Speichere jedes YouTube Short als vertikale MP4 in voller Qualität, oder behalte nur den Ton als MP3. Funktioniert auf iPhone, Android und Desktop.
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In the YouTube app, tap Share on the Short and choose Copy link. In a browser, copy the address, which looks like youtube.com/shorts/ followed by an 11-character ID. A regular youtube.com/watch?v= link to the same video works too.
Paste the link into the box at the top of this page. The Short is analyzed in about two seconds and you will see its title, length and the available qualities, normally up to 1080p, plus the audio options.
Tap Download next to 1080p (or a smaller size) to save the vertical video, or switch to the Audio tab and pick MP3 to save only the sound. The file is prepared with live progress and saved by your browser.
On iPhone the MP4 lands in the Files app; open it and use the Share button to save it to Photos. On Android it appears in Downloads and in your gallery. From there you can share it to any app.
The Short is saved in its original portrait orientation and 9:16 aspect ratio, up to 1080×1920, so it fills a phone screen and drops into Reels, TikTok or a video editor without cropping or black bars.
Unlike TikTok saves, Shorts downloaded here carry no branding. You get the clean video the creator uploaded, with nothing stamped in a corner, and Y-Download adds nothing of its own.
Save just the sound of a Short as a 320 kbps MP3 with cover art and tags, or as the original M4A or OPUS stream. Handy for reusing your own audio or building a library of your channel's tracks.
Shorts are small files, so the merge finishes quickly – often in a few seconds – and your browser starts saving as soon as it is ready. You see the progress bar the whole time.
youtube.com/shorts/ID links, the same video opened as youtube.com/watch?v=ID, youtu.be links and links shared from the YouTube app are all recognized. On Android you can even share a Short straight to Y-Download from the YouTube app.
No account, no app store download, no daily limit. The links you paste are not kept beyond short-lived operational logs, and every generated file is deleted from our servers after 30 minutes.
YouTube gives you no way to save a Short as a file, and screen recording leaves you with a blurry clip that has the interface baked in. Y-Download is a YouTube Shorts downloader that gets you the real file instead: paste a youtube.com/shorts/ link, wait about two seconds, and pick MP4 to save the vertical video at its full resolution or MP3 to keep only the audio. The video arrives as the creator uploaded it – portrait orientation, original sound, no logo or watermark added – and lands in your Downloads folder like any other file.
Shorts are vertical, usually 1080×1920, and YouTube caps most of them at 1080p, so the quality list is shorter than for a regular video: typically 360p, 480p, 720p and 1080p. Y-Download labels quality by the shorter side of the frame, which means a full-quality Short shows as 1080p even though it is 1920 pixels tall. Up to 1080p the file is H.264 video with AAC audio, the combination every phone, TV and editing app understands, and it is produced by merging YouTube's own streams without re-encoding. A one-minute Short is roughly 15–30 MB at 1080p.
Creators save Shorts to repost their own clips on TikTok, Instagram Reels or a website, to reuse a sound in a new edit, or to keep an offline archive of their channel. The MP3 option takes the audio track and encodes it at 320 kbps with the title and channel embedded as tags, ready to import into an editor. Y-Download is free, needs no account or app, works in Safari and Chrome on any phone, and deletes your files from its servers after 30 minutes.
The standard choice. You get an H.264 MP4 in portrait orientation with the original audio, playable on any phone, computer or TV and accepted by every social app and editor. A one-minute Short is roughly 15–30 MB at 1080p; choose 720p if you want a smaller file for messaging apps.
The soundtrack of the Short converted to MP3 with the title, channel name and thumbnail embedded as cover art. Pick 320 kbps for music or 128 kbps for speech. A one-minute Short is about 2.4 MB at 320 kbps and under 1 MB at 128 kbps. Prefer the untouched original? Choose M4A or OPUS instead.
The More tab offers the Short's thumbnail in up to five sizes and any available subtitles as an SRT file. Useful for cover images and for adding captions when you re-edit your own clips.
Open the Short in the YouTube app, tap Share, then Copy link. Open Safari, go to Y-Download, paste the link and tap Download next to 1080p. Safari saves the MP4 to the Files app under Downloads; open it there and use Share → Save Video if you want it in your Photos library. No app installation or shortcut is needed.
Yes. Copy the link from the YouTube app's Share menu, paste it into Y-Download in Chrome and tap Download. The video is saved to your Downloads folder and shows up in your gallery. If you install Y-Download as an app from Chrome's menu, you can share Shorts to it directly from YouTube and skip the copy and paste.
No. YouTube does not stamp a logo into Shorts the way TikTok does, and Y-Download adds no watermark, intro or outro of its own. The MP4 is the creator's original vertical video with the original audio.
Most Shorts are uploaded from a phone at 1080×1920, so 1080p is the top quality available and the list usually offers 360p to 1080p. Because Y-Download labels quality by the shorter side of the frame, a full-size vertical Short appears as 1080p. Occasionally a creator uploads a Short from a 4K camera; in that case a 2160p option (VP9 or AV1) appears as well.
Yes. After pasting the link, open the Audio tab and choose MP3 at 320 or 128 kbps. Y-Download extracts the audio track, encodes it and embeds the title, channel and cover art so the track shows up correctly in any music app. If you prefer the untouched original stream, choose M4A or OPUS instead.
Check that the Short is public. Private and members-only Shorts and age-restricted videos cannot be downloaded, and a Short the creator has deleted returns an error. If the link came from a messaging app, make sure it was not cut off – it should end with the 11-character video ID that follows youtube.com/shorts/.
Shorts are handled one link at a time, but each one takes only seconds. If the Shorts belong to a public playlist, paste the playlist link and Y-Download lists up to 500 videos with an individual download button next to each, so you can work through them without re-pasting.
Download only Shorts you are allowed to keep: your own uploads, clips released under a permissive license such as Creative Commons, or videos whose creator has given you permission. Reposting someone else's Short without permission infringes their copyright and breaks YouTube's terms, even with credit. Y-Download provides the tool; you are responsible for how you use it.