We're a small independent team that built a simple youtube downloader for one everyday reason: sometimes you just want to keep a video. Here's who we are, how the tool works and what you can count on when you use it.
A friendly tool for watching videos offline
Think about the last time you wanted a video on hand without relying on a signal. Maybe it was a cooking tutorial for a kitchen with patchy Wi-Fi, a funny clip to show your grandparents, or a playlist of workouts for a long flight. That's the kind of moment we had in mind.
We wanted something that felt less like software and more like a favor from a friend. You paste a link and pick a quality, and the video is yours to watch later or share with the people you care about. No accounts, no apps and nothing to figure out first.
How our YouTube downloader works
Copy a YouTube link and paste it into the box on our home page. Regular watch links, short youtu.be links, Shorts, mobile links and YouTube Music links all work. When you tap the button, we look the video up live and show you its title, length and the qualities you can choose from.
For video, you'll see MP4 options from 144p up to 1080p Full HD, each with sound and with its file size listed so you know what you're getting. For audio, there's MP3 at 320, 256, 192, 128 or 64 kbps. Tap the one you want and the file opens in a new browser tab, coming straight from YouTube's own video servers.
If your phone starts playing the file instead of saving it, open the browser menu and choose Download, or long-press and pick Save. On a computer, right-click and choose Save video as.
Our promises to you
We keep things short and honest. These are the things we stick to every day:
- Free to use: there's no sign-up, no subscription and no paid tier hiding the good stuff.
- Simple: it runs in any modern browser on Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Mac, Linux and Chromebook, with nothing to install.
- Private: video details and links are fetched fresh for each visit and never saved. We don't host files and we don't keep a history of what you download.
- Open about what we use: Google Analytics and cookies give us anonymous visit statistics, and Cloudflare handles hosting and security.
- Honest about limits: private, age-restricted, members-only, removed or region-blocked videos may not work, and live streams that are still running can't be saved.
Not affiliated with YouTube or Google
YouTube Downloader Online is an independent project. We aren't connected to, endorsed by or sponsored by YouTube or Google in any way, and their names are used here only to describe what the tool works with.
Because the videos belong to their creators, we ask you to use the tool kindly. Please save only videos you own, ones in the public domain or under a licence that allows it, or ones you have permission to keep, and use them for personal viewing.
Thanks for stopping by, and we hope YouTube Downloader Online makes it a little easier to keep the videos you love close at hand.