How it works

A plain explanation of what happens to a link you paste, written for people who would rather know than trust.

From link to file, step by step

1. We check the link. Before anything goes over the network, we check that the link belongs to a supported site and points to a single post. Paid courses, private content and links to unsupported sites stop here, with the reason. For YouTube, a channel name or @handle is looked up as a channel.
2. We read the public post. Our server opens the post the way a logged-out visitor would and reads the list of video files the platform offers. We use yt-dlp, the open-source tool that most serious downloaders are built on.
3. We pick the useful options. A platform often offers 10 to 30 versions of one video. Some have no sound, some are duplicates, and one on TikTok has the logo overlay. We keep the best version at each size and drop the rest.
4. You choose, and we prepare the file. When a platform stores picture and sound separately, as Reddit does, we join them into one MP4 without re-encoding either. For MP3, we convert the sound track.
5. The file is sent, then deleted. It goes to your browser as a normal download. The temporary copy is kept for about an hour, so you can save it again or as a ZIP, and is then removed.

Our promises, and how to check them

• One download button. Every button on a result is labelled with the file it gives you. Nothing else on the page downloads anything.
• No popups, new tabs or redirects. Pressing Download never opens another window. You can check this with any popup blocker turned off.
• No notification prompts. We never ask for permission to send you notifications.
• Nothing to install. No app, no APK, no extension.
• Honest quality labels. We list the sizes the platform stores. We do not upscale, and we do not put 4K on a 720p file.

Limits

To keep the service free and fast for everyone, one connection can read about 15 links a minute, videos can be up to three hours long and about 1 GB in size, and each download button works for 30 minutes. Live streams cannot be downloaded while they are live.

YouTube: videos, channels and transcripts

For YouTube you can paste a video or Shorts link, or type a channel's name or @handle to list its videos, Shorts or past live streams and download many at once. Bulk downloads run two at a time, each with its own progress bar, and finished files can be saved one by one or as a single ZIP. Transcripts come from the video's captions and are cleaned of the repeated lines that automatic captions contain.

YouTube's terms allow downloading only through its own features. Use this for your own videos, or for videos you have permission to use, and never republish someone else's work.

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Last reviewed 2026-10-04.