MP4 with sound
The picture and the sound in one file, at the size you chose.
- 1080p for editing, TV and projectors
- 720p or 480p to send on WhatsApp
- 360p when space is short
Save a YouTube video.With sound, or just the song.
Paste the link, then pick an MP4 at 1080p, 720p, 480p or 360p, or an MP3 of the sound alone.
Works with videos, Shorts and music videos. Playlists: one video at a time.
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Download videos you own, or that you have the right to use. Files stay on this computer for 6 hours, then they're removed.
How a link becomes a file
YouTube doesn't keep one file per video. It keeps many copies, and keeps the picture and the sound apart.
- 1
Pick the right copy
Of all the copies YouTube has, we take the H.264 one at the size you chose. H.264 plays on every phone, computer, TV and editing app.
- 2
Fetch the picture and the sound
Both come down at full quality, straight from YouTube. Nothing is re-encoded, so nothing is lost.
- 3
Join them into one file
They're joined into a single MP4 in seconds. For an MP3, the sound is converted and given the title, channel and cover art.
What you get
Plain files that open anywhere, named after the video.
MP3
Just the sound, at 192 kbps, for music players, phones and car stereos.
- Title and channel filled in
- The video's thumbnail as cover art
- Small: about 1.4 MB a minute
When a video can't be saved
If YouTube won't hand a video over, you'll get a plain reason, not a spinning wheel.
- Private and members-only videosOnly the people they're shared with can watch them, so they can't be fetched.
- Age-restricted videosYouTube only shows these to signed-in viewers. They work once a signed-in YouTube session is added in Studio.
- Live streamsThey can be saved once the stream has ended.
- When YouTube changes somethingThe downloader checks itself every half hour and repairs itself, usually before anyone notices.