Save a YouTube video as a clean MP4 in up to 1080p. Paste the link, choose the quality you want, and the file downloads straight to your device — no account, no extension, no watermark stamped on the output.
Please download responsibly. Save your own uploads, Creative Commons material, or content you have permission to use. Downloading or re-uploading copyrighted videos without the owner's consent breaches YouTube's Terms of Service and may infringe copyright.
Copy the YouTube URL from your browser or the share sheet — watch links, youtu.be links and Shorts links all work — and paste it in.
The available MP4 qualities are listed with their approximate file sizes, from 360p up to 1080p where the video offers it.
Click download. The file is prepared and sent straight to your device as a standard MP4 with no watermark and no overlay.
Full HD where the source offers it, in the universally playable MP4 container — no obscure codecs to convert afterwards.
The stream is passed through untouched. Nothing is burned into the corner and no intro card is prepended.
No sign-up, no email wall, no browser extension and no bundled installer trying to change your search engine.
It is a web page, so it runs the same on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS without anything to install.
Only the qualities that genuinely exist for that video are offered, with approximate sizes, so nothing fails after you have waited for it.
Vertical Shorts download at their native aspect ratio, uncropped and unpadded.
There are plenty of legitimate reasons to want a local copy. Creators archive their own uploads because a channel strike, an accidental deletion or a lost account can take years of work offline in an afternoon, and YouTube is not a backup service. Editors pull down footage they hold the rights to so they can cut it offline. Teachers save Creative Commons material for a classroom with unreliable internet. Researchers keep copies of sources that may be edited or removed later.
The line that matters is ownership. If the video is yours, licensed for reuse, or you have the copyright holder's permission, saving a copy is uncontroversial. If it is not, downloading it breaches YouTube's Terms of Service regardless of what you intend to do with it, and re-uploading it is straightforward copyright infringement — the kind that gets channels terminated, not just demonetised.
A practical note on quality: YouTube stores video and audio as separate streams above 720p, so a true 1080p download has to fetch both and mux them back together. Tools that promise instant 1080p with no processing step are usually handing you a 720p file with a 1080p label. The format list here reflects what is actually retrievable for the specific video you paste.
If downloading is a regular part of your workflow rather than an occasional need, do it locally. Vynex Studio is free, queues multiple links, and runs the extraction on your own machine, which is both faster and not subject to anyone else's rate limits.
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