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Watchlater Alternatives

Watchlater is described as 'Download, find and watch videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and 30 other media platforms. Create playlists and share them with your friends!' and is a youtube downloader in the video & movies category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Watchlater for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Firefox and Android. The best alternative is youtube-dl, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Watchlater are Youtube-DLG, 4k Video Downloader, Video DownloadHelper and ClipGrab.

Watchlater alternatives are mainly YouTube Downloaders but may also be Video Downloaders or Download Managers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Watchlater.
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  1. YTD icon

    YTD

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    211 alternatives to YTD 

    YTD allows you to download videos from Facebook, DailyMotion, Vimeo, Yahoo Video, and many others and convert them to other video formats.

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  2. youtube-dl icon

    youtube-dl

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
    • PC-BSD
    233 alternatives to youtube-dl 

    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.

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    1.  Command line interfaceyoutube-dl either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
    2.  SoundCloud Downloaderyoutube-dl allows you to download audio files from Soundcloud.
    3.  Ad-freeyoutube-dl doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
    4.  No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in youtube-dl without registration.
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  3. Youtube-DLG icon

    Youtube-DLG

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • wxPython
    184 alternatives to Youtube-DLG 

    Youtube-DLG (yt-dlg) is a cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython. It is open source and licensed in the public domain.

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    1.  SoundCloud DownloaderYoutube-DLG allows you to download audio files from Soundcloud.
    2.  Ad-freeYoutube-DLG doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
    3.  No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in Youtube-DLG without registration.
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  4. 4k Video Downloader icon

    4k Video Downloader

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    251 alternatives to 4k Video Downloader 

    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.

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    1.  Command line interface4k Video Downloader either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
    2.  Support for 4K4k Video Downloader supports watching, rendering or exporting 4K content (also know as UHD or Ultra HD).
    3.  Portable4k Video Downloader can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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  5. Video DownloadHelper icon

    Video DownloadHelper

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
    190 alternatives to Video DownloadHelper 

    DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video, audio, and image files from many sites.

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    1.  SoundCloud DownloaderVideo DownloadHelper allows you to download audio files from Soundcloud.
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  6. ClipGrab icon

    ClipGrab

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • youtube-dl
    • Qt
    184 alternatives to ClipGrab 

    ClipGrab is a free downloader and converter for YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Dailymotion and many other online video sites.

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    The default Windows installer contains Opencandy. A version with no third-party offers is available in Download options.

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  7. Youtube Video and Audio Downloader icon

    Youtube Video and Audio Downloader

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Firefox
    195 alternatives to Youtube Video and Audio Downloader 

    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.

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  8. Freemake Video Converter icon

    Freemake Video Converter

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    • Windows
    326 alternatives to Freemake Video Converter 

    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.

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    Bundleware

    The installer contains OpenCandy. Be careful during the installation: https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/

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  9. Airy YouTube Downloader icon

    Airy YouTube Downloader

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    239 alternatives to Airy YouTube Downloader 

    Airy is a YouTube video downloader, i.e. an application that allows you to save your favorite YouTube videos so you can watch them whenever you feel like - no matter whether you are connected to Internet or not and whether it is still available on the web site.

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    SnapTube

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    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    180 alternatives to SnapTube 

    Download YouTube videos and music. It’s fast, easy, and free.

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    1.  Ad-freeSnapTube doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
    2.  No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in SnapTube without registration.
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