YourTube Alternatives and Similar Apps

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. It requires the Python interpreter and is therefore platform-independent. It can be integrated in other programs and so be used to watch online videos in local applications such as MPV .

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PC-BSD

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NewPipe

NewPipe is a lightweight YouTube front-end for Android. It doesn't need the YouTube-API or any Google Play Services, as NewPipe only parses the YouTube website in order to gain the information it needs. Therefore this app can be used on devices without Google Services installed. Also, you don't need a YouTube account to use NewPipe, and it's FLOSS.

Free Open Source Android Android Tablet YouTube

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Youtube-DLG

A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.

Free Open Source Windows Linux wxPython

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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. Freemake is the only free video converter that rips online videos via URL copypaste from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and 50+ sites. Download YouTube to iTunes. Convert YouTube to MP3, MP4, AVI, etc.

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

Freemium Windows

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FrostWire

FrostWire is a free, open source P2P BitTorrent file sharing application & cloud file downloader in one. It's a fork of LimeWire . Unlike other BitTorrent clients, FrostWire allows users to query both BitTorrent Search engines & Cloud sources from within the application (YouTube, SoundCloud and Archive.

• Bundleware As reported on VirusTotal, the installer contains Opencandy. Be careful during installation. https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/60a309e91ba1039c3527053867e0e210ff2e18628a01acc264d82430e6436889/analysis/

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android Android Tablet ... Kindle Fire

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ClipGrab

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. Downloaded videos can be converted to the following file formats: WEBM, WMV, MPEG4, OGG Theora, MP3 (audio only), OGG Vorbis (audio only).

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

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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YouTube Vanced

Download YouTube Vanced APK for Non-Rooted, Rooted, and Magisk Android devices. Vanced also was known as iYTBP is a new modded version of YouTube which contains ad blocking and background playback features.

Free Android Android Tablet

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Video-dl

Download videos from YouTube, Rai, Rai Replay, Video Mediaset, La7, Witty TV, Dplay and lots of other websites! PLEASE NOTE: If the download file you receive doesn't have a file extension, simply rename it so it has the proper extension (for example, rename videoplayback as videoplayback.mp4).

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Android Tablet iPad Self-Hosted Apple TV

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Freemake Video Downloader

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. Numerous Sites Support | Get easy and quick video downloads from YouTube, Google, Facebook, MTV, MTV Music, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Vimeo, Veoh, Break, Nicovideo, 18+. The Premium Pack ($9.

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

Free Personal Windows

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SaveFrom.net

Helps to download from more than 40+ websites, including youtube, vimeo, dailymotion, rapidshare etc.

• Bundleware The desktop software contains adwares.

Free Windows Web Internet Explorer Chrome Safari ... Yandex.Browser Opera Opera Next Firefox

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SnapTube

Download YouTube video and music in seconds. It’s fast, easy, and free. Download YouTube videos in MP3 format with SnapTube’s killer music download feature. Save time and space on your phone. No extra encoding process or plugin required. Key features: 1. DOWNLOAD IN MULTIPLE RESOLUTIONS MP4 videos are available in multiple resolutions: choose the small size of 360 pixels or the high-definition of 720 pixels. 2.

Free Android

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Aloha Browser

Aloha Browser is a fast, free, full-featured web browser that provides maximum privacy and security. Millions of users have already tried this app and prefer it over the other browsers for the clean interface, ease of use, and its awesome features. 5 stars - is the average rating in most countries. It works just as you expect and have no annoying ads.

Free Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

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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. It also contains a pure JavaScript library to extract the original audio file out of FLV videos. It also shipped with an offline tool to extract audio files out of FLV videos. Features: 1. Download YouTube videos in all available format (FLV, MP4, WebM, 3GP, DASH) 2.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Firefox

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Free YouTube Download

DVDVideoSoft's Free YouTube Download lets you download and convert YouTube videos fast with multi-stream support that can be paused anytime. FEATURES - download the original YouTube stream in MP4, MKV (up to 8K UHD), WEBM, and MP3; - convert video to MP4, AVI, and MP3; - customize output name format; - load links from external text files; - save download history; - import videos to iTunes automatically, convert to iPhone / iPad / iPod; - work via proxy server.

