YouTube Video Downloader
Paste a YouTube link and keep the video: at the quality you pick, as audio, or a whole playlist at once. Vidferry runs entirely on your Mac or PC, with no ads and nothing sent anywhere.
- MP4 video
- MP3 or M4A audio
- Whole playlists and channels
- Best, 1080p, 720p, 480p
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Everything you need to download YouTube.
One paste, and it’s yours, at the quality and format you want.
Download YouTube in the quality you want
Pick Best for the highest the source has, or drop to 1080p, 720p, or 480p to save space. You get an MP4 that plays anywhere.
Pull just the audio
Save any YouTube video as an MP3 or M4A and skip the video entirely.
Grab a whole playlist
Paste a playlist or a channel and Vidferry lists the videos, then downloads them one after another.
Private and on your machine
It all runs locally. No account, no ads, no telemetry. What you pull from YouTube stays yours.
A YouTube downloader that keeps your files yours
Most “YouTube downloaders” are a website covered in ads that watches what you paste and caps you at 720p until you pay. Vidferry works the other way around. It’s a small app that runs on your Mac or PC: you paste a link, it reads the available formats, and it saves the file to a folder you choose. Nothing you download is logged, uploaded, or sold, and there’s no account to create.
Every link is handled on your machine, so the usual things just work: regular videos, Shorts, past live streams, playlists, and channels. YouTube often hands over the video and audio as separate streams. Vidferry merges them back into a single MP4 (H.264 video, AAC audio), so the file opens in QuickTime or anything else, with sound.
Quality and formats
Pick Best to get the highest the source has, or drop to 1080p, 720p, or 480p when you want a smaller file. Only want the sound? Save it as an MP3 or M4A and skip the video.
Signed in? It can ferry that too
Some videos only play when you’re logged in, like age-restricted clips or a channel’s members-only uploads. In Settings, point Vidferry at the browser you already watch YouTube in, and it borrows that browser’s cookies to fetch them. The cookies stay on your machine. Vidferry won’t get past paywalls or reach anything you can’t already watch yourself.
How to download YouTube videos
Three steps, about a minute. No setup, no sign-up.
- 1
Copy the YouTube link
Copy the URL from the address bar or the Share button. Videos, Shorts, playlists, and channels all work.
- 2
Pick quality and format
Choose Best, 1080p, 720p, or 480p, or switch to MP3 or M4A for just the audio.
- 3
Ferry it over
Hit download. High-quality streams come back merged into one MP4, sound included.
YouTube downloader FAQ
Saving videos you own, your own uploads, or clips in the public domain is generally fine, along with anything YouTube offers for offline use. Past that, copyright and YouTube's Terms still apply. Vidferry is for keeping things you have the right to keep, not for republishing someone else's work.
Choose Best to get the highest the source has, or drop to 1080p, 720p, or 480p for a smaller file. Vidferry merges the video and audio into one MP4.
Paste the link, switch the format to MP3 (or M4A), and download. Vidferry pulls the audio out and skips the video.
Yes. Paste a playlist or channel URL and Vidferry lists the videos, then downloads them one after another into the folder you pick.
For anything you can already watch while signed in, open Settings and point Vidferry at the browser you use for YouTube. It borrows that browser's cookies to fetch the video, and the cookies stay on your machine. It won't get past paywalls or reach videos you can't already watch.
Yes. A Shorts link works like any other. Paste it, pick a quality, and download.
Ready to ferry?
Paste your first link in under a minute. $12 once, yours to keep, on Mac and PC.