WhaleDown for Desktop 2025.07.1
We're excited to release WhaleDown 2025.07.1. This release brings some important bug fixes.
What's new
We've added Subtitle Preferences section in Downloader Settings. You can set the language of the subtitles you want to download in advance.
When the visited website (e.g. arte.tv) is supported, WhaleDown will download the subtitles at the same time as the video is downloaded.
The download will fail when the site is not supported, or there are no subtitles in the corresponding language.
Bug fixes
1. Unable to load extension
Some users feedbacks that Chrome was unable to load the WhaleDown extension. Our developer investigation revealed that Chrome 137 removed the 'load-extension' command line flag. All users using Chrome 137+ are affected by this bug.
We fixed this bug with a few tricks. Now you can go ahead and download DRM-protected videos. In the future, we'll look at other ways to load browser extensions.
2. Video loss bug
Some users have reported that when they download videos from websites like Vimeo, there are audios only. This bug is caused by malformed data. This annoying bug was easily fixed by our developers.
We're now pushing an update with additional bug fixes to all users. We strongly recommend that you update to the current version 2025.07.1.