About YouTube Video Download Online

A modern YouTube video download tool for watching later, anywhere

YouTube Video Download Online exists for the moments when streaming just doesn't work. Think of a long-haul flight, a subway commute under the city, a road trip through dead zones, or the last few days of a nearly empty mobile data plan. Save a video at home on Wi-Fi, and it's ready to play offline whenever you want it.

Prefer to just listen? Turn a talk, a podcast-style upload or a study playlist track into an MP3 and keep it on your phone for the gym, the bus or a run without a connection.

How our YouTube video download works

Paste a YouTube link, tap the button, and the tool looks the video up live. Regular watch links, youtu.be short links, Shorts, mobile links and YouTube Music links are all accepted. You'll see the title, the length and a list of qualities to pick from.

Tapping a quality opens the file in a new browser tab, straight from YouTube's video servers. If your phone starts playing it, save it from the browser menu or with a long-press. On a computer, right-click and choose "Save video as".

• MP4 video from 144p up to 1080p Full HD, all with sound
• The file size of each video quality shown before you tap
• MP3 audio at 320, 256, 192, 128 or 64 kbps
• No length limit, so long lectures and full concerts work too

What we care about

Quick and simple: no sign-up, no app and no browser extension. It runs in any modern browser on Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Mac, Linux and Chromebook. One tip: if you opened this page inside Instagram, Facebook or TikTok, switch to Chrome or Safari, because in-app browsers often block downloads.

Privacy by design: video details and links are fetched fresh for each visit and never saved. We don't host any files and we keep no download history. We do use Google Analytics and cookies for anonymous visit statistics, and Cloudflare for hosting and security.

A clean layout: one box, one button, clear choices. Pick a small file to save storage and data, or a sharper one for a tablet screen on a long trip.

Things that won't work

Some videos can't be saved. Private, age-restricted, members-only, removed or region-blocked videos may fail, and live streams that are still running aren't supported. If you paste a playlist link, only the single video in that link is saved.

Not affiliated with YouTube or Google

YouTube Video Download Online is an independent project and has no connection to YouTube or Google. Please respect creators and copyright: only download videos you own, that are in the public domain, that are shared under a licence allowing it, or that you have permission to save, and keep them for personal use.