There are billions of hours of video on YouTube. Literally. And that'south hardly the near astounding statistic about the site, which has been the go-to destination for uploading and watching video since 2005. That said, sometimes, you really want or need to have one of those videos on your own estimator or phone. But when the topic of downloading YouTube videos comes up, there's a side subject that must be broached: Is it legal?

On the copyright front, equally long as you're downloading a video for your own personal offline use, you're probably okay. It'due south more black and white when you consider Google'south terms of service for YouTube, which read: "You are not immune to...access, reproduce, download, distribute, transmit, circulate, brandish, sell, license, alter, alter or otherwise use any part of the Service or any Content except: (a) as expressly authorized by the Service; or (b) with prior written permission from YouTube and, if applicable, the respective rights holders."

Watching YouTube videos offline through unofficial channels takes coin from Google and video creators. There's a reason YouTube runs ads: People brand a living this manner.

Obviously, stealing videos from YouTube is a big no-no. If you desire to share a video, YouTube and most other video sites brand it like shooting fish in a barrel, from embedding to emailing to sharing via social networks. You simply do not need to download a video almost of the time.

Withal, you accept your reasons. If you must download a YouTube video—absolutely need to, but for yourself, and non for dissemination, and not to be a total douche-nozzle—here's how.

Note: This story is updated frequently as the tools involved modify regularly. Some of those changes are not always pleasant, such equally software and so full of "extras," it gets flagged as malware by antivirus tools. The same goes for the helper websites—a alter in a site's ad network tin can besides create issues with malware.

To prevent this from becoming a laundry list of programs and sites that tin can download YouTube videos, we came up with a few rules for inclusion. Services must:

Back up 4K downloads even in the free version.
Work with summit three video sites:YouTube, Facebook, and Vimeo.
Download entire playlists or channels in a batch (on YouTube), at least with a paid version.
Output to MP3 for audio (or offer companion software that does then).
Have an interface thatdoesn't suck.
Not collect your personal data beyond your e-mail accost.
Not contain malware. If there's even a whiff of it in the air, even a PUP, it'south out.

The programs, services, and sites in this story are all free of spam/virus/problems as of this writing, but caveat emptor. Big fourth dimension. Particularly if you're not really emptor-ing.

YouTube Premium Downloads

Now available for subscribers of YouTube Premium—the paid version of YouTube that allows you to lookout without ads—are video downloads. Kind of. There'due south 1 caveat with quality: All the video you download is limited to 1080p quality max, or lower. No 4K.

The biggest issue is, this feature doesn't really download a video to save on your computer forever. It is more than akin to the download feature found on mobile apps for Netflix and Hulu, which makes a streaming video available to watch after using your local storage and views it using the app'southward interface merely. This is not a method that allows you to, say, spotter a video using different software such equally the VLC Media Player.

You admission the download past going to the YouTube hamburger menu and selecting Downloads to view the list of what you lot've grabbed. The page says "Downloads remain available as long as your device has an active internet connection at to the lowest degree one time every 30 days." This probably isn't exactly what you are looking for in a download. But the tools below evangelize exactly that.

Desktop Software

Third-party software is where you will get the best control over downloading online videos. Typically, you paste the URL for the YouTube video you want into the program, and it downloads the highest quality version it can discover. For videos in 1080p Loftier Definition (Hd) format, that'due south usually an MP4 file. For annihilation higher in quality—4K or 8K—the file format is typically MKV.

In the past, YouTube videos were Wink-based, so your download was an FLV file, but those tend to be harder to play back. MP4 (brusk for MPEG-4 Part 14 multimedia format) plays everywhere

Note that the MKV file, also called a Matroska, is a container—the file could contain video utilizing whatever number of codecs inside. The fool-proof style to play them all is to use the VLC Media Actor for Windows, which plays everything. (Read more than about it beneath.) As for the downloaders, here are the all-time options.

VLC Media Thespian

Free; Windows, macOS, Linux

We mention VLC Media Player above because it's a fantastic tool for Windows, Mac, and Linux users that plays back but almost any media ever created. It likewise has the ability to download YouTube videos, admitting in a convoluted style. (If you lot encounter whatsoever problems, endeavor a full re-install of VLC and clear your cache to make it work.)

Re-create a URL from a YouTube video, then open up VLC. From the Media menu, select Open Network Stream (Ctrl+Northward) and paste in the URL. Click Play. When the video is playing, get to Tools > Codec Information. In that location is a box at the bottom chosen "Source"—copy the URL y'all notice in that box.

Go back to your browser and paste the URL—information technology's a temporary web accost and will expire eventually—in the address bar and offset playing the video. When you're viewing the video in the browser, click the three-dot card at the lower correct for the download pick to go on it locally.

All the same, information technology appears that VLC is only going to salve your file as 1080p and not any college, even if the original YouTube stream was available in 1440p or 2160p (aka 4K). It also won't catechumen video to other formats. To get those options, you need the desktop software below.

