YouTube Video Download in MP4 or MP3

Paste a YouTube link in the box above, wait a few seconds, then pick a format. That is the entire YouTube video download process on this page: no account, no software, no extension. The tool lists the MP4 and MP3 renditions the source holds, each with its file size beside it, so you know what 720p costs before you commit.

1. Copy the link from YouTube. In the app, tap Share and then Copy link. In a browser, take the address straight from the bar. A short youtu.be link, a /shorts/ link and a link with a timestamp on the end all point at the same video.
2. Paste it above and wait a few seconds. Drop the link into the field at the top of this page and press the button. The title and thumbnail come back, which is your confirmation that the right video was found.
3. Choose MP4 or MP3, then save. Every option carries its file size, so you can see what 720p costs before you commit. Press download a second time and the file lands in Download on Android, in Files on an iPhone, and in Downloads on a laptop.

A free online YouTube downloader, nothing to install

Everything happens in the tab you already have open. There is no yt downloader to install, no yt download app to grant storage permission to, and no extension to approve. The work happens on our side and comes back as an ordinary file download.

What this free online YouTube video downloader gives you is short enough to list.

• MP4 and MP3 from one pasted link, whatever renditions the source holds
• The megabyte cost printed beside every option before you choose one
• Nothing to install
• No account, no email
• No watermark

There is no daily cap on how many files you save, only a pace limit of twenty links a minute from one connection.

The limits, stated up front

It does not edit. Nothing is cropped or trimmed here, so you receive the rendition the source served at the resolution you chose. It cannot reach what YouTube will not serve either, which puts private, deleted, age-restricted and region-blocked videos out of range. Files above roughly 1 GB are listed with their size, but their button is off.

How to download YouTube videos on phone

Nothing about a phone makes this harder. Open the video in the YouTube app, tap Share, tap Copy link, then paste it here. What is worth knowing is where the file lands, because a browser download does not go into your gallery.

Android

Play the file once as soon as it finishes and the media scanner usually picks it up on its own. The download itself arrives in the Download folder rather than in Gallery, so if the scanner misses it, open Files or My Files and move the video into Movies or DCIM, the folders the gallery app watches.

iPhone

Safari has had a download manager since iOS 13, so nothing extra is needed. Finished downloads collect behind the arrow beside the address bar, and the file itself sits in the Files app under Downloads. Moving it into Photos takes one more step, covered below.

Why you do not need a YouTube video downloader app

A YouTube video downloader app wants storage permission, runs in the background, and is where most of the ad and pop-up complaints in this category come from. A web page takes up no space and holds no permissions.

Download YouTube video on a laptop, no extension needed

On a computer the link is already in the address bar, so it is copy, paste, download, and the file goes wherever your browser normally puts things.

You do not need an extension. Extensions that download YouTube video ask for read access to every page you visit, which is a wide permission for something you do a few times a month. Nothing is installed here, so this also works on a locked-down work machine, a Chromebook or a library computer.

YouTube 1080p download: what a minute weighs

Resolution is the only choice here that costs you anything, and the real figure for your video is printed beside each option. As a rule of thumb, 720p runs about 18 MB per minute and is the usual pick, while 1080p runs about 33 MB per minute, which puts ten minutes near 330 MB. Motion moves both numbers: a talking head sits at the bottom of its range and football at the top. A full HD YouTube downloader earns those megabytes on a television and mostly wastes them on a phone. For the whole table, 360p and 480p included, the YouTube to MP4 converter page has it.

MP4 or MP3, and how to decide

Take MP4 when you want the picture: a tutorial, a match highlight, anything you plan to watch on a train with no signal. Take MP3 when only the sound matters. A 40-minute video is a few hundred megabytes as MP4 and around 40 MB as audio.

Download YouTube videos MP3 for music and podcasts

Choose the audio option and you download YouTube videos MP3 without touching the video track. There is no bitrate menu, on purpose: the engine offers whatever audio renditions come back, usually one or two. You take what the source offers rather than dialling in a number, and it is enough for speech and perfectly listenable for music.

A four-minute song generally lands between 4 and 10 MB, and the exact figure is printed beside the option. If audio is most of what you take from YouTube, the YouTube to MP3 converter page goes further into it.

Which YouTube video download link works here

Almost any YouTube video download link you can copy will work: the standard youtube.com/watch?v= address, the short youtu.be form, and youtube.com/shorts/ for a Short. Links from m.youtube.com and music.youtube.com work too, as do /live/ and /embed/ addresses.

A watch link that happens to carry a &list= playlist tail is fine. Only a bare playlist address, with no video in it, is rejected, along with channel pages. Share sheets add tails such as ?si= or ?feature=share, and timestamps arrive as &t=. Leave them alone: the parser reads the video ID and ignores the rest.

Vertical clips have a page of their own, because their sizes behave differently. The YouTube short video download page covers those.

Is YouTube video download safe, and is it legal?

There is no installer here. You are never handed an executable, only a media file, and the only button that starts a download is the one carrying a file size.

On privacy: there is no sign-up, no email and no phone number, so there is no account for a download to attach itself to. Nothing about the link is kept on our side. Your own browser remembers your last few links so the form can offer them back, and clearing them there clears them for good.

On the law, it depends on what you do next. YouTube’s terms treat streaming as the intended way to watch, and its own Premium offline mode as the intended way to keep a copy. Copyright law sits on top of that.

Use this for personal, offline viewing, keep creators credited, and do not re-upload or sell what you save. Your own uploads, Creative Commons material and public-domain recordings are the uncomplicated cases. If you intend to publish, clear the rights first.

YouTube video download in 2026: what actually changed

The method has not changed. If a bookmark you kept from a youtube video download 2025 search has since gone dark, that is the ordinary lifecycle of this category rather than a technical shift. Paste a link, pick a format, save the file.

What has changed is where people do it. Phones now handle the job that used to need a desktop, which is why the questions that follow a download are where the file went and what it cost in data.