Y-Download saves YouTube videos to your device as MP4 files or converts them to MP3 audio. Paste any YouTube link – a normal video, a Short, a YouTube Music track or a playlist – and you will see every quality that is available for that video, from 360p up to 1080p, 1440p and 4K, together with the estimated file size. Pick one, and the file is prepared on our servers and handed to your browser as a regular download.
Because YouTube now serves video and sound as separate streams, a downloader has to merge them before the file is useful. Y-Download does that for you, prefers the widely compatible H.264 video and AAC audio codecs whenever YouTube provides them, and keeps the original quality – nothing is re-encoded unless you ask for an MP3, WAV or FLAC conversion. Audio downloads get the video title, channel name and a square cover image embedded, so songs look right in any music player.
There is nothing to install and no account to create. The site works in any modern browser on iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac and Linux, and files you generate are deleted from our servers automatically after 30 minutes. Y-Download has been online since 2021.