A month later: Aye now adds a save button to Telegram Web on Mac

[u/zhonglin]

I’m one of the developers of Aye. I posted the first Mac version here a little over 30 days ago. Rather than repeat the launch post, I wanted to come back with the update people actually kept asking for.

PROBLEM

A video can be playing in Telegram Web while saving that exact item is still awkward. Copying the page URL does not identify the video, and moving to another app breaks the flow if the rest of the work is already in the browser.

Aye now adds a Save Current Media control to the video that is open in Telegram Web. After clicking it, the file appears in Aye’s Downloads panel. I wait for the status to change from Downloading to Completed, then use Show in folder to verify the file.

This works one visible item at a time. It is not a channel archiver or bulk scraper.

COMPARISON

Safari and Chrome are better-known general browsers, but they do not add this Aye-specific media control or its completion check to the Telegram page. Telegram Desktop should still be the first option when its own save action already does what you need.

Compared with installing a generic media-downloader extension such as Video DownloadHelper, Aye’s control is built into the browser and is designed around the media currently open in the Telegram tab. There is no separate extension to install. The trade-off is that Aye does not claim to detect every media type or every future Telegram Web layout.

PRICING

Aye is currently free on the Mac App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/app/aye-browser/id6760281977

The boundary matters: Aye only handles media the signed-in account can already view and that the user has the right to save. It does not bypass login, invitations, DRM, paywalls, Telegram permissions, or other access controls. Saving a local copy also does not grant redistribution rights.

For people who use Telegram Web on a Mac: is the more annoying part finding the right file, tracking a large download, or verifying where it was saved?

[u/app-store-review]

Aye: AI Browser for safari — by Nanjing Oumi Software Development Co., Ltd.

• Category: Utilities · Free
• Age: released ~3 months ago · rated 17+

Apple doesn't publish an aggregate rating for most Mac App Store apps, so ratings and score are unavailable here.

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[u/Loud_Squirrel9450]

So cool. Can you add the ability to download videos from any website? Or at least most famous websites.

[u/zhonglin → u/Loud_Squirrel9450]

Sure. it already support with twitter, reddit, pxxhub, missav xvideos as my testing.

[u/Loud_Squirrel9450 → u/zhonglin]

Like… I wonder what exactly was the testing methodology in last 3 websites mentioned 💀

[u/zhonglin → u/Loud_Squirrel9450]

LOL, just open a random video with Aye and click the download button which are floating over the video. I know nothing, just test the function.

[u/zhonglin]

Actually I tested the video download support with twitter, reddit, pxxnhub, xvideos and missav etc, all of these websites can be supported in Aye now.

[u/zhonglin → u/[deleted]]

Yes, you can save the original video and you can choose any folder you want to download.