yt-dlp
Everything filed under this tag: the 20 downloaders we test, the 12 platforms they reach, and the lists that cut them down by price, feature and situation. Pick a route below and you land on something already filtered — no hunting through the tool library by hand.
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YouTube
Stacher video downloader
A GUI for yt-dlp, free and happy with batches. Supported sites: whatever yt-dlp handles, 1,800+.
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YouTube
Seal video downloader
A yt-dlp front end for Android, open source. Supported sites: whatever yt-dlp handles, 1,800+.
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TikTok
Pamgoma Video Downloader
One extension covering five social platforms. Supported sites: TikTok, IG, X, Facebook, Pinterest.
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Vimeo
Free Vimeo Downloader
Vimeo only, third-party embedded players included. Supported sites: Vimeo (embeds included).
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Blogs
New yt-dlp release: TikTok watermark-free parsing fixed, 12 more sites added
Three things that matter to you directly: TikTok watermark-free works again; 12 new sites supported; playlist paging reworked(very long lists no longer get cut off partway). Stacher and Seal users don
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SaveFrom.net vs. yt-dlp
This is a straight difference table, built for a fast decision. For the long version with test data and a verdict, head to the in-depth review.
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YouTube
yt-dlp video downloader
Open-source command line, the ceiling for site coverage. Supported sites: 1,800+.
Recommended video downloaders
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YouTube video downloaders
The platform every tool claims to handle, and the one that changes its player most often. 10 of the 20 hold up, with yt-dlp, 4K Video Downloader Plus and Stacher out front.
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TikTok video downloaders
The watermark is the whole question here. 10 tools reach TikTok, but only some of them return a clean file rather than the branded re-encode.
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Instagram video downloaders
Reels, stories and carousels each behave differently, and anything private needs a signed-in session. That rules out most web tools straight away.
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Pinterest video downloaders
Mostly an image problem rather than a video one: the masonry grid serves thumbnails, so the job is getting the original resolution, ideally a whole board at once.
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X (Twitter) video downloaders
Video and images sit behind an API that keeps tightening. The tools that still work read the page you are looking at rather than calling the API.
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Facebook video downloaders
Public posts, Reels and Watch are three separate cases, and group content needs a session. 11 tools get there, with a wide spread in what quality they return.
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LinkedIn video downloaders
The thinnest field on the site: 3 tools, all of them yt-dlp or a front end for it. Feed posts work, Learning courses mostly do not.
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Reddit video downloaders
Reddit splits audio and video into separate streams, so the real test is whether a tool muxes them back. 4 do; the rest hand you a silent clip.
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Vimeo video downloaders
Public videos are straightforward. Password-protected and domain-locked embeds are where tools part ways, and where most of them stop.
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Bilibili video downloaders
Separate audio and video streams plus multi-part videos, which general-purpose tools routinely get wrong. 5 handle it; a dedicated extension handles it best.
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VK video downloaders
Wide coverage on paper, patchy in practice: region blocks and a login wall cut the list down. 8 tools work, and two of them need a session cookie.
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Dailymotion video downloaders
The quiet one: no watermark, no stream splitting, few surprises. 9 tools cover it, so the choice comes down to how you want to run them.