The perfect tutorial, a lecture needed for class, or a music video for a flight. YouTube won't let you save any of it. Online converter sites are a minefield of pop-ups and fake download buttons. This extension skips all of that. Install it, browse YouTube normally, and a download button appears on every video. Click it, pick your quality (up to 4K when available), and the MP4 saves straight to your computer. It works on regular videos, Shorts, entire playlists, and YouTube players embedded on other websites. The extension handles everything behind the scenes. It grabs the best available video and audio, combines them into a single ready-to-play file, and drops it in your downloads folder. Queue up to three downloads at once with live progress tracking, and they keep running in the background while you browse other tabs. Need a whole playlist? Queue every video and let it work through them one by one. Everything stays private. Downloads happen locally on your device, nothing gets uploaded anywhere, and there's zero tracking or analytics. Try 3 free downloads to see how it works, no credit card needed.
Key Features
- Detects YouTube watch pages, Shorts, playlists, and embedded players automatically
- Decrypts signature-ciphered and n-parameter-throttled stream URLs in real time
- Parses DASH manifests and HLS playlists to surface every available quality tier
- Merges separate video-only and audio-only adaptive streams into a single MP4 or WebM
- Lists all available resolutions from 360p to 4K with file-size estimates before download
- Remembers your preferred quality setting and applies it automatically on future downloads
- Queues up to three simultaneous downloads with live progress, speed, and ETA tracking
- Runs downloads in the background so you can browse other tabs without interruption
- Supports playlist downloads with sequential queuing of individual videos
- Generates ready-to-run yt-dlp commands for advanced CLI and batch workflows
- Handles age-restricted and unlisted videos accessible through your authenticated session
- Downloads livestream replays by converting the archived HLS stream into a single MP4
- Stores license activation, preferences, and queue history locally with zero analytics
Customer Reviews
Caleb Whitford
We archive client livestreams and Shorts. This is the only tool that keeps up with YouTube's encryption changes and still hands back perfect MP4 files.
Caleb Whitford • 5/5 • 2025-02-19
Natasha Yuen
The quality list and file-size estimates mean no surprises, and the three-download queue lets me prep assets for edits in one sitting.
Natasha Yuen • 4.9/5 • 2025-03-07
Simon Greaves
Embedded videos on partner portals used to be a pain. This extension detects them instantly and finishes the background conversion while we keep browsing.
Simon Greaves • 4.8/5 • 2025-01-31