4K Video Downloader

Free or $xv for lifetime license on iii computers; Windows, macOS, Ubuntu Linux, Android

Multi-lingual 4K Video Downloader (4KVD) is oft updated and features clear download links on the program's website; no ad traps hither. The software does what it advertises in a simple interface. It grabs videos upwardly to 8K in quality and downloads to enough of formats. Simply copy a YouTube URL and click the Paste Link button to become started. 4KVD will fifty-fifty take hold of subtitles, entire playlists, and all the videos in a channel to which you subscribe. The sites supported are limited to the big names like YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and a few others, just that covers well-nigh of what you need. It does brandish a large banner advertisement to go on the lights on and yous're limited to 30 downloads a solar day on the gratis version.

I had to make a switch from MP4 to MKV format to get my test video to download in 4K. 4KVD snagged the 3-minute, 229.7MB file for the movie trailer in well-nigh one minute and 20 seconds. 4KVD defaults dorsum to 1080p Hard disk drive, and so I made the same switch when downloading an Ultra High Definition (8K) playlist.

If you enable the Smart Mode and its presets, 4KVD tin perform i-click downloads to your favorite format. If you lot desire to download more than 25 videos at a time or subscribe to YouTube channels to instantly download the latest, that requires the paid version. Playback of the resulting MKV files via VLC Media Player was flawless.

The program itself has an choice to excerpt audio to MP3 format, and so you lot don't even need the 4K YouTube to MP3 companion software.

VideoProc Converter

$59.90 for one year, $78.xc lifetime, $119.90 family (2-v PCs); Windows, macOS

The powerful VideoProc from Digiarty comes in an editor edition and this converter, which also provides editing and effects. The downloading aspect is great, a version similar to Digiarty's WinX YouTube Downloader, which you can yet observe but is not promoted by the company these days. This makes sense, equally VideoProc Converter handles a lot of downloading, supposedly supporting 4K from over ane,000 websites. With hardware acceleration, it promises some speed. Thankfully, it oftentimes offers price discounts.

To apply it, you lot open up the software, let it detect your hardware to see what you lot have to help with acceleration (if annihilation). Click the Downloader push button, click Add video to identify every bit many URLs as you lot want to batch, and then Download Now. Or you can get a whole YouTube playlist or live stream. It grabbed our 697MB test 4K video to WEBM format in about 2 minutes and 15 seconds, which isn't bad. Best of all, the trial version of VideoProc Converter, which limits conversions to 5 minutes, doesn't appear to limit downloads.

FlixGrab

i-yr license $44.99 plus tax (or $9.99 for Free YouTube Download); Windows

Like some others, FlixGrab has several different programs available, many with overlapping features. For example, it has FlixGrabMS (a version you go from the Microsoft Store to run on Windows 10/xi)—but it wouldn't let me take hold of video from YouTube. The directly download of the FlixGrab plan from the flixgrabapp.com site did piece of work with YouTube and several other sites,. Plus it offers a Costless YouTube Download that is specific to YouTube, nevertheless uses the same like shooting fish in a barrel-to-apply interface. The downside, equally with others, is the high subscription toll, but it'due south the only way to get loftier-quality downloads. The YouTube-but version is substantially cheaper at $9.99 per twelvemonth, notwithstanding. Neither comes with a trial period.

5KPlayer

Free; Windows and macOS

The complimentary 5KPlayer is a lot more than than a downloader, but information technology'southward got a heck of an integrated downloader. Promising no viruses, ads, or plug-in requirements is a good start. It is, sadly, one of the few tested that asks for a registration of your name and electronic mail—yous accept to do that to get the full download role across 300+ sites. However, you can still nab 4K vids from YouTube without registering.

When downloading, the program does attempt to hide some things. Paste in the URL for a YouTube video and the analysis engine runs and shows only a few download options. Click the gear icon, then the Show All button, and scroll to meet more—like a 4K 3,840-past-two,160 file in WebM format. The 227MB WebM exam download took an disturbing 6.five minutes. Grabbing playlists was possible, but y'all must adjust download settings one video at a time. The confusing interface makes it hard to go back to the other videos in the playlist.

5K Player also features DLNA server playback so videos you take hold of tin be watched on whatever devices that support DLNA, plus it supports AirPlay for quick playback to Apple tree devices. Selection a video in the library for quick conversion to MP4, MP3, or even ACC (the audio format preferred by iOS). The histrion didn't like playing back the overly large 4K file, though, and experienced buffering issues (VLC didn't take any problem with the same file).

Ultimately, in that location's a lot to like about 5K Player, from the price to the features, particularly if yous look at them as extras on a downloader. Simply the bad interface, dull download speeds, and playback issues may have you looking elsewhere.

Helper Websites

Practise you lot want to avoid installing software? Video download helper sites are supposed to do the download piece of work for you. All of them do i basic matter: You give them a YouTube URL (or another video site, if supported), they parse it, give you a option of what size download you lot desire, and provide a link to said download. They work on whatever platform, sometimes fifty-fifty on mobile devices. You don't have to install anything on your PC. Information technology can take a lot longer, depending on the size and quality of the video you lot desire, simply you can't beat the convenience.

