If it turns out that you have to take a long trip by car or plane and you want YouTube content to be stored on your mobile device or Mac computer to play it in mode offline, you should know that there are programs that will facilitate their download and management.
Before you begin, it should be noted that you should pay attention to copyright issues. Therefore, you should not download someone else's video and, for example, upload it to your YouTube channel or use it to promote your business.
You should also be aware that downloading YouTube videos is against YouTube's Terms of Service. The company makes this clear.
Next, we'll see some solutions for downloading YouTube videos to your Mac, regardless of the version of your computer program or the type of Mac computer you're using.
YouTube premium
- 1 month free. After, € 11.99 per month
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As you may know, YouTube offers its service to broadcast known as YouTube Premium, which lets you download videos on YouTube. This service has a monthly price of € 11.99 per month.
What benefits does the YouTube Premium offer? Of course, in addition to being able to download videos of any kind, you can also block ads, listen to YouTube Music Premium (and Google Play Music). You can also see YouTube realities, including movies and series only available for subscription payment.
However, if you were expected to be able to download the video and save it to your Mac, you will feel frustrated because YouTube Premium only allows subscribers to download videos and music on mobile devices, and will only be available for offline viewing mode for 30 days.
Therefore, this may be the most legitimate way to download videos on YouTube. But if you don't want to pay € 143.88 a year, there are some solutions, some free and some paid. Let's see them clearly.
YouTube's best Mac downloads
There are many tools that provide the ability to save YouTube videos to Mac. Some of these options are free, while others are paid for. In our experience, loose ends tend to be more problematic to use and carry certain risks.
For example, if you see a warning that you need to install Flash video management, it may be a batch or, in the worst case, malware that tries to spy on you or control your computer.
Fortunately there are a few ways you can download YouTube videos for free software that comes with your Mac. And surprisingly, you won't need to download the app.
MacOS Mojave: Command + Shift + 5
- It's free
- Get macOS Mojave
You may not know that MacOS Mojave has its own built-in recording function and, as part of the app, it's free to use and won't cost you.
This can be a solution for you if you don't really need the sound because you will not record the sound or because you only have pictures.
- Press Command + Shift + 5.
- Click & # 39; Record the selected part & # 39;
- Drag the view to select a video
- Click & # 39; Record & # 39;
- Now start playing the video
- Wait for it to finish and get ready for the video
- Stop recording screen (you'll find the stop button in the menu at the top of the screen).
Quick player
Before Apple integrates screen recording tools and screen capture tools into macOS, Mojave publishing users can use QuickTime to record a screen on a Mac.
QuickTime can still be used in this way, at least for now. Without fail.
- Open QuickTIme Player (press Command + Space and start typing QuickTime).
- Go to the top menu of the screen and select & # 39; File> New Screen Recording & # 39;
- A window will appear for the & # 39; Screen Recording & # 39; Before moving on to the next step, click the arrow below the red button and make sure the internal microphone is selected.
- Click the red button.
- Below, you'll see instructions that tell you how to click fullscreen recording or drag the part of the screen to drag.
- Now click & # 39; Record & # 39;
- Start playing a YouTube video (make sure the audio is active).
- When a YouTube video is played, you can click the stop button in the menu at the top of the screen.
- The video will be open for review before you save it.
This is undoubtedly the best way to record from YouTube on your Mac. However, a short video can take up a lot of space on your Mac, and it's obviously worth the wait while the whole video is playing.
How to download videos from YouTube
There are other solutions that will download a YouTube video, instead of recording your Mac screen while the video is playing on the screen. This way, your Mac won't play while recording.
As we mentioned earlier, we do not recommend free solutions, especially since there is already a free solution on Mac, and we are not sure about the money you will pay if you want to download and use it.
YouTubeDownloader
YouTubeDownloader is priced at € 8.99 per activation code, with the incentive that students can get a 35% discount, as well as the opportunity to get a free trial period to see if it meets your needs.
It looks like a browser and redirects you to the YouTube homepage. Then browse the site normally, except there is now a large download button next to the URL.
Click on it if you're in the video you want to download (or the video with the URL you pasted in the address bar). We found it easy to use YouTubeDownloader and the best downloads were standard.
In fact, it is possible to select download quality). The only thing that comes back, in fact, is that it is not free beyond the terms of the trial version.
Parallels ToolBox
- Price: € 19.99 per year. 7 day of trial
- Go inside Similarity
From the base when you get it software for a company called Parallels, it means you won't have any problems with advertising or installation software aggressive, in fact, the program contributes significantly to lower annual costs.
In fact, Parallels gives you an additional 30 useful tools that you can use with your Mac to perform simple tasks such as screen, change screen resolution, find duplicate files, or keep your Mac cool so that it can work properly.
ToolBox is a result of listening to everything that users want, offering useful tools that you can install on your computer or Mac.
- Once you have downloaded and installed the Toolbox for similar tools, you will see the toolbox icon in the menu located at the top of the screen. Click
- You will see a series of tools including Flight mode, free memory, Do Not Disturb, Make GIF and Upload a video. Click & # 39; Download video & # 39;
- Toolbox will tell you that you need to enable Safari extension to download videos. Click & # 39; Enable & # 39 ;.
- Now the & # 39; Download Video & # 39; it will open on your screen. Just copy and paste the YouTube video URL into the box, or simply drag it. An arrow will indicate the video is downloaded and a detail box will appear, to see how to download it.
- Once the download is complete, you'll find a video file in your & # 39; Downloads & # 39; folder.
The file will be saved as a video in MPEG4 format. It will open and play with QuickTime available and supported by your Mac.
So, if you're looking for an easy way to download a video to your iPad or iPhone, the solution would be to copy the video to iCloud to access it in the Files of the running operating system. You can download or play it whenever you want.
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