One Step Closer to Best YouTube Downloader

How Many Sites Do These YouTube Downloader Tools Support
Which YouTube video downloader gives you more choices on the supported video streaming sites? Let's check it. MacX Video Converter Pro downloads videos from more than 300 sites, incl. hd movie sites, top anime sites, music sites, etc, 4K Video Downloader supports 6 major sites, YTD Video Downloader provides options for 60 more, ClipConverter supports only supports 9 and Savefrom.net 40 more.

All five YouTube video downloaders will perform the YouTube downloading well as intended. But obviously, if you want a video downloader to download videos from Facebook, Vimeo, or other sites other than YouTube, MacX Video Converter Pro is a better choice.

Best YouTube Downlaoder Shall Have Rish Input and Output Options
Desktop YouTube downloaders have a couple of advantages over online helpers, and the first is that they provide more choices on the file types that you can save the downloaded YouTube videos to. Among the three YouTube download software, MacX Video Converter Pro has a genuine advantage by sheer numbers.

To be specific, MacX Video Converter Pro allows you to download YouTube videos in massive resolutions and formats, ones compatible with iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, iPad, or other mobiles for example. 4K Video Downloader supports 7 main digital formats and YTD Video Downloader offers several mainstream files. Besides, MacX Video Converter Pro, 4K Video Downloader and ClipConverter show the best compatibility with 4K UHD YouTube clips.

Which Tool Ensures the Fastest YouTube Download Speed
As to the speed, we tested on 720P, 1080P and 4K. For HD videos, all finish the job with fast speed except ClipConverter, which is slower due to the conversion. For a 720P 4min 26s MP4 video, MacX downloaded in 25s with an average speed of 1560.58kb/s, next come Savefrom (32s, 1219.2kb/s), YTD (48s 812.8kb/s) and 4k video downloader (50s), and the last is ClipConverter, which used 1min 20s to finish the job.

The speed differences expand with 4K videos. According to our test, there's no 4K output option with YTD and Savefrom supports 4K download without audio. MacX took an acceptable period of time (4.8 mins) to download a 5min 8s 4K 60fps video (675MB), while 4K Video Downloader used 4.9 mins and ClipConverter stuck in the middle.

Note: You should know that the YouTube video downloading speed relies heavily on your computer config & internet bandwidth.

A Good YouTube Offline Downloader Gets Videos Downloaded the Same as Original
There is not much difference in the downloaded video quality for YouTube videos in SD or HD 720P. However, the crisper the YouTube source video is, the greater the differences are. To be specific, 4K Video Downloader provides up to 4K UHD; YTD Video Downloader can download 8K, 5K, 4K, 2K, and 3D videos, but can only output to 1080P videos; clipconverter.cc, set aside the downloading speed, offers 8K and 4K output options; Savefrom.net supports 720P video output, as well as 4K/1080P YouTube download without audio; MacX Video Converter Pro has the ability to download YouTube videos in 4K, 5K and full UHD 8K.

In this section, we list MacX as the top YouTube downloader, not only it manages to output file with crisper image but also it makes good compatibility with Mac's latest OS, including El Capitan and macOS Sierra.

Is the Video Downloader Easy to Use
MacX Video Converter Pro has a simple and intuitive interface. It's recent UI update makes the YouTube downloader even more sleek and modernized. Its layout clearly indicates the YTB video download options, where to start and how to convert. Plus, it makes it easier with batch download and automatic detection ability; ClipConverter is easy to use and nice to look at. It pleasantly lists all the options that you can choose for the download.

The interface of 4K Video Downloader is quite plain; both YTD Video Downloader and Savefrom.net are easy to navigate, while the former comes with some ads and the buttons on the latter site is confusing and tricky.

Is Your YouTube Downloader Safe
Getting computer infected with unwanted virus or installs is the least thing users want when downloading videos from YouTube. Unfortunately, not all downloaders which claim to be 100% safe are that reliable. With the two online YouTube downloaders, you may get frustrated with the popups, redirects and some browsers addons, which however won't do substantial harm to computer.

YTD Video Downloader is said to contain virus and Trojan and has received many complaints about the virus and unwanted extensions that are hard to remove. Be careful to uncheck the box when install the software. 4K Video Downloader is overall safe in our test but the free version is ad-supported. The best software that's 100% clean is MacX Video Converter Pro. We quickly install and easily remove the YouTube downloader with no problem, except one fact, that its product website pops up when open the software.