Free YouTube Download Alternatives
Free YouTube Download is described as 'Have you ever been looking for a YouTube downloader that will be working flawlessly? It's actually not that easy to find a YouTube download program that will download YouTube videos fast and for free. But now you have finally found it!' and is a YouTube Downloader in the Audio & Music category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Free YouTube Download for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Online / Web-based, Mac, Linux and Android. The best alternative is youtube-dl, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Free YouTube Download are Youtube-DLG (Free, Open Source), 4k Video Downloader (Freemium), Video DownloadHelper (Freemium) and ClipGrab (Free, Open Source).
- 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
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- 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
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Python
- PC-BSD
- Youtube-DLG is a program to download videos from YouTube and a other sites.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- 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
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video, audio, and image files from many sites.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- 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
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- youtube-dl
- Qt
Bundleware
The default Windows installer contains Opencandy. A version with no third-party offers is available in Download options.
- Bulk Media Downloader grabs and downloads all sort of media resources in bulk. You can filter different types to prevent cluttering the grabber window. It also has a pause button to stop appending more resources.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Google Chrome
- Opera
- Firefox
- Youtube Video and Audio Downloader is an open-source project, downloading Youtube videos (using Firefox download manager) in all available formats (FLV, MP4, WebM, and 3GP) with video quality of your choice.
- 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
- Freemake Video Downloader is a free video downloader that lets download videos from YouTube, Google, Facebook, Dailymotion and other sites either in HD, 4K, MP4, FLV, 3GP or convert web videos to FLV, AVI, MP4, MP3.
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Windows
Bundleware
The installer contains OpenCandy. Be careful during the installation: Forum