Flatsonar

Varia

by Giant Pink Robots!

Download files, videos and torrents

Broad permissions Verified creator MPL-2.0 vv2026.8.5-1
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About

Varia is better than your browser at downloading stuff.

Supporting videos and torrents on top of just regular files, and with a variety of advanced features wrapped inside an easy to understand interface, Varia is both quite powerful and dead simple to use:

- Download anything you want quickly - potentially faster than your browser, continue incomplete downloads even after reboots

- Download video and audio (as well as whole playlists) from thousands of websites (anything supported by yt-dlp) including YouTube, TikTok, Twitter etc

- Integrate with Firefox and Chrome (or any Chromium based browser like Brave or Opera) to redirect downloads

- Schedule downloads with a powerful scheduler function allowing for custom timespans for each day of the week

- Download from protected areas with basic auth and cookies.txt import support, as well as an option to automatically transfer your browser cookies through the extension

- Control a remote aria2 instance running on any server through Remote Mode

Permissions

1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • session management (logout, suspend)
    --system-talk-name=org.freedesktop.login1
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • network
    --share=network
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to your download folder
    --filesystem=xdg-download
  • system tray
    --talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source (x4)
    source:prebuilt
  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.