.

  • No DRM circumvention. Stashy can't download DRM-protected content such as Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video or Spotify, and isn't meant to.
  • Only what you can already see. Private and members-only videos work only with your own browser login, and only if your account can watch them.

Credits

Built on great open source.

Stashy stands on the shoulders of these projects. Each keeps its own license; the license texts ship with the app (About → Licenses, or the licenses folder next to Stashy.exe).

  • Python — PSF License
  • Qt 6 & PySide6 — LGPL-3.0 (dynamically linked, replaceable)
  • yt-dlp — The Unlicense (public domain), downloaded from its official releases
  • FFmpeg — GPL build from yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds, downloaded from its official releases
  • Deno — MIT, downloaded from its official releases
  • Cairo and Lalezar fonts (Arabic interface) — SIL Open Font License 1.1
  • The setup wizard is built with Inno Setup, using its community Arabic translation

yt-dlp, FFmpeg and Deno aren't bundled inside Stashy; the installer and the app fetch their official builds. Thank you to every maintainer who makes tools like this possible.