Freemium Mac Windows

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TubeMate

Allows to download videos for offline viewing to the sdcard of the device. Google controversially remove all YouTube downloaders from Google Play (Android Market), but it is available at other Android markets such as SAM - SlideME Application Manager . This app is not Open-source and contains advertising, but it is free.

Free Android Android Tablet PlayBook Opera

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TubeMaster++

TubeMaster++ is a powerful tool which can capture multimedia files you are watching or listening from your internet browser (FLV,MP3,MP4). Captured files can be saved directly on your computer or converted to other popular video or audio formats (AVI, MPEG, MP3, MP4, IPod, PSP ...). Websites examples : YouTube, DailyMotion, MySpace, Google Videos, LastFM, Grooveshark and many others ...

• Discontinued The project seems to be no longer maintained and the official website is no longer available. The last version, v2.7, can be still downloaded from Softpedia and the source code is available on SourceForge (v2.5).

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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4K Download Online

Download YouTube music from your browser and save it in MP3, M4A or OGG with the best possible quality.

Free Web

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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. It can download complete playlists with the possibility to download each item in the available quality and supports YouTube channels.

Commercial Mac Windows

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YoutubeDownloader

YoutubeDownloader is an application that lets you download videos from YouTube. You can just copy-paste URLs of any videos or playlists and download them directly to a format of your choice. It also supports searching by keywords, which is helpful if you want to quickly look up and download videos.

Free Open Source Windows

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VideoGet

With VideoGet you can easily download YouTube videos. VideoGet also supports downloads from more than 850 other video websites, including popular YouTube, MySpace, Google Video, Yahoo Video, MetaCafe, etc. Most of these video websites store video in FLV format. A lot of people dont know how to playback these files. VideoGet provides a possibility to convert such video into most popular formats for more comfortable playback.

Commercial Mac Windows

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YTD YouTube Downloader

YTD is an Android app to download YouTube videos (and extract/convert audio to mp3). Share a YouTube video URL to this app. It will give you a choice of quality/format and allow you to download the video. It also has extra features such as to convert to MP3 (properly by using ffmpeg), or to display the file size before downloading.

Free Android Android Tablet

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SAVEVIDEO.ME

SAVEVIDEO.ME web tool - helps to download videos from Dailymotion, Facebook Video, Vimeo, Ustream, Twitter Video, Vine, Aol Video, Rumble.com, Streamable.com, LiveLeak, Coub, Metacafe and from others. Download videos directly from popular video sites. Steps: 1. Copy page URL with a favorite video; 2. Paste into the SAVEVIDEO.ME search box and press "Download" button; 3.

Free Web

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YTD

YTD allows you to download videos from YouTube, Facebook, Google Video, 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! It also allows you to convert downloaded videos for Ipod, Iphone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid and MP3. You can use YouTube Downloader to download the videos of your choice from home, at the office or in school.

• Bundleware Be careful during the installation: https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/

Freemium Windows

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Keepvid Works

Keepvid helps download online videos from many sites, it is free, fast & secure. Youtube to mp3 converter included. Keepvid tradition lives on and this site works with 100s of video sites to procure your video library and save it to device of your choosing. It comes in a dozen of different languages, translated with love. Https secure access included. This site has suggestive search for youtube videos, just type in what you want to find, no need to leave keepvid.

Free Web

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Videoder Video Downloader

Some of the awesome features that our app has are : Unlimited Downloading for free: Download unlimited music and videos for free !! Download any music/video in MP3 or 144p to 4k resolution. Preview: Watch any video in HD or SD without any ad before or during the preview. Auto play videos one after the other and just have fun. No more hassle once the video is ended.

Free Web Android

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