Changelog
Black Hole A2Z release history
Android is on 1.4.0 and Windows is on 1.1.0. The two builds are separate programs and version independently. Only releases that actually shipped are listed, with the changes that were actually made.
Android
Version 1.4.0
2 September 2026
Current
- A link shared into the app no longer starts downloading by itself. The app reads it and lays out every quality it found, and the download starts when one is tapped.
- On TikTok and Douyin that list is also where the without-watermark copy lives, so it is now always visible instead of being silently picked past.
- Picture and sound now download at the same time instead of one after the other, which cuts a noticeable slice off every YouTube save.
- The piece-by-piece download path now keeps three requests in the air at once, so it no longer spends most of its time waiting on round trips.
Version 1.3.3
29 August 2026
- YouTube downloads are fast again. YouTube had been trickling whole-file requests out at a crawl, so the app now asks for each file in pieces, which it answers at full speed.
Version 1.3.2
20 August 2026
- YouTube downloads work again, including the videos the two releases before this one could not finish.
- The cause was narrower than it looked: YouTube had started serving only the opening megabyte of a file to the identity the app was using, so a download stopped part way with a refusal. The app now asks under an identity that is still served in full.
- Three further identities are kept in reserve and tried in turn, so the next time one of them falls out of favour the app moves on by itself.
- Verified by downloading complete files, including a 116 MB video, rather than checking that a download merely starts.
Version 1.3.1
20 August 2026
- Fixed YouTube downloads for good. The previous release treated the wrong cause: YouTube has begun refusing any request for a whole file, so the app now asks for it a megabyte at a time.
- The app also identifies itself as a phone rather than a headset, which is the identity YouTube is currently willing to serve complete files to.
- Added a line to the home screen saying where to get a fix when a site changes, because these repairs arrive as a new build rather than by themselves.
Version 1.3.0
20 August 2026
- Fixed YouTube downloads failing with a refusal from the server. YouTube has begun turning down the single combined file on many videos, and that was the first thing the app asked for.
- Picture and sound are now taken separately and joined, which is also what raises the default quality to 1080p where the video has it.
- Videos that were only ever published below 360p, which previously had no working option at all, download again.
- A refused link is now fetched again automatically instead of asking anyone to press Fetch a second time.
- The failure message now names the real cause: these links are tied to the connection that requested them, so a phone switching between mobile masts can lose one mid-download.
Version 1.2.2
15 August 2026
- Saved files now go straight into the device gallery, in an album of their own, instead of staying in the app's private folder.
- Fixed a naming fault that stopped single-file saves reaching the gallery at all.
- Added a Save to gallery control for anything that did not make it across, including files saved by earlier versions.
- Removed the share sheet fallback from the open action, which turned opening a file into a manual save.
- Stopped an unnecessary permission prompt from blocking saves on Android 10 and newer, where the permission is not required.
Version 1.2.1
15 August 2026
- Fixed a fault where requests sent from the app lost part of their session details on Android, which made some sources fail on the phone while working elsewhere.
- Restored the build settings that keep the download around 20MB.
- Error messages now say which stage failed instead of reporting everything as unavailable.
Version 1.2.0
15 August 2026
- Added support for further sources.
- Improved quality selection so higher resolutions are offered with sound where the source provides them separately.
- In-app update checking, so new versions can be installed without hunting for a link.
Version 1.1.0
15 August 2026
- Reworked saving to write through the system media store, so files appear where other apps can find them.
- Accepting a link shared from another app, rather than requiring it to be pasted.
Version 1.0.0
13 August 2026
- First release.
Windows
Version 1.1.0
2 September 2026
Current
- Fixed YouTube fetches dying over time. The downloader ships inside Program Files, where Windows quietly refuses writes, so its background self-update never actually ran and the bundled copy went stale until YouTube changed its signing and every fetch failed. The downloader now lives in the user's own data folder, where keeping itself current is allowed.
- 4K and 2K are now offered whenever the video has them; the menu previously stopped at 1080p.
- TikTok and Douyin links now lead with a Without watermark choice, next to the stamped copy, both taken from the files the platforms themselves serve.
- Fragmented downloads now fetch eight pieces at once, which is the difference between a trickle and a full connection on YouTube.
Version 1.0.0
13 August 2026
- First Windows release.
- Reads a link and shows what it contains, including the title, the uploader, the length and the quality options actually available, before anything is downloaded.
- Remembers a download folder of your choosing and opens it when a file finishes.
- Joins separate picture and sound streams into one file where ffmpeg is present on the machine, and offers only the single-file qualities where it is not, rather than failing partway through.
- Progress reported as real figures, with a working cancel.
Versions between those listed were small fixes not worth a separate entry. The Android app checks for updates itself, so there is normally no need to return here to stay current on a phone. The Windows build does not check yet, so new desktop versions are announced here. About the app.