The trouble is, you can't ever trust them. There are hundreds of these types of sites out in that location—it seems anyone with a modicum of coding ability has gear up one upwardly. Such sites hands go from useful to suspicious, especially if they get popular and the proprietor sells out to brand greenbacks off your visits.

Recommended by Our Editors

Since this story was first published, all the helper sites we recommended have been removed for reasons like calculation sexually explicit ads, no longer working, switching to pushing its download utility only, and one for going out of business to avert getting sued.

For that reason, we're not recommending any helper sites at the moment. Try 1 if you detect information technology, simply if your browser, antivirus, or instincts throw upward warnings, avert and motility on.

Extensions

A browser extension can save you a step. However, you lot're going to run across some problems with downloading video from YouTube, peculiarly if you're using Chrome equally your master browser.

The Chrome Spider web Store—where you get Chrome browser extensions—is controlled by YouTube's owner Alphabet/Google. Even an extension ostensibly for this purpose isn't going to allow YouTube direct downloads, because of Chrome Store restrictions. In general, with Chrome extensions, the download of any RTMP protocol video (protected videos) or streaming video isn't possible. You lot tin use them on other sites with video, of course. Simply not YouTube.

Want to go around it? Get an extension that does not come up from the Google Web Store. Some of the programs and helper sites offer an extension component and volition spell out how to do the install without the assistance the Chrome Spider web Shop normally provides. Here are a couple.

YouTube Video Downloader

Free; Chrome, Opera, Border, Vivaldi, UCBrowser

YouTube Video Downloader from Addoncrop is on multiple browsers but with excellent side-load capabilities. It puts a button below whatever video you're playing on YouTube, or even an embedded YouTube video, making it easy to grab. Supported video quality goes upwards to 8K. Yous tin can as well convert audio from the video to an MP3. It will fifty-fifty assist you lot take video screenshots.

Video DownloadHelper

Gratuitous; Firefox, Chrome, Border

Video DownloadHelper supports a huge number of sites—even those for adults. You'll know a video is downloadable when the icon for the extension animates when you're on the spider web page. Video DownloadHelper for Chrome has stopped working with YouTube; that way, information technology could get placement in the Chrome Web Store. Get around that by using the Video DownloadHelper extension on Firefox or Edge instead.

Mobile

Downloading from YouTube using an Android app from the Google Play Store is a challenge, given that Google has a tight grip on the site it owns, and offers the paid YouTube Premium service that supports offline viewing.

That said, with Android, information technologyis possible to install apps without going through Google. For example, InsTube – Free Video and Music Downloader for Android tin can just be institute at InsTube's site. Download the APK (Android application parcel) file to sideload on an Android device. Notice it in your device's downloads and click to install. (You may accept to go into your security settings and enable "Unknown sources.")

(Instube)

On iPhones and iPads, you lot'd call up at that place would exist no such brake since Apple and Google aren't exactly the best of pals (or maybe they are). However, on the iOS apps I have tried, non just wouldn't they download from YouTube, just they're besides typically not available for long. One of those apps said in its description, "Downloading from YouTube is prohibited due to its Terms of Service." Apple is ensuring that app makers play by the rules—fifty-fifty Google'south rules.

Chances are, the minute you discover an iOS app that can download YouTube videos, it volition get "fixed" or banned. The but real option is to jailbreak your iPhone and use sideloaded apps that download what you want.

There are workarounds. One is to subscribe to YouTube Premium; it lets you download video on your iPhone or iPad to watch later, much as Netflix and Hulu do.

Another is using a costless iOS file manager app like Documents past Readdle. Use the Safari browser to visit a YouTube video, and utilise the Share option to notice Copy Link. Then get dorsum to Documents, and use the built-in browser in the app to surf to a video download helper site. Paste the link into the form (concord your finger down on it until you lot become the "Paste" carte du jour to pop upwards). The site volition give you the links to download, and y'all can save the file to Documents. Concur and drag the file up, until you're back on the main screen, then drag it to the Photos folder. You'll demand to give Documents permission to access Photos the first fourth dimension. Yous can so access the video like you would any video taken on the telephone or tablet—in the Photos app.

Another workaround: Become back to the desktop and try AnyTrans ($39.99 for a single estimator for one year, Windows or macOS), a desktop file manager for iOS devices that has an integrated downloader supporting 900 sites, including YouTube and Facebook. It'll transfer the videos to the iPhone for yous over the USB cablevision. Fifty-fifty if y'all don't pay for AnyTrans, the download option remains and is free forever.

YT Scribe

Want a truly unique way to "download" a video? YT Scribe lets you grab the transcription so you can read them instead. It auto-transcribes, punctuates, and paragraphs the text. The better the subtitles, the better the "article," of course. Best of all, information technology's totally free.

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