ClipGrab and WinX/MacX are the best free tools for YouTube downloads. YouTube Premium offers legal, ad-free downloads tied to your account. Be mindful of copyright laws and only download videos that ...

YouTube now hosts over 5 billion videos, with the equivalent of 500 hours of content uploaded every minute. Perhaps that's why YouTube is surpassing both Netflix ...

YouTube does allow you to download videos, but only through YouTube Premium officially — and only if the creator permits it. Whatever videos you try to download ...

You’ve probably done it at least once. Maybe you wanted to save a cooking tutorial before a long flight, or keep a lectu ...

Sure, it’s easy to download videos from YouTube, but doing it legally is another proposition. While there’s no law that specifically says you can’t download ...

If you're in for a long flight or headed somewhere without an internet connection, you may want to download a few videos. And while it's easier to download Netflix videos than ones on YouTube, the ...

In this time of ubiquitous internet and abundance of content, downloading videos to your hard drive is rarely necessary. But sometimes, an important video can be hard to find, or can even be ...

There are plenty of reasons people want to download videos from YouTube and other video platforms. Maybe you’re traveling and don’t want to rely on spotty Wi-Fi. Maybe you want to save a long tutorial ...

When I reviewed the video player IINA (see “Prepare for Apple Dropping Old Media Formats with the IINA Video Player,” 6 May 2019), quite a few TidBITS readers took it as an opportunity to vent their ...

YouTube might be a streaming-first video platform, but you can download YouTube videos, too. You can even download them for free with the right software, although ...