The box above converts YouTube to MP4 in your browser. Paste a link, give it a few seconds to list what is available, then pick the file you want. It runs in any browser on phone or laptop with nothing to install, and there is no account, no email and no watermark burned into what you get back.
One limit is worth knowing up front. The list you get is whatever renditions YouTube holds for that specific video, so it varies: most videos top out at 1080p, some offer 1440p or 2160p, and older uploads may stop at 720p. Anything over roughly 1 GB is listed so you can see it exists, but its button is disabled.
youtu.be short links, /shorts/ links and links with a ?t= timestamp on the end are all accepted, so there is nothing to tidy up first.This YouTube to MP4 converter does one job. It takes a link to a single video and hands back downloadable files. Every option is listed with its resolution and its file size in MB or GB before you commit to it, so you know what a four-minute clip at 1080p is going to cost you before it starts.
What it will not do is worth saying plainly. No cropping, no trimming, no watermark added and none removed, no subtitles burned in. There is no upload box, so a file already sitting on your disk cannot be converted here. Paste a channel URL or a playlist URL and you will be told to open a single video and copy that link instead.
A greyed-out button is deliberate
Anything over roughly 1 GB is shown with its button greyed out. The same happens on the rare occasion the size string coming back cannot be read: an unknown size is treated as oversized rather than assumed small, so a disabled button on what looks like a short video is that safeguard rather than a fault.
There is no daily cap, and no paid tier. Send more than twenty links in a single minute and you may be asked to slow down for a moment, which is a burst limit, not a quota.
People type this search a dozen ways and land in the same place. ytmp4 is the shortest of them and the one most people reach for from memory, particularly in Indonesia and the Philippines. It is not a brand here, just the query. The box at the top is what all of these lead to.
yt to mp4 is the American shorthand, usually typed by someone who already knows what they want and is not shopping around. Same box, same three steps, same file at the end.
youtube converter mp4 puts the words in a different order and turns up most often in India. Search engines treat it as its own phrase, so it is worth naming, but there is no separate tool behind it.
MP4 is a container. It is a single file that holds a video track, an audio track and a little metadata such as the title and duration, arranged so a player can find each part quickly. The name says nothing about how the picture is compressed. Inside almost every MP4 that comes off YouTube you will find H.264 video and AAC audio, which is the pairing phones, browsers, TVs and editors all understand. It plays on effectively every device made since about 2010.
YouTube MP4 quality comes down to resolution, and resolution decides file size far more than anything else. The numbers are steadier than people expect. As a rough guide, count on about 5 MB per minute at 360p, 8 MB at 480p, 18 MB at 720p and 33 MB at 1080p. Busy footage with a lot of motion runs above those figures and a static talking head runs below, but they are close enough to plan around.
In practice that means a ten-minute video is roughly 50 MB at 360p and roughly 330 MB at 1080p. It also explains why a long video can hit the greyed-out button: half an hour at 1080p is already about 1 GB. If you are on mobile data, 480p is the sensible middle, and 720p is where most people stop being able to tell the difference on a phone screen.
YouTube keeps its higher resolutions as adaptive streams, which means the picture and the sound are stored as two separate files and your browser plays them together without ever joining them. Only the lower rungs still exist as progressive files with the audio already inside, which in practice means 360p and, on a lot of videos, 720p.
So any tool that simply hands over the raw 1080p video stream hands over a silent file. That is the single most common complaint about free downloaders, and it is not a fault in the video you picked.
The merge happens on the server before the file reaches you, so nothing on your phone affects it. If a job fails you get an error rather than a silent file, and the fix is the same either way: take 720p, where there is often nothing to merge in the first place.
A yt to mp4 1080p download from this page arrives with its audio because the two streams are joined upstream before the file is handed over. If one particular video refuses at 1080p, drop to 720p and it will almost always go through.
Nothing is installed, so there is no APK to sideload and no browser extension asking for permission to read every page you visit. The page works the same in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge, and the file you receive is served as a plain download.
Your URL goes to the extraction service and the available renditions come back. We keep no account, no email and no card details, and our logs record only the video ID and a hashed IP, never your full address. Your last few links are remembered in your own browser so the form can offer them back; clearing them clears them for good.
Downloading is fine for private, personal use: a lecture to watch on a flight, a recipe to keep, your own uploads. It is not a licence to re-upload someone else's work, sell it or strip credit from it. Creators own what they publish, and YouTube's own offline mode inside Premium is the route the platform sanctions. If you hold rights to something being taken through this page, contact us and we will act on it.
Downloading and saving are two steps on a phone, and the second one is where most people get stuck.
On Android the finished file lands in the Download folder, not in Gallery, which is why it seems to vanish. Open Files or My Files, find it under Downloads, then move it to Movies or DCIM. The gallery app indexes those folders and the video shows up within a few seconds.
On iPhone, a Safari download goes to the Files app, under Downloads. Open Files, tap the video once to check it, then use the share button and choose Save Video. It appears in Photos straight away, in the same album as anything you recorded yourself.
On Windows and macOS there is nothing to move. The MP4 drops into your Downloads folder and opens in whatever player you already use, and it will import into Premiere, DaVinci Resolve or iMovie without conversion.
Copy the video link, paste it in the box at the top of this page, and pick one of the MP4 options that comes back. Each one shows its resolution and file size before you choose, so nothing arrives as a surprise. There is no account step and nothing to install. On a phone the file lands in Downloads first, then you move it into the gallery.
The desktop options people settle on are yt-dlp, a free command-line tool that handles nearly every resolution, and 4K Video Downloader, which wraps a similar engine in an ordinary window. Both need installing and keeping updated. If you want one file now rather than a permanent setup, a browser page like this one is quicker, and it still works on a locked-down work laptop where you cannot install anything.
Paste the YouTube link above and pick an MP4 option. YouTube already stores most videos as H.264 video with AAC audio, which is exactly what an MP4 holds, so in most cases the streams are repackaged rather than re-encoded and the picture matches what you saw streaming. Higher resolutions take a few seconds longer because the separate video and audio streams have to be joined first.
Yes. Every resolution on this page is free, and there is no paid tier, no trial and no account step. We do not ask for an email or a card, and there is no limit on how many videos you take in a day. The only thing you may run into is a short pause if you send more than twenty links inside a single minute, and that clears on its own.
Download the MP4 first, then move it: the download step and the gallery step are separate on a phone. On Android the file sits in the Download folder until you move it into Movies or DCIM, which is where the gallery looks. On iPhone, open the Files app, tap the video, use the share button and choose Save Video.
yt-dlp is a command-line program you install yourself. Once it is on your machine, running yt-dlp -f mp4 followed by the URL fetches the best MP4 rendition, and the bv*+ba format selector joins the best video and audio streams into one file. It is free and very capable, but it needs Python or a standalone binary plus regular updates when YouTube changes. This page needs neither.
Most of them break periodically, and the reason is always the same. YouTube changes how it serves streams every few months, and any downloader whose extraction layer has not caught up stops resolving links until it does. If a link fails here, it is worth trying again a little later. A video that is private, deleted, age-restricted or a live broadcast will not work at any point.
Skip the MP4 step. Paste the link and choose an audio option instead of a video one, and you get an audio file directly, which is smaller and faster than downloading video and stripping it afterwards. Our MP3 page covers the audio side in more detail.
Paste your link in the box at the top of this page to convert YouTube to MP4 at the highest resolution the video offers. It is free, there is no account to make, and nothing gets installed.
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