About Free YouTube Downloader

A free YouTube downloader made to be simple and safe to use

We built this youtube downloader around one idea: saving a video you are allowed to keep should take a link and a tap, not a tutorial. You paste a YouTube link, whether it is a regular watch page, a youtu.be short link, a Short, a mobile link or a YouTube Music track, and the tool shows the title, the length and the qualities you can choose from.

For video, that means MP4 from 144p up to 1080p Full HD, each with sound and with its file size shown before you pick it. For audio, you can choose MP3 at 320, 256, 192, 128 or 64 kbps. We keep the page plain on purpose, so the options are easy to read on a small phone screen as well as on a laptop.

How it works without storing anything

When you submit a link, the video details are looked up live, just for you, at that moment. Nothing about the video or the links is saved afterward. When you tap a quality, the file opens in a new browser tab directly from YouTube's own video servers, so it never passes through or sits on our side.

Because we host no files, we also keep no download history. There is no list of what you saved and no record tied to you. Long videos work the same way as short ones, since we are not holding or processing the file ourselves.

To keep the site running smoothly, we use Google Analytics and cookies for anonymous visit statistics, and Cloudflare for hosting and security. Our privacy policy describes this in more detail.

What we will never ask you for

Saving a video should not cost you personal details or extra software. You can use every feature of Free YouTube Downloader in any modern browser on Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Mac, Linux or a Chromebook, with nothing extra to set up.

• An account, a sign-up form or a login
• A payment, subscription or card number
• An app, browser extension or desktop program to install

Not affiliated with YouTube or Google

Free YouTube Downloader is an independent tool. We are not connected to, endorsed by or sponsored by YouTube or Google, and their names appear here only to describe what the tool works with.

Some videos may not be available, such as private, age-restricted, members-only, removed or region-blocked ones, and live streams that are still running. We also ask every visitor to respect creators: please download only videos you own, that are in the public domain or under a licence that allows it, or that you have permission to save, and keep them for personal use.