About
A small tool, made on purpose.
vidpickr is a video downloader that doesn’t try to be anything else. No newsletter modal. No “sign up for premium.” No 14 ads stacked on top of each other. Just paste a YouTube link and get a file.
What it does
Resolves direct video URLs from YouTube, streams them through our server in tiny chunks, and—when you ask for adaptive quality—muxes the audio and video together with ffmpeg on the fly. The file lands on your hard drive. That’s the whole pitch.
What it refuses to do
Hold your video in memory while it tells you to subscribe. Track which links you’ve pasted. Email you about “premium plans.” Lock 4K behind a paywall. Care which browser you use.
Who pays for it
Right now: us. The server is small, ffmpeg is free, and most of the heavy lifting happens on your machine. If it grows, we’ll keep an open tip jar—but the tool will always be free to use.