Сохраните превью любого видео YouTube в HD 1280×720 или в одном из четырёх меньших размеров в формате JPG. Бесплатно и мгновенно.
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Open the video on YouTube and copy its URL, or use Share → Copy link in the app. Regular videos, Shorts and youtu.be short links all work – anything that contains the 11-character video id.
Paste it into the box above. Y-Download fetches the video details and shows the thumbnail in every available size, from HD 1280×720 down to 120×90, so you can compare them before saving.
Click Download under the size you want. The image is saved as a JPG with the video's title as the filename, so it is easy to find later. If the HD version does not exist, the largest available size is offered instead.
Get the maxresdefault image at its full 1280×720 resolution whenever YouTube has it – the same custom thumbnail the creator uploaded, with no upscaling or re-compression on our side.
Preview all five sizes side by side – 1280×720, 640×480, 480×360, 320×180 and 120×90 – and pick the one that fits your layout instead of resizing by hand.
Videos without an HD thumbnail are common. Y-Download detects the missing size and offers the next largest one, so you never end up with a grey placeholder.
Files are saved as JPG and named after the video title rather than 'maxresdefault.jpg', which matters as soon as you save more than one.
Get YouTube thumbnails from your phone or desktop with nothing to install. On iPhone the image is saved to the Files app; on Android to your Downloads folder.
No account, no watermark, no daily cap. Download one thumbnail or a hundred, for your own channel or for research.
Every YouTube video has a set of thumbnail images stored at fixed addresses, and this YouTube thumbnail downloader shows you all of them. Paste a video link into Y-Download and within a couple of seconds you will see the thumbnail in up to five sizes – the full HD 1280×720 image, 640×480, 480×360, 320×180 and the tiny 120×90 version – each with a preview and a Download button. Pick the one you need and it is saved as a JPG file named after the video, not as a cryptic string of letters.
The HD image, known as maxresdefault, is the one most people want: the creator's custom thumbnail at its full 1280×720 resolution. Not every video has one – older uploads and some low-resolution videos stop at 640×480 or 480×360 – so Y-Download checks and automatically offers the largest size that exists instead of handing you a broken link or a grey placeholder. The smaller versions are useful when you need a lightweight image for a blog post, a link preview, a thumbnail grid or a slide.
Creators use this thumbnail grabber to check how their own artwork looks at each size, or to recover an image they no longer have on disk. Designers and marketers pull references, editors grab a still for a presentation, and teachers drop video previews into course materials. There is no watermark, no account and no limit, and it works in any browser on phone or desktop. One thing to keep in mind: thumbnails are copyrighted by their creators, so use other people's images only with permission.
The full-resolution thumbnail, 16:9, and the only size that shows the creator's custom image at its true quality. Best for presentations, blog headers, video reviews and social posts. Not every video has one; it is missing on many older uploads and some low-resolution videos.
A 4:3 frame that contains the 16:9 image with black bars above and below. Available for most videos and a good compromise when the HD image is missing or when you need something lighter for a web page.
Exists for practically every video, also letterboxed to 4:3. It is what many third-party sites and link previews use, so it is a safe fallback for embeds and thumbnail grids.
mqdefault is a true 16:9 image with no black bars, ideal for small cards and lists. default is the 120×90 icon YouTube uses in its own sidebar and suggestions. Both are tiny files that load instantly.
Copy the video link, paste it into Y-Download and click Download under the size you want. The thumbnail is saved as a JPG named after the video. It works for regular videos, Shorts and youtu.be links, on phone or desktop, with no account.
The recommended upload size is 1280×720 pixels (16:9, under 2 MB), and that is the size of the HD thumbnail (maxresdefault) YouTube stores. YouTube also generates 640×480, 480×360, 320×180 and 120×90 versions, which Y-Download lets you download individually.
YouTube generates the 1280×720 maxresdefault image only for some videos – generally newer uploads in HD or those with a custom thumbnail – and many older or low-resolution videos never got one. In that case Y-Download automatically offers the largest size that does exist, usually 640×480 or 480×360.
Yes. Paste the Shorts link and the thumbnails are listed as usual. YouTube stores Shorts thumbnails in the same landscape frames, so a vertical video usually appears with black bars on the sides in the 1280×720 image.
Yes. Y-Download saves the JPG file YouTube serves at each size – nothing is re-compressed, upscaled or watermarked. The 1280×720 image is the best quality YouTube stores for that video.
Publish the video, paste its link here and compare the 320×180 and 120×90 versions. That is roughly how your thumbnail appears in the suggested-videos sidebar and on phones, so if the text is unreadable there, it is worth simplifying the design.
Yes. Open the page in Safari or Chrome, paste the link and tap Download under a size. On iPhone the JPG goes to the Files app, from where you can save it to Photos; on Android it lands in Downloads. Nothing to install.
Thumbnails are copyrighted by the people who created them, just like the video. You may freely use thumbnails from your own videos, from content released under a permissive license such as Creative Commons, or with the creator's permission. Using someone else's thumbnail in your own upload, article or ad without permission may be copyright infringement.