Send a video from your phone.
Your PC downloads it.

You find something on your phone. The video belongs on the computer — the big screen, the drive with room on it, the folder everything else lives in. So you email yourself the link, or message it to yourself, and later you remember to go and fetch it. Usually you don't.

Riplox has a postbox instead. Share the link from your phone the way you share anything else and it goes into a queue. If the PC is on, the download starts within seconds. If the PC is off, asleep, or in another city, the link waits — and the moment Riplox is running again, everything that piled up downloads at once. Share eleven videos overnight and eleven files are waiting in the morning.

This is worth being precise about, because most tools that claim to connect a phone and a PC need both ends awake, on the same Wi-Fi, and able to find each other. Riplox needs none of that. There is no discovery step, no network to join, and nothing to leave open. The link is encrypted on your phone and only your PC can read it — the relay in between carries a sealed envelope and cannot open it. See how this compares with MeTube and the other ways of doing it.

And when you are on the same Wi-Fi, it does not use the relay at all. Riplox does not need both ends on one network — that is the point of everything above — but when they happen to be, the link goes straight from your phone to your PC and never leaves the building. You do nothing to arrange it: there is no address to type, no network to set up, nothing to switch on. Your PC quietly mentions where it is inside the same sealed reply it already sends, so a laptop that moves between home and work sorts itself out on the next share. Riplox marks those shares on your network when they arrive, so it is something you can see rather than something we tell you.

From the browser you are already in

Most of the time the video is in a tab in front of you and the phone has nothing to do with it. For that, Riplox watches the clipboard: copy a link from the address bar and press Ctrl+Shift+D, and it is queued without switching windows. If another program already owns those keys, Riplox takes a free pair instead and shows you which — or you can set your own. There is nothing to install and nothing to switch on — it works from the moment Riplox is running. If another program has already claimed those keys, Riplox takes a different pair and shows you which one in Settings, rather than leaving you pressing keys that do nothing.

There is also a browser extension, for people who want more than that: a right-click menu that sends a link you have not opened, an MP3 option that saves changing the quality first, and a small badge showing how many downloads are running. It is on the Chrome Web Store, so adding it is one click: get the Riplox extension. Riplox has a Browser extension button in its sidebar that opens the same page, and a copy still ships with the app for anyone whose browser has no store. It is genuinely optional — the shortcut above covers what most people need, and we would rather say that than pretend a second install is required.

The extension never touches a video. It reads the address of the page you are on and hands that to Riplox, which does the downloading. That is why it asks for almost no permissions, and why it cannot see anything on a page it was not pointed at.

What you need

A 64-bit Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC. That is the whole list. Riplox installs for your user account, so it never asks for administrator rights, and there is no server, no subscription and no account of any kind. Older Windows is not supported, and setup says so plainly rather than installing something that cannot start.

What it does not do

It does not upload anything about you, show ads, or bundle a second program with the installer — the one thing that ever leaves for a server of ours is a link you deliberately post to the Board, and the privacy policy says exactly what goes with it. It does not download anything on its own unless you have switched that on: following a channel notifies you and waits, and the automatic option is off until you turn it on, capped when you do. It will not get past a paywall or reach a private video your own account cannot see, and it is not a torrent client or a general file downloader. Those are deliberate gaps, not missing features.

Instagram and TikTok on the PC

Riplox Desktop takes Instagram and TikTok links alongside everything else, so there is no need for a separate Instagram video downloader for PC or a second app for TikTok. The two Android apps exist for the phone, where a share sheet beats copying a link. On Windows, one app covers all of it.

Following: new uploads without watching for them

Follow a channel or a playlist and Riplox checks it for you, reading the channel's own feed rather than scraping the page — so checks are cheap and can run as often as every fifteen minutes. New uploads appear in a list. If you want them fetched without being asked, that is opt-in, capped, and off until you turn it on. Each channel can carry its own quality, folder and title rules, and the whole list exports and imports.

A folder anything on your PC can drop links into

Switch it on and Riplox watches a folder you choose. Write a file of links into it — one per line, or JSON if something is writing it for you — and they are queued. That is the whole thing, and it exists because every other way in needs Riplox itself: the window, the clipboard, the extension, a paired phone. A script, a scheduled task or another program has none of those, and writing a file is the one thing all of them can already do.

Files it has read are renamed, never deleted: .done when the links were taken, or .bad with the reason written above what was in it. It is off until you turn it on.