How it works
Drop the URL of any YouTube playlist or channel into the input above (or right here: paste it on the homepage). We list every video with thumbnails and durations, you tick the ones you want, pick a quality, and click Download.
Your browser pops a folder picker — choose where files should land — and the batch starts. Each video downloads sequentially (or 3 at a time on Plus), with per-item progress. Failed videos don’t kill the run; we mark them and keep going.
What works
- Public playlists — your own playlists, somebody else’s playlists, “Music for studying” type curated lists. Anything with a
?list=PL...URL. - Channel uploads — paste
youtube.com/@channelnameand we’ll list the uploads tab. Up to 200 most-recent videos in one go. - Watch URLs with a list parameter — when you paste a video that’s inside a playlist, we’ll offer to grab the playlist instead.
- Mixed quality — pick the best available, cap at 1080p / 720p / 480p / 360p, or audio-only (m4a). One setting applies to the whole batch; videos that don’t have your exact pick fall back to the closest match.
Common use cases
- Lecture series & courses — grab every episode of a playlist for offline study. Audio-only for commutes, 720p for an iPad.
- Conference talks — most conferences post the full year as one playlist. One folder, you’re done.
- Channel archives — when a creator’s channel is at risk of being taken down, archive the uploads. Up to 200 most-recent videos per batch on Plus.
- Music albums uploaded as playlists — many artists post full albums track-by-track in a playlist. Audio only + your music folder = done.
- Podcasts that publish on YouTube — same workflow: audio-only, batch the channel uploads, sync the folder to your phone.
Limits and quality
Free batch caps at 25 videos per run, downloaded one at a time. Plus lifts that to 200 with up to 3 parallel downloads — typical 1-hour Plus-tier batch (50× 10-minute talks at 720p) finishes in 15-30 minutes depending on your bandwidth.
Output quality matches the source: 4K stays 4K, 1080p stays 1080p. We don’t re-encode for the standard batch path — video and audio streams are merged in your browser straight to disk. (Silence-removal mode does re-encode by design, but that’s a per-video flag, not the default.)
Privacy & safety
Your playlist URL hits our metadata endpoint to list the videos; from then on every download is browser-to-CDN. We don’t store the files, scan their contents, or keep a log of what you grabbed. The list of items you saw stays in your tab — close it and the server forgets.
We respect YouTube’s rate limits — running the batch aggressively can trigger them, so paying users get the parallel lane (3 at a time) which we’ve tuned to stay under YouTube’s observed thresholds.