ClipConverter.cc Alternatives
ClipConverter.cc offers a free and premium download service for videos from sites like YouTube and Vimeo. There's a lot of competition, with opensource tools generally providing the most secure and privacy-focused options. Those free options might involve a more complex setup but some offer a graphical interface to make things easier.
Online tools like ClipConverter are the easiest to use. Just copy-paste video urls and get downloads. But native apps for Mac or Windows usually offer additional features like batch processing.
- YTD allows you to download videos from Facebook, DailyMotion, Vimeo, Yahoo Video, and many others and convert them to other video formats. The program is easy to use, just specify the URL for the video you want to download and click the Ok button!
YTD
Sponsored- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Android
- HandBrake is an open-source, multithreaded video transcoder – it compresses and converts digital media from one format to another. HandBrake can rip encrypted DVDs with libdvdcss (libdvdcss is installed with VLC media player on macOS, or AnyDVD/DVD 43 on Windows).
HandBrake vs ClipConverter.cc opinions
It's not a 'downloader' per se. It can transcode files once they are in your system.It doesn't download videos, unlike ClipConverter.cc.EliasNS Not able to download from InternetHandbrake is a converter. It cannot download videos from websites, the very function many people use clipconverter.cc for.Handbrake is a client application, you need to have the video on your system so you can convert it on your system, meanwhile clipconverter converts them on their servers and just give you the file. - Augmentable with front-ends such as Youtube-DLG , youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube and a hundreds other sites.
- Free • Open Source
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- BSD
- Python
- PC-BSD
- Youtube-DLG is a program to download videos from YouTube and a other sites.
- Free • Open Source
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- youtube-dl
- wxPython
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.4, released in July 2017, can be still downloaded from the official website
- 4k Video Downloader allows to download video, audio, subtitles, channels and playlists from YouTube in high quality and to save it on your computer. This program is free for downloading videos and playlists of no more than 25 videos.
- Freemium • Proprietary
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- DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video, audio, and image files from many sites.
- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Linux
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
- ClipGrab is a free downloader and converter for YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Dailymotion and many other online video sites. It converts downloaded videos to MPEG4, MP3 or other formats in just one easy step.
- Free • Open Source
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- youtube-dl
- Qt
Bundleware
The default Windows installer contains Opencandy. A version with no third-party offers is available in Download options.
- Freemake Video Converter is video converter that lets convert videos to avi, wmv, mp4 (iPhone, iPod, iPad, PSP, xBox), 3gp, rip dvd, extract mp3, burn DVD and Bluray, create photo slideshow and audio visualization, cut, join, rotate and upload videos, photos and music to YouTube.
Bundleware
The installer contains OpenCandy. Be careful during the installation: Forum
- CloudConvert is a online file conversion tool. more than 200 different audio, video, document, ebook, archive, image, spreadsheet and presentation formats supported.
CloudConvert vs ClipConverter.cc opinions
Does not support downloading YouTube videos. - Yourtube adds a fully integrated downloader to the YouTube app of your jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch, so you can keep those great videos that you love to watch. Yourtube is available in Cydia (jailbroken devices only).
- Paid • Proprietary
- iPhone
- iPad